Pizza off the back of a truck – Vocabulary
Today I saw this truck selling pizza from a wood fired oven and had to find an excuse to post the image, so here we have it, a list of a words that all mean pizza.
This truck turned up on the corner of the road near my flat in Taiwan, and within minutes there was a huge crowd around the truck. All the other vendors could do was look on as the pizza seller raked in a minimum of $150NT (£3UK/$5US) per sale. For the record the Pizza wasn’t half bad either 
Regardless of which Chinese word is used to translate pizza, the word ‘pizza’ is seemingly understood everywhere and you might not even have a chance or need to say the Chinese. But for those times when you are reading a menu and want to find the pizza, here are the words you’ll see used:
For completeness the words before pizza in the image above are 窯（窑 yáo） which is a kiln oven and 烤（烤 kǎo） which is to bake – “kiln oven baked”.
If you know of any other words for pizza, or have seen 批薩（批萨）and 匹薩（匹萨）is use somewhere the post in the comments below!
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Dave Flynn
Dave is a designer of websites, learner of Chinese and lover of technology. Originally from the UK , he's been living in Taiwan and learning Mandarin Chinese for the last four years. He founded and runs Chinese Hacks, a blog dedicated to effectively learning Chinese.
2 Comments
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hey dave!
I believe that NY Pizza in SinTian rd was using 批薩 as the chinese translation when they first opened up, and consequently this is the form that I have mostly used since when talking about pizza.
The place has changed ownership since so i’m not sure whether this has also changed
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感谢TVBS新闻报道,家香.平价,烘烤披薩
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