What's with the pizzas here in Kunming? Every pizza I've had thus far they don't seem to like to put tomato sauce under the cheese. I try to tell my Chinese friends that when you look under the cheese you should be seeing red and not the dough. The looked back at me with puzzlement.

I'm desperate now, all I ask for is a place where they actually use tomato sauce, it doesn't even have to be that good. Does such a place exist?

Try aordering Pizza Margherita and see if that comes with toms.

where have you been so far. people then can recommend other places.

You must be American or Canadian. The rest of the world isn't big on pizza sauce. In Italy, a pepperoni pizza doesn't even exist. You might have to order pizza marinara to get what you want, or Metro will sell you a big bag of pizza sauce, or there is always Papa Johns/Pizza Hut. Though not every pizza even at those two American places will use pizza sauce, or a lot of it.

Lost Garden:
www.gokunming.com/[...]

near Green Lake and the Green Lake Hotel but quite hard to find!

maybe you can ask them for extra sauce but they put enough for most tastes.

As Tiger says, tell us where you've tried and we might be able to suggest somewhere else.

I tried Papa John's downtown and it was pretty good. Pizza Hut depends on the location. The one at Fortune Center is quite good, while the one downtown in the walking street sucks big time.

I did like Slice of Heaven and there was another little place (don't know the name) out by the pagodas that had sauce with real flavor.

As for who likes sauce - My Italian neighbors back in Toronto liked white pizza (oil and rosemary), while my Italian first wife liked double sauce!

@AlPage
That last bit sounds a bit saucy.

I've heard Slice of Heaven makes a pretty good pizza, too. Thanks, Alpage48. I also have heard that that As You Like It does a good one and Lost Garden makes the best wood-fired pizza, bar none. Or you could work on developing a taste for Chinese 'shui guo pisa'.

How are the pizzas at Slice of Heaven prepared? Are they thick or thin crust?

How about Theresa's Pizza on Wenlin Jie? I haven't tried - but have been meaning to drop by (for the last 3 years).

300 gms of dough in a 30 cm pan - somewhere in between.