It's really nice that you enjoyed the poor weather half year in the Netherlands so much 😁 Just wait for when the sun comes out and everyone flocks to terrasjes, beaches and festivals 🌅
I spent a short few months in the US and I absolutely missed my bread and cheese, my sense of safety, my ability to go somewhere without a car, and people being more genuine. So yeah, great list.
Fairytale towns. You haven't seen fairytale until you have been to these two places. It might be a bit touristic though. 1. Bruges, Belgium. 2. Efteling. This is a fairytale theme park in the Netherlands. Rumors suggest Walt Disney visited this park to get inspiration for building Disney Land. What inspired him? Go there and find out!
Suriname has a very diverse population due to the Dutch trade (and enslavement) efforts in the Golden Age. So, their cuisine is a mix of Dutch, African, Indonesian and Chinese.
Go to the city of Venlo ( limburg ) on the 18 of februari and visit the carnaval there, is incredeble !! The hole town is filed with people in differend costums !! SUPER NICE !!
I am Dutch and I think my people are rude. I don't like them. I like the cycle paths. I am emigrating to SE Asia in July for the 2nd time. Lived there for 11 years and I miss it.
Why not about Dutch culture (arts, dance, music, places to go, fairs and event) and not food culture or Dutch commerce? ( I haven’t seen your vid about Glow yet ) Hopefully you will cover more about other things about the Netherlands to balance things. Good that you enjoy your time with the Dutch and its public transport
pretty much all Chinese restaurants in the netherlands are Chinese-Indonesia restaurants. got to do with our colonization of Indonesia. so its kind of a mix. most of the products you find in the Chinese stores (afhaal chinees as we call it in dutch Take away chinese) sell products that you cant find in china period. most of the stuff is not chinese nor Indonesian. its mostly some sort of dutch creation. But we do have real authentic chinese restaurants though Rotterdam and amsterdam got a couple i believe. we also have a Cantonese Restaurant not sure where that one is located. but the normal Afhaal Chinees stores/restaurants are not authentic chinese.
thanks for your compliments haha, nice video. maybe you can try something else in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is famous for its many festivals. in particular the house parties such as mysteryland, decibel, defqon one, awakenings, etc. i am so curious what an american thinks about this. keep up the good work!
Its great to hear the things you like, in one of your previous videos you said you do not like dutch ketchup (heinz), which i agree with so i have a tip. Always buy ketchup at IKEA, yes really they have 50% less sugar or so and every time i go there i always buy a couple, don't forget the frozen meat balls (bordeau rode zak) its great stuff when low in groceries ammo. Some time back i have seen the video regarding MRE, when shit goes down in case of conflict I recommend "Coertjens | Chili Con Carne" I always buy a few cans(blik) when at the Makro but you can buy them online to, It goes well with dutch knakworstjes and some olive oil but thats just my personal opinon, cheers guys have a good one
@@Blackadder75 There are three different HUVUDROLL meatballs, plant-based, chicken and air fryer. I like the Airfryer edition bc It's great food to have at home just in case, they also have other stuff like Swedish fish sticks, it's something else I dig it.
Please try bread from a bakery, instead of a supermarket, it is usually much more tasty. And buy cheese on the market or in a cheese store. You are so right about the surinamese food, also indonesien food is part of the (aquired) dutch culture and because of the intricate history of these parts of the world, chinese food is very much in favour here too. I am happy to hear that you feel safe, that's an important issue.
The problem with the sliced cheese is not their quality, they are above average, and pretty tasty. Its their price. Just like sliced up anything, if you buy the raw-deal, you get more bang for your buck. MUCH more. Also: the cheeses in grocery stores are meh to pretty good, but the cheeses in specialty cheese shops are INSANEly good (and a bit more expensive: but worth it). They have dozens upon dozens of types. Old, young, with added spices, with or without holes, from all different places (different place=different soil=different grass=different cheese taste). Make it a day out: go to a good cheese shop with 40 euro, and let yourself be treated to the finest cheeses in town. They will let you taste a lot (if you buy afterwards, if you dont buy, the tasting is over pretty quick, haha)
Hahaha, I noticed that too. Fruit without seeds is really "weird". No seed, means as much as genetically modified. No seed, no new plant. As simple as that.
I sort of expected you to address financial safety, esecpially if you get sick. You don't go bankrupt because you got huge medical bills. You just pay your 'eigen risico' (about 400 to 1000 euros) and that is it.
that’s mostly how health care works in the US too. the difference is that insurance can be costly and many people are uninsured or underinsured, which is where the medical debt or bankruptcy comes into play. most insurance in the US has a “deductible” which is the “eigen risico” and costs above it are fully covered. the biggest difference is health insurance is SIGNIFICANTLY more affordable in the netherlands, the eigen risico is much lower (our deductible in the US, shared between michelle and i, was like $3000, i believe), and its mandatory.
The Netherlands is safe and Japan is spastically twice safer. Did you felt safer in Japan? My wife and I, we went for a short stay in the Netherlands for the country and also for the spa culture. You really should try it. We went to "SpaOne" near Breda. Around Rotterdam, we considered "Thermen Barendrecht", I would love to get your feedback on it.
oh yes, we feel incredibly safe in japan. at pretty much any hour too. we haven’t done the sauna/spa thing in the netherlands yet, but we did try it in berlin and we really enjoyed it. we’re looking forward to exploring the places here soon!
Walking without being worn out means that in the US you walk and there's cars and concrete eveywhere. Well you can't walk 800m without driving it tbh. In NL is just so much nicer.
i’m dutch and moved to france. if you think the dutch food is tasty in the grocery store, come to france and its a whole next level. I would not by any food in the dutch supermarket again. and the bread is bad in the netherlands..really bad. and i’m dutch.
Nice video, however... It's called "Surinaams", not "Surinamees" 😊 I was a little shocked however that you thought Rotterdam was a safe place to live, it is actually one of the major cities with a very high crime rate. That being said, just imagine how unsafe it was where you lived before 😮
oh big no no peanutbutter has to be calve peanutbutter no store brand do the "hagelslag" on top of the peanutbutter slap 2 slices of bread together better then peanut and jelly??
US citizens love the Netherlands because it's the most similar country in Europe. But than it's also so Europy, btw the Dutch food culture is really not that good, says a lot about the US.
Im from Sweden and i LOVE the netherlands, people are more social and loving and caring. They are chill af and so kind! In sweden everyone is so grumpy and antisocial and depressed because of the weather and the culturale mix sweden doesnt have. Netherlands is all love and a bit better weather than sweden but that makes a big difference for a swede like me
Im Dutch and I love Sweden, I've been there 4 times and im only 18. I do get what you're saying about people seeming a bit depressed sometimes. Stunningly beautiful nature though!
A friend of mine lived a couple of years in Sweden. She told me they are more focused on family. It was hard to become friends. The neighbors were surprised when invited for a cup of coffee.
I’m Dutch, moved to Canada in 1968. I’m still homesick, but moved to Canada because more room for us after the war we didn’t have to many places to live. But yes I will always love my country. So nice to listen to you both. I wish you guys lots of luck. Take care and have fun.
Thanks for another great video. When I lived in the US, I could only stomach potato bread, as it was the least sweetest I could find. As someone who works at the NS it's great to see that trains made it to your top 8!
OMG I am so glad you talk about the bread! There’s a huge difference between American and European breads. In fact, there’s a really good article that just came out about the big difference in European breads and how people find it less invasive into their systems. And it’s because European breads are fermented longer in rising process of the dough. Also, I am loving that you’ve upped the videos and are focusing intently on the Netherlands. It’s my home country, but I’ve been away from it for way too long so it’s nice to see all the things that you were discovering and enjoying. Subscribed!
Nice to hear you enjoyed The Netherlands thus far. Even when you haven't experienced the greatest time of year here; spring is coming with fresh green, blossem and tulips 😊🌷and the whole nation comes out of there houses 😉
hehe and if you're really lucky enough and you can experience the water freezing over, that really gets the whole nation wild ⛸(and always gives me goosebumps as well
Lumpia (loempia) was introduced in the Netherlands from Indonesia, a former colony (and as some of the people of Surinam have ancestors in Indonesia, this is why they too have lumpia) The Dutch had several trading posts/fortresses in Taiwan and encouraged the Chinese from the mainland to permanently settle there. Some of these Chinese took the trip to go to Batavia (now renamed Jakarta). Those Chinese spoke Hokkien, and had a specific name for spring rolls: lunpia, which is how the word got spread to Indonesia, the Netherlands and Surinam.
Something the name suggests is unfortunately not true. Old Amsterdam is not an old cheese. The cheese ripens faster due to a different starter culture. Unfortunately, this makes the cheese taste a lot sweeter than the traditional old cheese.
Another great video. Hopefully you will enjoy your new home for years to come. How about cycling? Done that yet? It’s something I like the most next to the public transport and good infrastructure 👍🏻
What I like about the USA is the nature. In many areas, especially in the mid west, you can drive for long distances without crossing cities and just enjoy the mountains, desert, dunes, forests, lakes and so on. The air is cleaner here and at night you can see there is less light pollution. When parked in the desert or forest I can see that the sky is filled with stars, which wasn’t possible in The Netherlands.
To put that in perspective. If you travel the same distances in Europe you can find spectacular landscapes as well. Europe countries are just as diverse as the US states.
Glad you like it here, seems like you made the right choice! When I worked in the US, safety was something that was _always_ on my mind. Here, I have piece of mind walking the street, which to a Dutch person will probably sound strange or even incomprehensible. Would love to see an update video from time to time. Oh, and with regards to safety, or piece of mind, we also don't just cut your power … E: Oh, and we do have seedless fruit!
The first few seconds I watched your video I had this big smile on my face. It was like watching spoof of all other Americans doing such a video. Michelle was so naughty when Alex started to fiddle with the microfoon. Michelle has this Buffy-the-vampire-high-school-vibe. And the moustache on Alex cracked me up. I could stop watching that thing. But you are serieus and I realized how extremely fluently this video went. Just two people in front of a camera. Did you guy made a script. Amazing. Very professionally done! Not one time you guys were lost for words. No uh's or uh huh's.. Very well done..
As a dutch citizen from Amsterdam i would recommend you guys try out the morrocan cuzine in the west side of amsterdam osdorp its very delicious i think yall would really like it
Old Amsterdam is good tosti cheese, because it's fake. Through some innovation it tastes older than it is, hence the name 'old' which isn't Dutch nor Amsterdam dialect and therefore not legally protected, calling it 'oud' would be a fellony. It's probably the first cheese maker in Amsterdam anyway and they only exist for 2 decades. But not a bad product, just fake marketing. There is proper cheese in the supermarket, in slices too. But the really good cheese is sold in the non tourist cheese shops and at the market, allthough not all market stands and cheese shops are equally good of course, but they'll let you taste.
Suriname food is one of the most populair food in the Netherlands, everybody loves it My favorite is Roti, original from India, but its the most populair Suriname food, you should try it, So good Love the video
Please try the sourdough Bread from Jordy’s Bakery…..first the white, but do try the ‘meergranen desem’…..that is whole wheat sourdough……you will love it!
A typical type of bread is "fries roggebrood". You may not have seen anything quite like it (except perhaps in germany). Its easy to miss as a foreigner because its packaged in a plastic box, oftenly. I recommend trying it if you haven't yet. If you try to eat it, I recommend eating it with butter (no margarine, but actual butter) and one or two slices of belegen gouda cheese. Its very delicious and really fills you up a lot more than the white bread (although that is ofcourse also very delicious!). I really like your video, and im really happy you guys are having a good time in the netherlands! :)
To clarify, that's rye bread. My recommendation would be to put whatever you want on there, put it on a plate and then with a knife carefully slide it off the plate right into the garbage because that shit's just nasty xD
Or sourdough from a good bakery ! More expensive but i’ll like the « elasticity ». You only need 2 slices instead of half a loaf to fill your stomach :) When in a good bakery certainly try a “pain au chocolat”.
Come on Dutchies! Sliced cheese from the supermarket is fine. People saying there is better stuff probably buy it everyday themselves. Btw. I love experimenting with tosti’s. Tosti Katenspek is my new favourite.❤
It's actually terrifying that you say that it's weird fruits have seeds...the fact that you are used to that type of transgenic fruit...so sad for United Statians
If you love the bread, you should buy something more rustic as well, like the liefde en passie breads from the Albert Heijn. Way better than the simple tijgerbrood ❤
It's an interesting list, I love how you're getting to know the Netherlands. The fact that you call bami and nasi surinamese probably also has to do with the fact that you live in Rotterdam, would be much more Indonesian in Den Haag for example. Btw, what's your take on German and Italian bread, since you've been to both? I personally think their bread is much better than dutch bread. Finally... don't talk about Old Amsterdam, it's fake old cheese! They're not allowed to call it "oude kaas", because it's not, they speed up the aging process, so they call it "old" instead, to suggest oldness.
1 food tip, go to a chinese/indonesia restaurant and order a rijsttafel (rice table, you get rice obviously and a large amount of side dishes its absolutely amazing. e njoy
I’m glad that you guys like the Netherlands. Btw are here things in the Netherlands that you guys see here and recognize from hometown? Like American pickup trucks and stuff like that? Btw you guys are awesome
@@buncharted Usually people with pickup trucks have it registered to their company and use it for business purposes. If you were to buy a pickup truck like a f-150 for personal use the road taxes would be around 200 euros a month and you will still need to insure that and pay for 7-8 dollar a gallon gas.
1. Just the fact that you can say "Bread and cheese culture" says so much about the Netherlands. 2. Exercise. Your movement quadrupled? That's both amazing, and a sad commentary about the car culture that plagues US towns. 3. Nobody thinks of NL as a place for foodie culture, BUT the sheer quality of basic items refutes that. If you're an aspiring home chef like me (don't take that too seriously) you KNOW that food quality is the foundation of everything. I'm commenting on this because in my list of priorities in "places to retire to" access to quality food, both restaurants and grocery, is on the short list. 4. Safety. Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
100% about foodie culture! the quality of every single meal we make at home improved dramatically just by moving here (and every ingredient is often cheaper than the US)
Someone probably already explained this, but the fact most Surinamese eateries serve Chinese, Indonesian and Surinamese cuisine, is because like Indonesia, Suriname used to be a Dutch colony. And sometime during the 1800s I believe, the Dutch brought a lot of Indonesian and Chinese workers over from the Dutch East Indies.
If you like bread so much, go to a Moroccan bread store and buy some maize-white short breads and a few tin of sardines. That combination is heaven on earth.
Bread: flour, yeast, salt and water. If there's anything else in it, it's no good. That's why I don't eat bread from the supermarket. Most bread in the supermarket has way more ingredients, like E-numbers and 'broodverbetermiddel', which loosely translates as 'stuff to make bread better', it can be basically whatever and does not need to be specified in the list of ingredients. (check Wikipedia for the list of possible chemicals). Also it does not make bread better, it makes it worse. The primary function is to make bread more fluffy so less ingredients are required to produce the same size bread. I think you are gonna be AMAZED when you visit an artisan bakery and try really good bread. Combine it with butter and 'overjarige kaas' (cheese matured for over a year) from a cheese shop, it will blow you away. Have fun discovering the Netherlands!
The Dutch tend to prefer the "bread at the baker, meat at the butcher's and vegetables at the greengrocer's" idealogy. No processed stuff. But then, I live in Mexico, am retired and have time to spare. But also back when I lived in The Netherlands, I would follow the same doctrine. Never buy your food in a supermarket. I like to know what goes into my food and how it's prepared. Who better than I?
I love that it was so clean and everyone could buy flowers for the house for cheap prices. I think they are just clean people the Dutch. Plus croquettes amazing
I just had to comment on the food...I can tell you this the food quality has gone down in the years. Fruit was better 10-20 years ago, but that's because it was supposed to be fresh for 2-3 days. Now you buy more unripe fruit because it has to stay 'fresh' longer like for 5-8 days. So it means like banana is harvested earlier from trees, so there's vitamins from the sun which also makes it taste less sweet (natural). You don't eat meat, but meat was also better, it tasted juicer and nowadays when I buy mincemeat, there will be small pieces of bone/hard bits in it. Also, I buy cheese already sliced because it's easier and I'm lazy to cut it myself. (is a bit more expensive) Bread also used to be tastier, but would only be good for 3 days max. Now up to 7 days (although after 3 days you do taste that it's older.) I had to edit...I'm talking about the supermarket stuff. For the best bread go to a bakery and for meat go to a real butcher. Supermarkets used to have a bakery inhouse and butcher and cheeses department.
Funny you mention this 'old Amsterdam '. Because it is not old, but introduced in 1985. It is Goudse kaas riped in 8 months instead of 12. The advertising show movies from before the war, but have nothing to do with the cheese.
On the Old Amsterdam: It's nice enough, but it's not called Oude Kaas, but Old Amsterdam, because it is not old at all. Old cheese has to mature 24+ months to get the taste of Oude Kaas, but Old Amsterdam has fast aging enzymes. They also have a different taste for this reason, then the normal Oude Kaas. With Old Amsterdam you basically pay mostly for marketing, not for quality cheese. Just so you know, buy Old Amsterdam and a good Oude Kaas and do a taste test.
you are right, with city's up to 2000 years old we have preserved a huge amount. then again, we used to build to last untill 4 bussines men invented to law of obselence. (light bulb manufactures) plenty was destroyed by germans in the second world war tho, the whole of rotterdam's inner city was flattend for example. what's not to love about living in the netherlands?
Those people were wright! Stay of the processed chees & Old Amsterdam and buy your chees at a chees shop. Avoid the supermarket white bread. Find yourselves a loaf of bread at the bakery! 🙂
Familiar with the fact that Old Amsterdam is just a recently created (1985) cheese with inspiration from Italian old cheese… ? it has no real history or connection with A’dam… (and the cheese isn’t officially old due to the production process).
If you like Old Amsterdam you check out "oude kaas" at a food market. That's the real thing. Old Amsterdam is a decent substitute, but it is artificially aged.
and about safety...how about you know that no one has a gun..and if they do, they are automatically breaking the law..so, as a civilian you are protected. No school shootings..how about that for safety. But its great that the Netherlands is becoming your home.
If you like bread you should definitely buy from a real Baker. its by far superior than supermarket bread!! And buy your cheese from a special cheese place (kaasboer), its better cheese and cheaper!
I miiiiiissss the bread. My Dutch uncle visited us in Philly PA a couple years back and he complained how US bread smells too sweet. Even if you walk into the bread isle at a US grocery store, I agree with him that it smells like just sugar. AND my grandfather, owned a bakery in NL, during WWII as well, so my family knows the difference. And a simple daily sandwich with butter, cheese and salami or bologna will never escape me. 😁 Now we have a family member with a gluten allergy sooo... The only brand I know if in NL is Schär. And that in the US is pricy.... I'm curious how my grandfather would have handled that for his allergic grandkids?
well you still buy all the food from the food industries and we Europeans Hate that industrial food, so we eat bread from a bakery, now that is delicious , i have been in the states and when i explained how bread needs to be they just simply said we can't buy that on a daily basis that said we do that here every day, and typical Dutch = Broodje Kroket - not my thing but you should try it
Ok.... Please buy Bread at a bakery....its waaaaaay better then supermarket Bread. For cheese Go into a cheese shop and taste. Both Can also be found at markets in the city
Supermarket bread is like cardboard. Get some real bread at the local baker. But if you like bread from the supermarket I wonder how awful American bread must be.
The saunas are great for the cold. What about the sun? I spent a winter in the PNW and only saw the sun a handful of times in 6 months. I'm guessing it's worse there?
The worst old cheese is old Amsterdam, it’s called old Amsterdam because it’s not really old cheese, it’s really salty to. Go to cheese store and buy some really old cheese. You never go back
I hope you can read Dutch a little bit 😉 Exposure is one way of learning it. Er zijn verschillende redenen waarom voetgangers hier veiliger zijn op straat. 1. De auto's zijn een ander model, hebben een ander design vanwege andere regels in de EU. Er moet een hogere overlevingskans zijn als je word "geschept" (ik kies bewust dit woord) door een auto. De grotere auto's in de VS zijn dan ook meer een "botsing" met een auto. Test dummies. 2. De infrastructuur en dus stoepen, en wandel gebieden en mogelijkheden, alles is compacter en dichter bij elkaar. Dit hangt ook samen met de geschiedenis en het leven, wonen en het groeien van de dorpen, steden, etc. In theorie moet het leven zonder een auto mogelijk zijn, en je moet dan toch overal kunnen komen waar je heen zou moeten gaan. Omdat we hier leefde en dingen nederzettingen hebben gemaakt toen er nog geen auto bestond, en het vandaar alleen gegroeid is in bevolkingsaantal, met pieken en dalen. Daarnaast zijn wijken gebouwd in tijden toen er bijvoorbeeld een auto was, maar dan een auto per gezin/huis, wat je terug kan zien soms in het gebrek aan parkeerplaatsen waarbij huishoudens tegenwoordig vaker meer dan een auto hebben. Lopen hebben wij mensen altijd gedaan, of met paard/geit en kar, etc.
It's really nice that you enjoyed the poor weather half year in the Netherlands so much 😁 Just wait for when the sun comes out and everyone flocks to terrasjes, beaches and festivals 🌅
See how dutchies go sit outside as soon as the temp reaches 15 C.
@@AlbertZonneveld Why wait? It was like 8 degrees today but sunny, perfect for having lunch outside!
I spent a short few months in the US and I absolutely missed my bread and cheese, my sense of safety, my ability to go somewhere without a car, and people being more genuine. So yeah, great list.
What I love about the Netherlands is that my young child can take his bike and go visit a friend without me.
I’ve always taken that for granted, but now I think about it, it really is a privilege.
Fairytale towns. You haven't seen fairytale until you have been to these two places. It might be a bit touristic though.
1. Bruges, Belgium.
2. Efteling. This is a fairytale theme park in the Netherlands. Rumors suggest Walt Disney visited this park to get inspiration for building Disney Land. What inspired him? Go there and find out!
Suriname has a very diverse population due to the Dutch trade (and enslavement) efforts in the Golden Age. So, their cuisine is a mix of Dutch, African, Indonesian and Chinese.
Go to the city of Venlo ( limburg ) on the 18 of februari and visit the carnaval there, is incredeble !! The hole town is filed with people in differend costums !! SUPER NICE !!
Great video guys. I also lived there for a few years and mostly enjoyed it. Have a Chocomel for me!
Wait till you wander into Dudok and try their appeltaart...
oooooh we've been meaning to go for a while!!
@@buncharted Dudok appeltaarten are also available at some Albert Heijns
Great video. I love your guys quirkiness.
I am Dutch and I think my people are rude. I don't like them. I like the cycle paths. I am emigrating to SE Asia in July for the 2nd time. Lived there for 11 years and I miss it.
Why not about Dutch culture (arts, dance, music, places to go, fairs and event) and not food culture or Dutch commerce? ( I haven’t seen your vid about Glow yet ) Hopefully you will cover more about other things about the Netherlands to balance things. Good that you enjoy your time with the Dutch and its public transport
try bakeljauw with yellow sambal the best just sayin😃
pretty much all Chinese restaurants in the netherlands are Chinese-Indonesia restaurants. got to do with our colonization of Indonesia. so its kind of a mix. most of the products you find in the Chinese stores (afhaal chinees as we call it in dutch Take away chinese) sell products that you cant find in china period. most of the stuff is not chinese nor Indonesian. its mostly some sort of dutch creation. But we do have real authentic chinese restaurants though Rotterdam and amsterdam got a couple i believe. we also have a Cantonese Restaurant not sure where that one is located. but the normal Afhaal Chinees stores/restaurants are not authentic chinese.
thanks for your compliments haha, nice video. maybe you can try something else in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is famous for its many festivals. in particular the house parties such as mysteryland, decibel, defqon one, awakenings, etc. i am so curious what an american thinks about this. keep up the good work!
Its great to hear the things you like, in one of your previous videos you said you do not like dutch ketchup (heinz), which i agree with so i have a tip. Always buy ketchup at IKEA, yes really they have 50% less sugar or so and every time i go there i always buy a couple, don't forget the frozen meat balls (bordeau rode zak) its great stuff when low in groceries ammo. Some time back i have seen the video regarding MRE, when shit goes down in case of conflict I recommend "Coertjens | Chili Con Carne" I always buy a few cans(blik) when at the Makro but you can buy them online to, It goes well with dutch knakworstjes and some olive oil but thats just my personal opinon, cheers guys have a good one
ikea meatballs really? I tried them once.. blech never again...
@@Blackadder75 There are three different HUVUDROLL meatballs, plant-based, chicken and air fryer. I like the Airfryer edition bc It's great food to have at home just in case, they also have other stuff like Swedish fish sticks, it's something else I dig it.
@@Antonio--- ok thank you, I'll try them again some day, maybe I had the wrong ones
Please try bread from a bakery, instead of a supermarket, it is usually much more tasty. And buy cheese on the market or in a cheese store. You are so right about the surinamese food, also indonesien food is part of the (aquired) dutch culture and because of the intricate history of these parts of the world, chinese food is very much in favour here too.
I am happy to hear that you feel safe, that's an important issue.
The problem with the sliced cheese is not their quality, they are above average, and pretty tasty. Its their price. Just like sliced up anything, if you buy the raw-deal, you get more bang for your buck. MUCH more. Also: the cheeses in grocery stores are meh to pretty good, but the cheeses in specialty cheese shops are INSANEly good (and a bit more expensive: but worth it). They have dozens upon dozens of types. Old, young, with added spices, with or without holes, from all different places (different place=different soil=different grass=different cheese taste). Make it a day out: go to a good cheese shop with 40 euro, and let yourself be treated to the finest cheeses in town. They will let you taste a lot (if you buy afterwards, if you dont buy, the tasting is over pretty quick, haha)
haha the dude said : seeds in fruit is weird haha
Hahaha, I noticed that too. Fruit without seeds is really "weird". No seed, means as much as genetically modified. No seed, no new plant. As simple as that.
I sort of expected you to address financial safety, esecpially if you get sick. You don't go bankrupt because you got huge medical bills. You just pay your 'eigen risico' (about 400 to 1000 euros) and that is it.
that’s mostly how health care works in the US too. the difference is that insurance can be costly and many people are uninsured or underinsured, which is where the medical debt or bankruptcy comes into play. most insurance in the US has a “deductible” which is the “eigen risico” and costs above it are fully covered.
the biggest difference is health insurance is SIGNIFICANTLY more affordable in the netherlands, the eigen risico is much lower (our deductible in the US, shared between michelle and i, was like $3000, i believe), and its mandatory.
Nowadays it aint 1 euro anymore.. Goddamn, those prices go up fast.
The Netherlands is safe and Japan is spastically twice safer. Did you felt safer in Japan?
My wife and I, we went for a short stay in the Netherlands for the country and also for the spa culture. You really should try it. We went to "SpaOne" near Breda. Around Rotterdam, we considered "Thermen Barendrecht", I would love to get your feedback on it.
oh yes, we feel incredibly safe in japan. at pretty much any hour too.
we haven’t done the sauna/spa thing in the netherlands yet, but we did try it in berlin and we really enjoyed it. we’re looking forward to exploring the places here soon!
@@buncharted which spa in Berlin?
@@DamaxThomas kiez
Walking without being worn out means that in the US you walk and there's cars and concrete eveywhere. Well you can't walk 800m without driving it tbh. In NL is just so much nicer.
so true!
I recognize my ''s-Hertogenbosch!
I would definitely skip the white bread and switch to dark bread. More taste ánd more healthy
Try the Indian kitchen , you will love it.
i’m dutch and moved to france. if you think the dutch food is tasty in the grocery store, come to france and its a whole next level. I would not by any food in the dutch supermarket again. and the bread is bad in the netherlands..really bad. and i’m dutch.
oh, we love france. the food there - all of the food there - is totally next level.
how do you look 50 and 20 at the same time?
When you really want some great Surinam/Indonesian lunch, order a bread with shrimpes with pepper and salt.
Nice video, however...
It's called "Surinaams", not "Surinamees" 😊
I was a little shocked however that you thought Rotterdam was a safe place to live, it is actually one of the major cities with a very high crime rate. That being said, just imagine how unsafe it was where you lived before 😮
wait until these guys discover actual bakery...
48+cheese is good cheese old Amsterdam is so much more expensive
oh big no no peanutbutter has to be calve peanutbutter no store brand do the "hagelslag" on top of the peanutbutter slap 2 slices of bread together better then peanut and jelly??
US citizens love the Netherlands because it's the most similar country in Europe. But than it's also so Europy, btw the Dutch food culture is really not that good, says a lot about the US.
food quality is a lot higher here, especially at the grocery store
GUYS GO TO A BAKERY! AND A CHEESE SHOP! Eating bread from the supermarket in the Netherlands is a disgrace 😉🤣
Compliance Tax
If you like the bread, then try some from an artisinal bakery. The supermarkt bread is nothing compared to that.
Im from Sweden and i LOVE the netherlands, people are more social and loving and caring. They are chill af and so kind! In sweden everyone is so grumpy and antisocial and depressed because of the weather and the culturale mix sweden doesnt have. Netherlands is all love and a bit better weather than sweden but that makes a big difference for a swede like me
You guys have a way more beautiful country though :)
Im Dutch and I love Sweden, I've been there 4 times and im only 18. I do get what you're saying about people seeming a bit depressed sometimes. Stunningly beautiful nature though!
A friend of mine lived a couple of years in Sweden. She told me they are more focused on family. It was hard to become friends. The neighbors were surprised when invited for a cup of coffee.
Complain about the weather? It's the only thing that's free here.
I’m Dutch, moved to Canada in 1968. I’m still homesick, but moved to Canada because more room for us after the war we didn’t have to many places to live. But yes I will always love my country. So nice to listen to you both. I wish you guys lots of luck. Take care and have fun.
Wij missen jullie ook hier!!
Canada is boring
Thanks for another great video. When I lived in the US, I could only stomach potato bread, as it was the least sweetest I could find.
As someone who works at the NS it's great to see that trains made it to your top 8!
OMG I am so glad you talk about the bread! There’s a huge difference between American and European breads. In fact, there’s a really good article that just came out about the big difference in European breads and how people find it less invasive into their systems. And it’s because European breads are fermented longer in rising process of the dough. Also, I am loving that you’ve upped the videos and are focusing intently on the Netherlands. It’s my home country, but I’ve been away from it for way too long so it’s nice to see all the things that you were discovering and enjoying. Subscribed!
Nice to hear you enjoyed The Netherlands thus far. Even when you haven't experienced the greatest time of year here; spring is coming with fresh green, blossem and tulips 😊🌷and the whole nation comes out of there houses 😉
we can't wait!!
hehe and if you're really lucky enough and you can experience the water freezing over, that really gets the whole nation wild ⛸(and always gives me goosebumps as well
Yes spring is great, especily where i life. Nearby lisse and keukenhof. U need to visit it in mid april. Then its at his best.
Lumpia (loempia) was introduced in the Netherlands from Indonesia, a former colony (and as some of the people of Surinam have ancestors in Indonesia, this is why they too have lumpia) The Dutch had several trading posts/fortresses in Taiwan and encouraged the Chinese from the mainland to permanently settle there. Some of these Chinese took the trip to go to Batavia (now renamed Jakarta). Those Chinese spoke Hokkien, and had a specific name for spring rolls: lunpia, which is how the word got spread to Indonesia, the Netherlands and Surinam.
that explains it - thank you!
I'm glad to hear you like living in the Netherlands. I'm Dutch so it good to hear that people that moved here from other countries like my country.
I love old Amsterdam!!! We finally got some in the states, and I went crazy when I show that 😅
Something the name suggests is unfortunately not true. Old Amsterdam is not an old cheese. The cheese ripens faster due to a different starter culture. Unfortunately, this makes the cheese taste a lot sweeter than the traditional old cheese.
Another great video. Hopefully you will enjoy your new home for years to come. How about cycling? Done that yet? It’s something I like the most next to the public transport and good infrastructure 👍🏻
not yet - we were about to buy bikes, then winter happened, and now we're waiting to move in the spring or early summer... but soon!
@@buncharted buy the bikes. Winter or autumn that doesn't matter. You need bikes rain or shine.
Nice video. You kept an open mind and that's great. I think being open minded is a bonus most Dutch have.
What I like about the USA is the nature. In many areas, especially in the mid west, you can drive for long distances without crossing cities and just enjoy the mountains, desert, dunes, forests, lakes and so on. The air is cleaner here and at night you can see there is less light pollution. When parked in the desert or forest I can see that the sky is filled with stars, which wasn’t possible in The Netherlands.
yes, there are so many beautiful landscapes in the US. great for road trips!
To put that in perspective. If you travel the same distances in Europe you can find spectacular landscapes as well. Europe countries are just as diverse as the US states.
Glad you like it here, seems like you made the right choice! When I worked in the US, safety was something that was _always_ on my mind. Here, I have piece of mind walking the street, which to a Dutch person will probably sound strange or even incomprehensible. Would love to see an update video from time to time. Oh, and with regards to safety, or piece of mind, we also don't just cut your power …
E: Oh, and we do have seedless fruit!
The first few seconds I watched your video I had this big smile on my face. It was like watching spoof of all other Americans doing such a video. Michelle was so naughty when Alex started to fiddle with the microfoon. Michelle has this Buffy-the-vampire-high-school-vibe. And the moustache on Alex cracked me up. I could stop watching that thing. But you are serieus and I realized how extremely fluently this video went. Just two people in front of a camera. Did you guy made a script. Amazing. Very professionally done! Not one time you guys were lost for words. No uh's or uh huh's.. Very well done..
Nice to end the day with some good vibes. Thanks for sharing! :)
As a dutch citizen from Amsterdam i would recommend you guys try out the morrocan cuzine in the west side of amsterdam osdorp its very delicious i think yall would really like it
Old Amsterdam is good tosti cheese, because it's fake. Through some innovation it tastes older than it is, hence the name 'old' which isn't Dutch nor Amsterdam dialect and therefore not legally protected, calling it 'oud' would be a fellony. It's probably the first cheese maker in Amsterdam anyway and they only exist for 2 decades. But not a bad product, just fake marketing.
There is proper cheese in the supermarket, in slices too. But the really good cheese is sold in the non tourist cheese shops and at the market, allthough not all market stands and cheese shops are equally good of course, but they'll let you taste.
Suriname food is one of the most populair food in the Netherlands, everybody loves it
My favorite is Roti, original from India, but its the most populair Suriname food, you should try it, So good
Love the video
Please try the sourdough Bread from Jordy’s Bakery…..first the white, but do try the ‘meergranen desem’…..that is whole wheat sourdough……you will love it!
oh man, we love jordy’s - will do!
A typical type of bread is "fries roggebrood". You may not have seen anything quite like it (except perhaps in germany). Its easy to miss as a foreigner because its packaged in a plastic box, oftenly. I recommend trying it if you haven't yet. If you try to eat it, I recommend eating it with butter (no margarine, but actual butter) and one or two slices of belegen gouda cheese. Its very delicious and really fills you up a lot more than the white bread (although that is ofcourse also very delicious!). I really like your video, and im really happy you guys are having a good time in the netherlands! :)
To clarify, that's rye bread. My recommendation would be to put whatever you want on there, put it on a plate and then with a knife carefully slide it off the plate right into the garbage because that shit's just nasty xD
I'm on the brown bread team. More succulent, nutritious. And no belly aches after consumption. But yeah. Our bread and cheese rule.
Tijgerbrood you must eat volkoren brood mutch healtyer more fibers
Or sourdough from a good bakery ! More expensive but i’ll like the « elasticity ». You only need 2 slices instead of half a loaf to fill your stomach :) When in a good bakery certainly try a “pain au chocolat”.
Come on Dutchies! Sliced cheese from the supermarket is fine. People saying there is better stuff probably buy it everyday themselves. Btw. I love experimenting with tosti’s. Tosti Katenspek is my new favourite.❤
Fijn dat jullie het naar jullie zin hebben! Ga zo door. :)
It's actually terrifying that you say that it's weird fruits have seeds...the fact that you are used to that type of transgenic fruit...so sad for United Statians
If you love the bread, you should buy something more rustic as well, like the liefde en passie breads from the Albert Heijn. Way better than the simple tijgerbrood ❤
that’s what we’ve been doing lately - it’s so much better and still very convenient ❤️
It's an interesting list, I love how you're getting to know the Netherlands. The fact that you call bami and nasi surinamese probably also has to do with the fact that you live in Rotterdam, would be much more Indonesian in Den Haag for example. Btw, what's your take on German and Italian bread, since you've been to both? I personally think their bread is much better than dutch bread. Finally... don't talk about Old Amsterdam, it's fake old cheese! They're not allowed to call it "oude kaas", because it's not, they speed up the aging process, so they call it "old" instead, to suggest oldness.
Maar als de smaak goed is, dan is het toch goed?
Somehow I always feel hungry after watching your video's. 😅
1 food tip, go to a chinese/indonesia restaurant and order a rijsttafel (rice table, you get rice obviously and a large amount of side dishes its absolutely amazing. e njoy
They already did 😉 (I think the den Bosch video, not sure)
I’m glad that you guys like the Netherlands. Btw are here things in the Netherlands that you guys see here and recognize from hometown? Like American pickup trucks and stuff like that? Btw you guys are awesome
i am so surprised at how many american pickup trucks we see here! that was definitely unexpected for us.
and thank you ♥♥♥
@@buncharted Usually people with pickup trucks have it registered to their company and use it for business purposes. If you were to buy a pickup truck like a f-150 for personal use the road taxes would be around 200 euros a month and you will still need to insure that and pay for 7-8 dollar a gallon gas.
1. Just the fact that you can say "Bread and cheese culture" says so much about the Netherlands.
2. Exercise. Your movement quadrupled? That's both amazing, and a sad commentary about the car culture that plagues US towns.
3. Nobody thinks of NL as a place for foodie culture, BUT the sheer quality of basic items refutes that. If you're an aspiring home chef like me (don't take that too seriously) you KNOW that food quality is the foundation of everything. I'm commenting on this because in my list of priorities in "places to retire to" access to quality food, both restaurants and grocery, is on the short list.
4. Safety. Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
100% about foodie culture! the quality of every single meal we make at home improved dramatically just by moving here (and every ingredient is often cheaper than the US)
A biggggg yes to a video on Surinam food. I'm interested in any foods on the former or present Dutch colonies!
Someone probably already explained this, but the fact most Surinamese eateries serve Chinese, Indonesian and Surinamese cuisine, is because like Indonesia, Suriname used to be a Dutch colony.
And sometime during the 1800s I believe, the Dutch brought a lot of Indonesian and Chinese workers over from the Dutch East Indies.
If you like bread so much, go to a Moroccan bread store and buy some maize-white short breads and a few tin of sardines. That combination is heaven on earth.
Bread: flour, yeast, salt and water. If there's anything else in it, it's no good. That's why I don't eat bread from the supermarket. Most bread in the supermarket has way more ingredients, like E-numbers and 'broodverbetermiddel', which loosely translates as 'stuff to make bread better', it can be basically whatever and does not need to be specified in the list of ingredients. (check Wikipedia for the list of possible chemicals). Also it does not make bread better, it makes it worse. The primary function is to make bread more fluffy so less ingredients are required to produce the same size bread.
I think you are gonna be AMAZED when you visit an artisan bakery and try really good bread. Combine it with butter and 'overjarige kaas' (cheese matured for over a year) from a cheese shop, it will blow you away.
Have fun discovering the Netherlands!
UA-cam feed brought me here. Always fun the see how Expats have their own view on the country I live in.
BTW, is that a random pineaplle? 😇😏
The Dutch tend to prefer the "bread at the baker, meat at the butcher's and vegetables at the greengrocer's" idealogy. No processed stuff. But then, I live in Mexico, am retired and have time to spare. But also back when I lived in The Netherlands, I would follow the same doctrine. Never buy your food in a supermarket. I like to know what goes into my food and how it's prepared. Who better than I?
I love that it was so clean and everyone could buy flowers for the house for cheap prices. I think they are just clean people the Dutch. Plus croquettes amazing
I just had to comment on the food...I can tell you this the food quality has gone down in the years. Fruit was better 10-20 years ago, but that's because it was supposed to be fresh for 2-3 days. Now you buy more unripe fruit because it has to stay 'fresh' longer like for 5-8 days. So it means like banana is harvested earlier from trees, so there's vitamins from the sun which also makes it taste less sweet (natural). You don't eat meat, but meat was also better, it tasted juicer and nowadays when I buy mincemeat, there will be small pieces of bone/hard bits in it. Also, I buy cheese already sliced because it's easier and I'm lazy to cut it myself. (is a bit more expensive) Bread also used to be tastier, but would only be good for 3 days max. Now up to 7 days (although after 3 days you do taste that it's older.) I had to edit...I'm talking about the supermarket stuff. For the best bread go to a bakery and for meat go to a real butcher. Supermarkets used to have a bakery inhouse and butcher and cheeses department.
Funny you mention this 'old Amsterdam '.
Because it is not old, but introduced in 1985.
It is Goudse kaas riped in 8 months instead of 12.
The advertising show movies from before the war, but have nothing to do with the cheese.
On the Old Amsterdam: It's nice enough, but it's not called Oude Kaas, but Old Amsterdam, because it is not old at all. Old cheese has to mature 24+ months to get the taste of Oude Kaas, but Old Amsterdam has fast aging enzymes. They also have a different taste for this reason, then the normal Oude Kaas. With Old Amsterdam you basically pay mostly for marketing, not for quality cheese. Just so you know, buy Old Amsterdam and a good Oude Kaas and do a taste test.
you are right, with city's up to 2000 years old we have preserved a huge amount.
then again, we used to build to last untill 4 bussines men invented to law of obselence. (light bulb manufactures)
plenty was destroyed by germans in the second world war tho, the whole of rotterdam's inner city was flattend for example.
what's not to love about living in the netherlands?
Those people were wright! Stay of the processed chees & Old Amsterdam and buy your chees at a chees shop. Avoid the supermarket white bread. Find yourselves a loaf of bread at the bakery! 🙂
Familiar with the fact that Old Amsterdam is just a recently created (1985) cheese with inspiration from Italian old cheese… ? it has no real history or connection with A’dam… (and the cheese isn’t officially old due to the production process).
Look at the ingredients on the milk cartons. You probably find there is only milk. Compare this to an American carton.....
To be fair. Rotterdam is not ‘new’; it was bombed extremely during the Second World War…
If you like Old Amsterdam you check out "oude kaas" at a food market. That's the real thing. Old Amsterdam is a decent substitute, but it is artificially aged.
thank you for making these videos it really keeps me excited for when i move to the netherlands with my girlfriend in the next year
and about safety...how about you know that no one has a gun..and if they do, they are automatically breaking the law..so, as a civilian you are protected. No school shootings..how about that for safety. But its great that the Netherlands is becoming your home.
Glad you like it here.
Can you also feel the difference between Guns and no Guns compared to the US?
Just count the schoolshootings here.
About none.
If you like bread you should definitely buy from a real Baker. its by far superior than supermarket bread!!
And buy your cheese from a special cheese place (kaasboer), its better cheese and cheaper!
I miiiiiissss the bread. My Dutch uncle visited us in Philly PA a couple years back and he complained how US bread smells too sweet. Even if you walk into the bread isle at a US grocery store, I agree with him that it smells like just sugar. AND my grandfather, owned a bakery in NL, during WWII as well, so my family knows the difference. And a simple daily sandwich with butter, cheese and salami or bologna will never escape me. 😁
Now we have a family member with a gluten allergy sooo... The only brand I know if in NL is Schär. And that in the US is pricy....
I'm curious how my grandfather would have handled that for his allergic grandkids?
Bread quality must be pretty bad in the US indeed if tijgerbrood (white no less) comes out on top. Haha.
If you love the beauty of the old city's: don't go to the ugly ones: Lelystad and Almere...... ;)
well you still buy all the food from the food industries and we Europeans Hate that industrial food, so we eat bread from a bakery, now that is delicious , i have been in the states and when i explained how bread needs to be they just simply said we can't buy that on a daily basis that said we do that here every day, and typical Dutch = Broodje Kroket - not my thing but you should try it
Old Amsterdam is a processed cheese.. avoid it.. buy your cheeses at your local market, or special cheese shop..
If you like Surinaams food. Get a broodje pom extra spicy. You will not regret it
Ok....
Please buy Bread at a bakery....its waaaaaay better then supermarket Bread.
For cheese
Go into a cheese shop and taste.
Both Can also be found at markets in the city
Supermarket bread is like cardboard. Get some real bread at the local baker.
But if you like bread from the supermarket I wonder how awful American bread must be.
The saunas are great for the cold. What about the sun? I spent a winter in the PNW and only saw the sun a handful of times in 6 months. I'm guessing it's worse there?
I haven't bought bread in years. I mill all my own flour and bake all my own bread.
I like in my country,that everything we need we have and works and is maintained 💪
SO true!
The worst old cheese is old Amsterdam, it’s called old Amsterdam because it’s not really old cheese, it’s really salty to. Go to cheese store and buy some really old cheese. You never go back
I hope you can read Dutch a little bit 😉 Exposure is one way of learning it.
Er zijn verschillende redenen waarom voetgangers hier veiliger zijn op straat.
1. De auto's zijn een ander model, hebben een ander design vanwege andere regels in de EU. Er moet een hogere overlevingskans zijn als je word "geschept" (ik kies bewust dit woord) door een auto. De grotere auto's in de VS zijn dan ook meer een "botsing" met een auto. Test dummies.
2. De infrastructuur en dus stoepen, en wandel gebieden en mogelijkheden, alles is compacter en dichter bij elkaar. Dit hangt ook samen met de geschiedenis en het leven, wonen en het groeien van de dorpen, steden, etc. In theorie moet het leven zonder een auto mogelijk zijn, en je moet dan toch overal kunnen komen waar je heen zou moeten gaan. Omdat we hier leefde en dingen nederzettingen hebben gemaakt toen er nog geen auto bestond, en het vandaar alleen gegroeid is in bevolkingsaantal, met pieken en dalen. Daarnaast zijn wijken gebouwd in tijden toen er bijvoorbeeld een auto was, maar dan een auto per gezin/huis, wat je terug kan zien soms in het gebrek aan parkeerplaatsen waarbij huishoudens tegenwoordig vaker meer dan een auto hebben. Lopen hebben wij mensen altijd gedaan, of met paard/geit en kar, etc.