As a true Dutchman I think you emphasize the deep fried snacks too much. What about Haring? Drop? and Dutch Cheese? Or Hutspot, Drie in de Pan, Wentelteefjes, Hagelslag en Bitterballen?
@@thecraftypreschooler8263 I don't know what metric system they use in Canada if you don't use grams it's easy to convert them when you look it up on the internet." Base recepe For 3-4 people . 30-35 min . ingredents 750 grams crumbly potatos 750 gram winter carrot (possible to use summer carrots but since it is a true winterdish it's traditionaly made with winter carrots) 1 big white union 25 grams of butter salt and pepper prep: Peel the potatos and cut them up in likesize pieces. Cut the union n half rings. Clean the carrots and cut in small pieces (+- 1cm) Put the potatos, carots and union stacked on top of each other in a pan (dutch oven, coking pot) Fil it with water and let it cook 20-25 (time can vary due to size of potatos.) minutes until done with a bit of salt. When done, strain the potatoes carrots and union put it back in the pan with the butter. Take a potato musher or hand held blender and mush together, until a course texture. It's prefered to use the musher for this, but it's not realy a common kitchen aid in different countries I believe. Finish with salt and pepper. Some people put about 50 ml of warmed milk with the butter in it too, but I find the course texture will be lost. Served with: a good meat gravy and Meatbal beaf stew (my personal fav) Chicken legs traditional dutch smoked sausage. bacon
Yes. With the garlic saus or remoulade sauce. Way way better then the english fish and chips. Om de week haal ik een bakkie in het weekend of een lekkerbek. Heerlijk.
The fish in British fish 'n chips is quite similar, fish filet in a heavy batter, then fried, the main difference is kibbeling are morsels of fish in stead of a complete filet, and the batter tends to be a bit thicker and crunchier, plus it's served with a sauce in stead of salt and vinegar. If made well, both are great.
We also have haring, snert, paling, oliebollen, hachee, tompouce, hagelslag, gestampte muisjes, and spacecake. You spent a lot of time in the snackbar but you didn't go for the kapsalon and the joppiesaus.
In the video I only see stroopwafels in packages. Have you tried fresh was from the market? If not, I really recommend you do because they're even better!
She did! If you’re from Rotterdam you actually could know where she went! And that’s seriously hands down the best place to get them (at Van Vliet’s Siroopwafelen). Only at their Gouda place would be better.
I'd steer clear of kapsalon, soggy fries mixed with cheap meat, simple salad and drenched in sauce.. it's edible but feel it would be better if it was served separately.
hahahahah so basically de snackbar! de markt and de tokos.. Geweldig dit! Absoluut heel lekker en de toeristen weten het ook.. Maar waar zijn de stamppotten met rookworst, erwtensoep, gekookte aardapellen spruitjes, hachee vlees, blokjes Hollandse kaas met augurkjes, zilveruitjes en knakworstjes, haring, Zeeuws spek, saucijzenbroodjes, ontbijtkoek, speculaas? Wat vergeet ik nog allemaal?
@@EileenAldis Maybe you should also try a bowl of Snert. Which is Dutch Pea-soup. It doesn't look like much, but it very hearty and filled with potatoe, carrots, several meats and smoked sausage. Not much of a snack, more a full meal, but it is classic Dutch winter food.
I am currently planning a trip to Europe and I am so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Your videos are the perfect combination of being aesthetically pleasing but also full of information that makes planning a trip so much easier.
Your comment about fries tasting better served in a cone made me smile - here in England, I always find fish & chips tastes best eaten straight out of the paper...at the seaside...in the rain! (preferably sitting in a shelter overlooking the sea).
Hi Frank! Thank you for painting such a lovely image for me! I totally agree and this makes me think of my Dad who thinks fish and chips taste the best this way too. When we visited England as a family we ate them this way (although no rain that particular time haha) and it's a wonderful memory :)
Try to loose weight: you'll be healthier and hungrier. You'll be healthier even after eating a ton of this delicious stuff. And think of us poor people who can not join you ... Enjoy!
Aaah memories. Walk the dunes along the beach in Ijmuiden on a warm summer day and then stop in a beachfront restaurant for a cold bier and bitterballen. Thanks for the recap of Dutch comfort food.
This is mainly fastfood, and though regarded as typically Dutch a rather large part has a foreign origin. The frikandel is a postwar Dutch invention by Gerrit de Vries and the name is derived from frikadel (without the n) which is a kind of meatball. He mixed meat with flour but wasn't allowed to call it frikadel (not pure meat) so changed the shape and cut out the n. The kroket is the Dutch (modern) spelling of croquette, the origin is early 18th century in France. Fries are Belgium fries as you mentioned. The poffertjes are regarded as something typically Dutch but the origin is also France, just like the pancake (like the French crepe but much thicker). You can put anything on poffertjes but most common is just some powdered sugar and butter. The kaassoufflé is a Dutch invention by Hans van Bemmel (in 1969) and based on a much lighter version in the French and Italian cuisine, hence the "soufflé". A stroopwafel is truly Dutch, invented early 19th century in the city of Gouda. Food from Suriname is not common but Indonesian food can be found anywhere. That is because the latter is served by almost all Chinese restaurants in our country that serve a mix of Indonesian and Chinese food (which by the way is adapted to Dutch taste).
Not common? In Amsterdam it is! By the way, for the absolute BEST, you need to go to Tjon, at Boven Y in Amsterdam Noord. (Bus 33, get off at shopping center, go around the right hand side.)
@David Dylan: The Netherland isn't the same as Amsterdam. I know, that might be hard to accept, but most dutch people actually live somewhere else. I was born and partially raised in A'dam but live elsewhere now. Surinam food is available outside of A'dam, but it's nowhere near as common as chinese/indonesian food. So no, not common. It's actually more common to find a italian or greek restaurant than a surinam one.
Omg yes! We actually did have this when we visited the windmills at Kinderdijk (ua-cam.com/video/9Jo_sQKqIZs/v-deo.html) and I loved it too! Somehow it tastes better than regular split pea soup!? It could also be that I was freezing and the soup was cozy :)
Heerlijk the erwten soep👍🏻 but why did you put chocolate on the poffertjes? Is so much bttr with just butter and that poudersugher and the frikandel special is also bttr when it is split true the middle en then the sauce is in there otherwise the taste of that frikandel is to strong. But nice vid. 👍🏻
Thumbs up for the poffertjes! I haven't tried them - actually, I haven't even seen them there! - but I LOVE pancakes...definitely on my list for my next visit! Thanks again, Eileen! :-)
OOoh it is so lovely to see you're video as a dutch person ! I laughed so hard, the reason about it because you're telling all the food is good and makes you hungry ! Me as a dutch person just love patatje speciaal, frikandel speciaal and the kroket ! Let the world know about OLLIEBOLLEN !!
my hubby comes from the Netherlands a little town called Geldrop,, and we go almost every year and stay with family,, l have tried everything you mentioned,, except your, frikadel is served plain,, what you had was the fridadel speciaal ,, but the truffle mayo is't common,, or l would be getting every time we went there,, l just love Holland and l don't thing you mentioned the Bami,, OMG, that is another thing you must try.
Frikandellen are amazing,but my favorite(not in the video) is still the bami schijf. 30 years of living in the US and I finally learned how to make them. Thank you UA-cam!
In The Hague they have some local specialties. Try a "broodje speklap met chilisaus" for example if you are around (a bun with a crispy baked piece of bacon like meat with some sweet chilisauce). Some around here eat the kaassoufflé with peanutsauce here (some even topped with some chopped raw unions). The "Haagse kakker" is also worth naming. It comes close to a refined "krentenbol" filled with a nutty buttery sugar/cinnamon almond paste.
Bearnaisesaus is something completely different. Truffle mayonnaise is, as the word says, mayonnaise with truffle. It is not very common in the Netherlands, though.
The food I was brought up with smoked doggy mackerel. That's what we call the mackerel that size in Australia. I see that Aldi in the Netherlands sells it for only Euro 2-. Beautiful on a fresh bread roll.
Not to be Mr. Negative, because I loved the video. But you don't have to thank Gouda for the cheese, normal dutch cheese is basicly Gouda cheese. The Gouda part is because it was originally traded there, not because it was made there. Just an 'interesting fyi' fact thing.
That is interesting - thanks for sharing that. I saw photos of the cheese market in Gouda and it looked cool. I loved all the cheese I ate in The Netherlands so I'll thank the whole country then :)
The Surinamese folded crepe you're describing is called Roti. There's a lot more fried food to try, bitterballen, nasibal, bamibal, picanto, mexicano, kibbeling, lekkerbek, just to name a few....
yay!! rijstaffel and nasi goreng my great opa was Indonesian and we would visit the Indonesian spice markets in den haag and bring them back to the UK where I unfortunately live I wish it were in holland
That's what I say too! I have stopped going to places that are stingy with their sauces. Do they actually think their FOOD is so good and that's what attracts me? No, I judge restaurants and such by their sauces. I go to a place because the sauce makes the meal! Skimp on the sauce and there is no reason to buy their food that is no better than anyone else's.
If I could try only one, it would be the poffertjies! I too was mesmerized by how fast they were flipping them over. But a close second is that breaded and deep fried cheese - YUM!! And you are so right about fries served in a cone - they do automatically taste better! Thanks for the video and hope you're having fun in Slovakia! Safe travels, you guys.
That's exactly how I rated them too: #1 poffertjes and #2 kaassouffle. Both super delicious. Slovakia is fantastic, thank you! Videos to come, of course :)
this is my favorite ....The egg ball is a popular snack in the north and east of the Netherlands. An egg ball consists of a whole or half hard boiled, peeled egg in ragout. The ball is breaded and fried
I am new making vlog. So watching you gives me some pointer. Specially being so cheerful. I have to work on my presentation. And you are so clear and easy to grasp. I can almost taste the foods. Awesome
she talked Indonesian and Surinam foods, roti being a Surinam version of Indian (from India) food. Surinam food is actually a very well done fusion cuisine.
Your personality was a joy to watch - which means you're probably fun to be around. As the old saying goes, you could sell ice to an Eskimo. Great job! It makes me wonder if there are any fast food places here in the states that have these foods, If there aren't, there should be!
I know this video was made a year ago but i just had to comment. You had asked us to leave a comment as to which of the foods you presented would we like best. Well, i've got to tell you, i'm drooling! Lol 😀 I want to try them all. Thank you for sharing! Can't wait til your next video! New subscriber from Cincinnati Ohio.
Both you and Marc looked so pensive and serious when you were trying each of the foods...like you were trying to solve a math equation in your heads! Maybe you were trying to figure out what was in them, and not just the croquettes?
haha you're right - I think we were concentrating on all the flavours and evaluating it all in our heads before deciding if it tasted good or not?? Wasn't immediate, I guess! Trying deep fried foods is obviously very serious business ;)
I mean frituur just are amazing. I think that is a big reason why there aren't as much fast food giants in The Netherlands/Belgium. There are like 20 sauces, 50 different deepfried types of meat (curryworst/frikandel, boulette, Mexicano, kaaskroket....) And fries are awesome. Dag noorderburen!
The French have the reputation,, but our food is actually great. A Canadian cousin of mine has a Dutch restaurant in Regina, called ''The Golden Windmill" It's been a huge success for more than 40 years. Typical menu's; Starter; Snert (pea and pork soup) Main dish; Stamppot zuurkool met rookworst (sauerkraut and potato mash, with diced fried unions and a smoked saucage with mustard sauce.) Desert; Karnemelkse pap (buttermilk porridge with rasins soaked in brandy, topped with brown sugar and melasse syrup). Starter; Tomatensoep (tomato soup with small meat balls) Main dish; Rode kool met draadjesvlees (cooked red cabbage with apple-cinnamon cooked potatoes, and slowly stewed beef with beef/black pepper sauce) Desert; Vlaflip (yoghurt and vanilla custard with orange lemonade syrup and whipped cream.) And a lot special fish dishes. Not for vegans!
There were no Dutch desserts in the video LOL. we usually do not eat baked foods for dessert, but puddings and yoghurt or fruit and sometimes cheese for fancy dinners
Well who knows who trully invented the fries, Belgium was part of the Netherlands in History, hence it is difficult to say. Some say it was actually the spanish that invented the fries, but heck who cares. The Dutch fries are different from belgium fries and french fries are these small mini shaped fries, but we can say with certainty it was not the french because they are called french fries as this was just a mistake of Americans.
Soon, if all goes well, they will be only sold as Belgian Fries. Proposal has been introduced at the Unesco to recognize that food as cultural heritage of Belgium.
Well that's not going to help. What we call Vlaamse Frites is quite different to Patat. And again different to franse frites. So...don't go getting your hopes up that we (the dutch) we start calling it belgian fries anytime soon...even if the name is deserved (as again, I don't know where it originated....but frankly, I don't really care either)
I’m from Suriname. And from Javanese descendants. I hope you loved the Surinamese food too. We have a great variety of foods here. And who doesn’t love Poffertjes and fries. Yummmm thanks for sharing your experiences with food.
During the Holidays, especially between the arrival of Saint Nicholas in mid-november and Sinterklaas on 5 december, enjoy the little spice cookies "pepernoten," or coated with chocolate "kruidnoten." They're positively addictive.
What's inside a kroket? A roux of melted butter, with flower and beef broth. The good ones also have some pulled (calf) beef in them. Cooled down to thicken you can bread them. You can make them with any kind of broth realy.
Frikandel Special for me. Left Holland 35 years ago but still love them. When family comes over they bring Frikandel, hagelslag, cheese, drop en Stroopwafels Did not see you eating the zoute haring met uitjes.
My all time favourite is the smoked eel. It’s absolutely delicious and so is the pickled herrings. The eel is an abundant food but is considered a delicacy and the price reflects it. I found it for half the price in a Lidl in Amsterdam. I took a dozen packs back home with me, thinking I could freeze them, I’m afraid greed got the better of me and I finished them in 3 days. Vacuum packing certainly gives them a longer shelf life. Can’t wait to try them again on my next visit to the beautiful Netherlands and it’s friendly people👍❤️❤️
The Herring is unreal good, I eat it almost everyday, The eel is way good too, We love Dutch cheese its the best in Europe, as is the Beer its by far the best in the World, Dutch Beer is all over the world for a reason...I enjoy sitting out side eating Herring, drinking beer, its my favorite thing to do in The Netherlands...
Sauces like mayonaise and tomato-sauce are disgusting and only used by people that don't like the original taste of the food. Only exception is saté-sauce (peanut-sauce) with your fries. Not OVER the fries, but apart so you can dip and decide yourself how many sauce you want!
Normally in the Netherlands if You order a frikandel speciaal they make a cut in the frikandel and they put the onions, mayonaise and curry inside the frikandel.
I am a Dutchie and live for 4 years now in England and I really miss this food. A lot of it you can't get here. Exegetically when I want to make my Indonesian grandma's food.
I bet you must miss it a lot! Other than your grandma's food (which nothing can replace of course...!) which Dutch foods do you miss most that you get as soon as you visit home?
1:32.. the frikandel speciaal had to be cut open in length.. and the traditional way is with tomato ketchup instead of curry sauce.. the Poffertjes are eaten the traditional way with butter and powder sugar. Yes the Belgians invended them, but the dutch are the biggest consumers of fries, the French ones are thin..the Flemish ones are the chunks and the squared ones are Dutch fries.
exactly. they now use curry as "special" sauce. they now give standard curry sause instead ketchup...... they should've used a different name when you mix it with curry. I always have to say when i order with special sauce... WITH KETCHUP. annoying
Hey Kristen! That's awesome - do you know where you're going yet? I made a bunch of videos in the Netherlands in case it's helpful planning: ua-cam.com/video/l-IXpVA2MVs/v-deo.html
This is an great video! I’m dutch myself and this is mylist of foods you should try Cheese Haring (fish) Kroket Frikandel Appelflappen (no idea how to discribe it it’s just delicious Vlaai (cake) Oliebollen Beschuit met muisjes (Popular for breakfast) available at the grocery store ( an biscuit with sugar balls) Hagelslag( chocalate sprinkels) Asperges if the season is right Peperkoek (cookie ish) Rookworst (sausage) Drop Chocomel (drink) Patatje joppie (chips) Krentebollen Speculaas Hope this helped you out!
Wow, this list is fantastic - thank you! I definitely want to try more Dutch foods so I'll keep these recommendations in mind for next time. Makes me hungry to think about :)
Kroket is actually French in origin (Croquette) and made it's first appearance in 1705. Stroopwafels taste even better if you heat them up a little, this causes the syrup to become more liquid and taste a lot better. French fries were actually first introduced on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), Belgium started with this around 1680 and the Netherlands around start 1700's.
The Dutch kroket and the French one have nothing to do with each other. They are both created in their own country. Also nobody really knows how long certain kind of food excist.
I like your friendly, joyful and wel formulated discriptions of the dutch food. Great that you included surinam food as well. You should try barra, also from the surinam kitchen! Btw, i subscribed. Your presentation is the best ever!
Thank you! That's wonderful you're visiting! Do you know whereabouts you're going? We made a series there if you want to check out some other videos: bit.ly/thenetherlandsplaylist :)
You will love it we have been going for 20 years, and Wish we could live there, but we really cant jobs in the U.S. pay us well much better than the ones in The Netherlands...
South Africa has similar..remember the twisted doughnuts koeksisters or somesuch..can buy in the market here in Thailand. Those cheese snacks look great!
Oh my Gosh, I was in the Netherlands a year ago and I didn't get to experience every delicacy that is Holland, in fact I didn't know a few of these even existed. So now I'm planning my next trip....I know what I will eat. I really want the croquette...and the fried Gouda...not to mention. The Indonesian food I ate was dream worthy. I've longed for that cuisine. My hotel this year has a suramese place down the road....mmmm Ik hebben honger. Dank je wel.
If you were only able to eat one of these Dutch foods which would it be? For me, it has to be the poffertjes.
Same here! And yes it is hypnotic watching those baby pancakes being flipped!!
Totally! They flip an entire pan of them at once - must take some practice.
Wow you've been busy with replying to comments this evening..appreciate it so much!!
I vote for the poffertjes. I want some right now! Angie
I think you'd love them too, Angie! Absolutely delicious.
As a true Dutchman I think you emphasize the deep fried snacks too much. What about Haring? Drop? and Dutch Cheese? Or Hutspot, Drie in de Pan, Wentelteefjes, Hagelslag en Bitterballen?
Wat is drie in de pan?
Ja dat vroeg ik me ook af???
Hello from Canada, would be able to explain hotsput to me, and what is in. My husband would like to make it. Thank you kindly
@@thecraftypreschooler8263 I don't know what metric system they use in Canada if you don't use grams it's easy to convert them when you look it up on the internet."
Base recepe For 3-4 people
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30-35 min
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ingredents
750 grams crumbly potatos
750 gram winter carrot (possible to use summer carrots but since it is a true winterdish it's traditionaly made with winter carrots)
1 big white union
25 grams of butter
salt and pepper
prep:
Peel the potatos and cut them up in likesize pieces.
Cut the union n half rings.
Clean the carrots and cut in small pieces (+- 1cm)
Put the potatos, carots and union stacked on top of each other in a pan
(dutch oven, coking pot) Fil it with water and let it cook 20-25 (time can vary due to size of potatos.) minutes until done with
a bit of salt. When done, strain the potatoes carrots and union put it back in the pan with the butter.
Take a potato musher or hand held blender and mush together, until a course texture.
It's prefered to use the musher for this, but it's not realy a common kitchen aid in different countries I believe.
Finish with salt and pepper.
Some people put about 50 ml of warmed milk with the butter in it too, but I find the course texture will be lost.
Served with:
a good meat gravy
and
Meatbal
beaf stew (my personal fav)
Chicken legs
traditional dutch smoked sausage.
bacon
@@lindaraterink6451 you are amazing thank you so very much. Going to surprise hubby with this tonight. Thank you thank you thank you
Powdered sugar and chocolate is fine
But personally I think powdered sugar and a big slice of melted butter is the way to go with poffertjes
Mmm that sounds delicious too 🤤
Yep! And don’t forget the cinnamon topping 😊
Yes, powdered sugar and butter is a classic!
Een oud hollandsche klassieker
I agree. Chocolate doesn't belong over poffertjes
is kibbeling dutch? cause that is really good to
not true most of them use antic fish from antartica but if you have a true fish stand he will cut the kabeljauw fresh
Yes. With the garlic saus or remoulade sauce.
Way way better then the english fish and chips.
Om de week haal ik een bakkie in het weekend of een lekkerbek. Heerlijk.
The fish in British fish 'n chips is quite similar, fish filet in a heavy batter, then fried, the main difference is kibbeling are morsels of fish in stead of a complete filet, and the batter tends to be a bit thicker and crunchier, plus it's served with a sauce in stead of salt and vinegar. If made well, both are great.
Yup!
We also have haring, snert, paling, oliebollen, hachee, tompouce, hagelslag, gestampte muisjes, and spacecake. You spent a lot of time in the snackbar but you didn't go for the kapsalon and the joppiesaus.
Wij hebben best wel lekker eten in Nederland als je er over nadenkt
Zeker!!!!
Ja maar ze gaan altijd voor snacks en koekjes. Ik zie nooit hutspot of
draadjesvlees
kroketje uit de muur , disgusting
Piepers, kuiltje jus... en dan maar prakken
BrenKingXL zeker weter
And how about "Lekkerbekjes" (fried fish) and "Kadetjes", or "Gekleurde muisjes".
In the video I only see stroopwafels in packages. Have you tried fresh was from the market? If not, I really recommend you do because they're even better!
We did and they were super tasty! :)
She did! If you’re from Rotterdam you actually could know where she went! And that’s seriously hands down the best place to get them (at Van Vliet’s Siroopwafelen). Only at their Gouda place would be better.
@@EileenAldis also buy a bag of crumbs at those fresh stroopwafel stalls
@Ad Lockhorst most of the packaged ones use margarine
I don't know much about Dutch food, so this was super cool to see ! Eileen, I'm loving your channel! Excited to see more of your adventures!
Thanks, Jamie!! That's so lovely to hear and makes me very happy :)
Jamie Banks i live in the netherlands, but more in the farmy part haha in the east. You should come to Amsterdam!
You haven't lived untill you try a Frikandel Speciaal.
Heaven!!! Poffertjes making you hypnotic lol! You make me proud of our food! YES Sauce person here too! 🤣
You literally made me sooooooo hungry 🙄
YAY sauce people haha! Hypnotic is the word for poffertjes...I could watch them being flipped over all day (and also eat them all day) ;)
Yep I love them too but no powdered sugar just butter and Chocolate OMG !
I really need to try the kaas souffle! deep fried foods and melted cheese are two of my faves so putting them together would be amazing for sure!
They're SO GOOD. Have one for me too please haha...and some poffertjes 😋
welcome in the Netherlands ,i live here. POFFERTJES FOR LIFE!!!!
Thank you! YAAAAAS poffertjes! 🙌🏻
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Poffertjes are sooooo good. Next time u might wanna try a "kapsalon".
Yesssssss, I'm pretty obsessed with them! I miss them :( I heard about the kapsalon but didn't try it - something for next time!
tradiotionally poffertjes are eaten with powdered sugar and unsalted butter.
I'd steer clear of kapsalon, soggy fries mixed with cheap meat, simple salad and drenched in sauce.. it's edible but feel it would be better if it was served separately.
Kapsalon is not Dutch,its Turkish...so keep it there!
It originated in Rotterdam..seems Dutch enough to me...
With that kind of logic i guess you're only eating potatoes?
hahahahah so basically de snackbar! de markt and de tokos.. Geweldig dit! Absoluut heel lekker en de toeristen weten het ook.. Maar waar zijn de stamppotten met rookworst, erwtensoep, gekookte aardapellen spruitjes, hachee vlees, blokjes Hollandse kaas met augurkjes, zilveruitjes en knakworstjes, haring, Zeeuws spek, saucijzenbroodjes, ontbijtkoek, speculaas? Wat vergeet ik nog allemaal?
eierbal.
You should go during the winter months (just before new year) and try oliebollen- the most delicious thing you will ever taste!
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to my list of what to look for on another visit :)
@@EileenAldis Maybe you should also try a bowl of Snert. Which is Dutch Pea-soup. It doesn't look like much, but it very hearty and filled with potatoe, carrots, several meats and smoked sausage. Not much of a snack, more a full meal, but it is classic Dutch winter food.
Lawrence Tider snert is gross
Aww, I love the guitar in the background of your apartment! Such a great video! Thank you for sharing. I love how much you love food!
haha oh god, I love food and trying new foods ;) So glad you liked it! 😘
I am currently planning a trip to Europe and I am so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Your videos are the perfect combination of being aesthetically pleasing but also full of information that makes planning a trip so much easier.
Hi Jordan! Thanks so much! :) That's really exciting you're planning a Europe trip! Where are you headed?
Your comment about fries tasting better served in a cone made me smile - here in England, I always find fish & chips tastes best eaten straight out of the paper...at the seaside...in the rain! (preferably sitting in a shelter overlooking the sea).
Hi Frank! Thank you for painting such a lovely image for me! I totally agree and this makes me think of my Dad who thinks fish and chips taste the best this way too. When we visited England as a family we ate them this way (although no rain that particular time haha) and it's a wonderful memory :)
In April 2019 I will be in Amsterdam to try these delights.
Jealous.
Try hagelslag too! It's chocolate spinkles which we eat on bread, for breakfast or lunch
Try to loose weight: you'll be healthier and hungrier. You'll be healthier even after eating a ton of this delicious stuff. And think of us poor people who can not join you ... Enjoy!
I will too!
We will be in Amsterdam May 2019 cannot wait
Aaah memories. Walk the dunes along the beach in Ijmuiden on a warm summer day and then stop in a beachfront restaurant for a cold bier and bitterballen. Thanks for the recap of Dutch comfort food.
Ja !
What a wonderful day you've described. Can almost feel the sun...
This is mainly fastfood, and though regarded as typically Dutch a rather large part has a foreign origin. The frikandel is a postwar Dutch invention by Gerrit de Vries and the name is derived from frikadel (without the n) which is a kind of meatball. He mixed meat with flour but wasn't allowed to call it frikadel (not pure meat) so changed the shape and cut out the n. The kroket is the Dutch (modern) spelling of croquette, the origin is early 18th century in France. Fries are Belgium fries as you mentioned. The poffertjes are regarded as something typically Dutch but the origin is also France, just like the pancake (like the French crepe but much thicker). You can put anything on poffertjes but most common is just some powdered sugar and butter. The kaassoufflé is a Dutch invention by Hans van Bemmel (in 1969) and based on a much lighter version in the French and Italian cuisine, hence the "soufflé". A stroopwafel is truly Dutch, invented early 19th century in the city of Gouda. Food from Suriname is not common but Indonesian food can be found anywhere. That is because the latter is served by almost all Chinese restaurants in our country that serve a mix of Indonesian and Chinese food (which by the way is adapted to Dutch taste).
Thank you for the info! We are visiting the Netherlands this May, and I appreciate your information:-)
Nice lesson,interesting to read. Knowing more off our food.
Not common? In Amsterdam it is! By the way, for the absolute BEST, you need to go to Tjon, at Boven Y in Amsterdam Noord. (Bus 33, get off at shopping center, go around the right hand side.)
@David Dylan: The Netherland isn't the same as Amsterdam. I know, that might be hard to accept, but most dutch people actually live somewhere else. I was born and partially raised in A'dam but live elsewhere now. Surinam food is available outside of A'dam, but it's nowhere near as common as chinese/indonesian food.
So no, not common. It's actually more common to find a italian or greek restaurant than a surinam one.
Are you sure? I thought Haaksbergen was a part of Amsterdam ... Explains the long commute.
Hi, have you tried Joppiesaus?
And Fries, tho they are belgian.... belgium used to be part of the Netherlands and France
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Hahaha, bedankt voor de geschiedenis les!
U should also try "Patatje oorlog" (translated war fries) which is fries, with peanut sauce and mayonaise (and sometimes onions)
I'm from the Netherlands and I like to what's this kinde of videos to see what and why you like the things I eat evry day
If you get a chance, I highly recommend Erwtensoep, or split pea soup. The Dutch version of this dish is soooooo good
Omg yes! We actually did have this when we visited the windmills at Kinderdijk (ua-cam.com/video/9Jo_sQKqIZs/v-deo.html) and I loved it too! Somehow it tastes better than regular split pea soup!? It could also be that I was freezing and the soup was cozy :)
Ahh nice!! I think the first time I tried it was at a restaurant in De Hoge Veluwe. Coziness factor should not be underrated though haha
haha totally! The cozy factor has to be calculated and counts for a lot :)
Giantkiller1234 its fantastic.... and super nutricious!
Heerlijk the erwten soep👍🏻 but why did you put chocolate on the poffertjes? Is so much bttr with just butter and that poudersugher and the frikandel special is also bttr when it is split true the middle en then the sauce is in there otherwise the taste of that frikandel is to strong. But nice vid. 👍🏻
Thumbs up for the poffertjes! I haven't tried them - actually, I haven't even seen them there! - but I LOVE pancakes...definitely on my list for my next visit! Thanks again, Eileen! :-)
You missed two of my favorites - smoked herring and double-salted licorice
Hey Elsa! I did try the licorice and loved it. I didn't try smoked herring though! I'll add it to my list for next time :)
The Dutch herring (maatjes-haring or Hollandse Nieuwe) is actually not smoked, but raw. Or brined to be exact. And yes, it's delicious!
Elsa Waters makreel is smoked not haring
The salted licorice we call Salmiakki in Finland.
Katjes...yummmm
Everything look super healthy.
Me gusta todo lo de panadería y los fritos, Netherland tiene rica comida
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OOoh it is so lovely to see you're video as a dutch person ! I laughed so hard, the reason about it because you're telling all the food is good and makes you hungry !
Me as a dutch person just love patatje speciaal, frikandel speciaal and the kroket ! Let the world know about OLLIEBOLLEN !!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I loved trying all the different foods :) I had to Google Olliebollen and they look delicious - yum!
I`m a sauce person too!! I love French fries with mayo!!
Woo sauce people get it! 🙌
Ingrid Carp I didn’t know this, but apparently it is a very Dutch thing to eat fries with mayo? To me this is a totally normal thing to do? 🤔🤔
my hubby comes from the Netherlands a little town called Geldrop,, and we go almost every year and stay with family,, l have tried everything you mentioned,, except your, frikadel is served plain,, what you had was the fridadel speciaal ,, but the truffle mayo is't common,, or l would be getting every time we went there,, l just love Holland and l don't thing you mentioned the Bami,, OMG, that is another thing you must try.
2:40 Wie worsten eet of weduwen trouwt weet nooit wat er is ingedouwd.
Geweldig !! :-D
die kende ik nog niet.
James van der Hoorn
Ook een leuke:
Een man en een hond
Gaan mank aan hun stront.
Frikandellen are amazing,but my favorite(not in the video) is still the bami schijf. 30 years of living in the US and I finally learned how to make them. Thank you UA-cam!
ze heeft kibbeling gemist en de echte hollandse haring!
En een broodje met hagelslag🤣
@@RDJ23 sowieso! En vlokken
In The Hague they have some local specialties. Try a "broodje speklap met chilisaus" for example if you are around (a bun with a crispy baked piece of bacon like meat with some sweet chilisauce). Some around here eat the kaassoufflé with peanutsauce here (some even topped with some chopped raw unions).
The "Haagse kakker" is also worth naming. It comes close to a refined "krentenbol" filled with a nutty buttery sugar/cinnamon almond paste.
Totally fries with truffle mayonnaise. That sounds amazing!
not even Dutch, I just love fries that much!
the truffle mayonnaise is INSANE. so, so good.
Correct name is Bearnaisesaus.
Bearnaisesaus is something completely different. Truffle mayonnaise is, as the word says, mayonnaise with truffle. It is not very common in the Netherlands, though.
Ketchup.
The food I was brought up with smoked doggy mackerel. That's what we call the mackerel that size in Australia. I see that Aldi in the Netherlands sells it for only Euro 2-. Beautiful on a fresh bread roll.
Not to be Mr. Negative, because I loved the video.
But you don't have to thank Gouda for the cheese, normal dutch cheese is basicly Gouda cheese. The Gouda part is because it was originally traded there, not because it was made there.
Just an 'interesting fyi' fact thing.
That is interesting - thanks for sharing that. I saw photos of the cheese market in Gouda and it looked cool. I loved all the cheese I ate in The Netherlands so I'll thank the whole country then :)
The Surinamese folded crepe you're describing is called Roti. There's a lot more fried food to try, bitterballen, nasibal, bamibal, picanto, mexicano, kibbeling, lekkerbek, just to name a few....
Ben ik een chagrijnige nederlander als ik zeg dat ik dat constante gegrinnik echt moeilijk irritant vind?
If in the Netherlands you must try olliebollen absolutely love these. Cant wait to be back there in 8 months
Try indonesian food when in the netherlands, start with Rijsttafel......Dutch-Indonesian food is the best :)
yay!! rijstaffel and nasi goreng my great opa was Indonesian and we would visit the Indonesian spice markets in den haag and bring them back to the UK where I unfortunately live I wish it were in holland
that was a great video, in Suriname we say bakabana with peanut sauce. we also have good food here and plenty of it. Keep IT up 👌🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷
I so agree with you
Sometimes food is just a vehicle for sauce. 😂 So true!
haha I'm glad you agree!
That's what I say too! I have stopped going to places that are stingy with their sauces. Do they actually think their FOOD is so good and that's what attracts me? No, I judge restaurants and such by their sauces. I go to a place because the sauce makes the meal! Skimp on the sauce and there is no reason to buy their food that is no better than anyone else's.
If I could try only one, it would be the poffertjies! I too was mesmerized by how fast they were flipping them over. But a close second is that breaded and deep fried cheese - YUM!! And you are so right about fries served in a cone - they do automatically taste better! Thanks for the video and hope you're having fun in Slovakia! Safe travels, you guys.
That's exactly how I rated them too: #1 poffertjes and #2 kaassouffle. Both super delicious. Slovakia is fantastic, thank you! Videos to come, of course :)
I'll defnitely try the poffertjies if I had to choose one!
Excellent choice! :)
I am dutch, but chocolate on poffertjes...no, not dutch. Just powderd sugar.
Exactly!
this is my favorite ....The egg ball is a popular snack in the north and east of the Netherlands. An egg ball consists of a whole or half hard boiled, peeled egg in ragout. The ball is breaded and fried
The joke about what meat is in the kroket isn’t correct the joke is about the frikandel as the kroket is usually beef
I'm half Dutch and half Surinam and I loved watching thiss!
That makes me happy to hear! ❤️
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I am new making vlog. So watching you gives me some pointer. Specially being so cheerful. I have to work on my presentation. And you are so clear and easy to grasp. I can almost taste the foods. Awesome
Thank you very much! I wish you all the best with your vlogs! :)
It’s not a crepe. It’s a roti
looked like a loempia to me...spring role... if the filling was beansprouts, egg and chicken meat... it was..
I was born and raised in Suriname so I know my Surinamese foods
My favorite food roti😍.. i dont like poffertjes . But most of all i am.addicted to kaassouflees jummie.. kaassouflee met appelmoes.
I'm not getting it.... she talks about Chinese and Indonesian and has roti on her plate....?
she talked Indonesian and Surinam foods, roti being a Surinam version of Indian (from India) food. Surinam food is actually a very well done fusion cuisine.
Loved this!!!! thank you for sharing. I probably would try the first one you showed. Yummy!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😘
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Your personality was a joy to watch - which means you're probably fun to be around. As the old saying goes, you could sell ice to an Eskimo. Great job! It makes me wonder if there are any fast food places here in the states that have these foods, If there aren't, there should be!
U should try HEMA WORST also I forgot the exsact name but something like that..
@Frans Hamars wtf
@Frans Hamars I would think all meat are made from dead animals? 😶
@Frans Hamars yeah like all other kinds of meat are made from dead animals, so whats your point? .
I know this video was made a year ago but i just had to comment. You had asked us to leave a comment as to which of the foods you presented would we like best. Well, i've got to tell you, i'm drooling! Lol 😀 I want to try them all. Thank you for sharing! Can't wait til your next video! New subscriber from Cincinnati Ohio.
Hello to you in Ohio, Cathy! Welcome to our channel! And 'want to try them all' would be my answer too ;)
Both you and Marc looked so pensive and serious when you were trying each of the foods...like you were trying to solve a math equation in your heads! Maybe you were trying to figure out what was in them, and not just the croquettes?
haha you're right - I think we were concentrating on all the flavours and evaluating it all in our heads before deciding if it tasted good or not?? Wasn't immediate, I guess! Trying deep fried foods is obviously very serious business ;)
I mean frituur just are amazing. I think that is a big reason why there aren't as much fast food giants in The Netherlands/Belgium. There are like 20 sauces, 50 different deepfried types of meat (curryworst/frikandel, boulette, Mexicano, kaaskroket....) And fries are awesome. Dag noorderburen!
Gowda, not Gooda
I said it the English way, not the Dutch way.
English pronunciation is the same as in Dutch, French and German for obvious reasons (it being a city name).
It's actually Gouda
tommyk1214 yeah she pronounced it the American way. In the UK we say “Gowda”
Pronunciation Floor, not spelling.
The French have the reputation,, but our food is actually great. A Canadian cousin of mine has a Dutch restaurant in Regina, called ''The Golden Windmill" It's been a huge success for more than 40 years.
Typical menu's;
Starter; Snert (pea and pork soup)
Main dish; Stamppot zuurkool met rookworst (sauerkraut and potato mash, with diced fried unions and a smoked saucage with mustard sauce.)
Desert; Karnemelkse pap (buttermilk porridge with rasins soaked in brandy, topped with brown sugar and melasse syrup).
Starter; Tomatensoep (tomato soup with small meat balls)
Main dish; Rode kool met draadjesvlees (cooked red cabbage with apple-cinnamon cooked potatoes, and slowly stewed beef with beef/black pepper sauce)
Desert; Vlaflip (yoghurt and vanilla custard with orange lemonade syrup and whipped cream.)
And a lot special fish dishes.
Not for vegans!
I'm Dutch 😋🇱🇺
Try tompouce, gevulde koeken, speculaas, drop, hagelslag, slagroom, moorkoppen en oliebollen! 😊
Noted for when we hopefully make a part two! ;) Thanks!
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Wow, these all look so delicious! Especially the desserts. 😍 Such an informational and interesting video, thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad to hear that! Thank you! ❤️
There were no Dutch desserts in the video LOL. we usually do not eat baked foods for dessert, but puddings and yoghurt or fruit and sometimes cheese for fancy dinners
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I'm in the Netherlands now! Ordering everything in this video, just because I can!
Lucky!! Have some poffertjes for me please ;)
Well who knows who trully invented the fries, Belgium was part of the Netherlands in History, hence it is difficult to say.
Some say it was actually the spanish that invented the fries, but heck who cares. The Dutch fries are different from belgium fries and french fries are these small mini shaped fries, but we can say with certainty it was not the french because they are called french fries as this was just a mistake of Americans.
Agreed - they're delicious by any name and no matter where they came from :)
Soon, if all goes well, they will be only sold as Belgian Fries. Proposal has been introduced at the Unesco to recognize that food as cultural heritage of Belgium.
Well that's not going to help. What we call Vlaamse Frites is quite different to Patat. And again different to franse frites. So...don't go getting your hopes up that we (the dutch) we start calling it belgian fries anytime soon...even if the name is deserved (as again, I don't know where it originated....but frankly, I don't really care either)
We care, as Belgians. There is a reason that we filed the origines of French, correction Belgian, Fries at the UNESCO to protect the heritage of it.
Doesnt really matter where they came from or who invented it, im just glad they exist in general. cant live without fries once every week
I’m from Suriname. And from Javanese descendants. I hope you loved the Surinamese food too. We have a great variety of foods here. And who doesn’t love Poffertjes and fries. Yummmm thanks for sharing your experiences with food.
Yea i’m a sauce person to😂
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During the Holidays, especially between the arrival of Saint Nicholas in mid-november and Sinterklaas on 5 december, enjoy the little spice cookies "pepernoten," or coated with chocolate "kruidnoten." They're positively addictive.
Like wie Nederland's is
What's inside a kroket? A roux of melted butter, with flower and beef broth. The good ones also have some pulled (calf) beef in them. Cooled down to thicken you can bread them. You can make them with any kind of broth realy.
I'm Dutch
Frikandel Special for me. Left Holland 35 years ago but still love them. When family comes over they bring Frikandel, hagelslag, cheese, drop en Stroopwafels Did not see you eating the zoute haring met uitjes.
This is where Audrey Heburn's from!
My all time favourite is the smoked eel. It’s absolutely delicious and so is the pickled herrings. The eel is an abundant food but is considered a delicacy and the price reflects it. I found it for half the price in a Lidl in Amsterdam. I took a dozen packs back home with me, thinking I could freeze them, I’m afraid greed got the better of me and I finished them in 3 days. Vacuum packing certainly gives them a longer shelf life. Can’t wait to try them again on my next visit to the beautiful Netherlands and it’s friendly people👍❤️❤️
The Herring is unreal good, I eat it almost everyday, The eel is way good too, We love Dutch cheese its the best in Europe, as is the Beer its by far the best in the World, Dutch Beer is all over the world for a reason...I enjoy sitting out side eating Herring, drinking beer, its my favorite thing to do in The Netherlands...
I'm dutch and I hate fish 😂😂
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Me too
What about deep-fried fish? Vissticks, Kibbeling and Lekkerbek?
My boyfriend is Dutch, and he hates cheese. 😓
Ik ook hahah
frikandel speciaal kaas soufle lekker🤤
belgian fries 😚
SO. GOOD. 😋
The first one, the puff pancake and chocolate sauce, looked delicious.
It was!
Sauces like mayonaise and tomato-sauce are disgusting and only used by people that don't like the original taste of the food.
Only exception is saté-sauce (peanut-sauce) with your fries. Not OVER the fries, but apart so you can dip and decide yourself how many sauce you want!
Ik ben Nederlands en ik hou van dit heerlijke eten! Alles wat ze hadden laten zien vind ik mega lekker!!
Het is lekker! :)
Like als je ook Nederlands ben👍🏽
Normally in the Netherlands if You order a frikandel speciaal they make a cut in the frikandel and they put the onions, mayonaise and curry inside the frikandel.
I am a Dutchie and live for 4 years now in England and I really miss this food. A lot of it you can't get here. Exegetically when I want to make my Indonesian
grandma's food.
I bet you must miss it a lot! Other than your grandma's food (which nothing can replace of course...!) which Dutch foods do you miss most that you get as soon as you visit home?
@@EileenAldis probably kibbeling. I miss that but also other snacks
Yum 😋@@Trekkie1982
1:32.. the frikandel speciaal had to be cut open in length.. and the traditional way is with tomato ketchup instead of curry sauce.. the Poffertjes are eaten the traditional way with butter and powder sugar. Yes the Belgians invended them, but the dutch are the biggest consumers of fries, the French ones are thin..the Flemish ones are the chunks and the squared ones are Dutch fries.
exactly. they now use curry as "special" sauce. they now give standard curry sause instead ketchup...... they should've used a different name when you mix it with curry. I always have to say when i order with special sauce... WITH KETCHUP. annoying
Thanks for sharing this video. Can't wait to make my first trip to the Netherlands in 2019
Hey Kristen! That's awesome - do you know where you're going yet? I made a bunch of videos in the Netherlands in case it's helpful planning: ua-cam.com/video/l-IXpVA2MVs/v-deo.html
awesome thank you so much! it is still a work in progress between me and my bestie! I will keep your videos in mind!
Thinking about it beforehand and all the anticipation is so much fun :) Hope you guys have a great trip!
Eileen Aldis thanks so much ♡♡♡
This is an great video! I’m dutch myself and this is mylist of foods you should try
Cheese
Haring (fish)
Kroket
Frikandel
Appelflappen (no idea how to discribe it it’s just delicious
Vlaai (cake)
Oliebollen
Beschuit met muisjes (Popular for breakfast) available at the grocery store ( an biscuit with sugar balls)
Hagelslag( chocalate sprinkels)
Asperges if the season is right
Peperkoek (cookie ish)
Rookworst (sausage)
Drop
Chocomel (drink)
Patatje joppie (chips)
Krentebollen
Speculaas
Hope this helped you out!
Wow, this list is fantastic - thank you! I definitely want to try more Dutch foods so I'll keep these recommendations in mind for next time. Makes me hungry to think about :)
3:52 that folded crepe is called roti and the dish with chicken and potato is also called roti
Kroket is actually French in origin (Croquette) and made it's first appearance in 1705.
Stroopwafels taste even better if you heat them up a little, this causes the syrup to become more liquid and taste a lot better.
French fries were actually first introduced on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), Belgium started with this around 1680 and the Netherlands around start 1700's.
Krokets, stroopwafels, and fries - all delicious!
The Dutch kroket and the French one have nothing to do with each other. They are both created in their own country. Also nobody really knows how long certain kind of food excist.
Buy them at a street market, freshly made, and you won't have to heat them up!
I love that you did so much research
I even got the Chinese/Indonesian food once per week in the Dutch army on Friday.
I would like to try the tiny waffles with chocolate sauce; and the fries looked really yummy! Thanks for the tips!
I like your friendly, joyful and wel formulated discriptions of the dutch food. Great that you included surinam food as well. You should try barra, also from the surinam kitchen! Btw, i subscribed. Your presentation is the best ever!
We are visiting the Netherlands and I am so excited to try these foods. Great video!
Thank you! That's wonderful you're visiting! Do you know whereabouts you're going? We made a series there if you want to check out some other videos: bit.ly/thenetherlandsplaylist :)
You will love it we have been going for 20 years, and Wish we could live there, but we really cant jobs in the U.S. pay us well much better than the ones in The Netherlands...
South Africa has similar..remember the twisted doughnuts koeksisters or somesuch..can buy in the market here in Thailand. Those cheese snacks look great!
Oh my Gosh, I was in the Netherlands a year ago and I didn't get to experience every delicacy that is Holland, in fact I didn't know a few of these even existed. So now I'm planning my next trip....I know what I will eat. I really want the croquette...and the fried Gouda...not to mention. The Indonesian food I ate was dream worthy. I've longed for that cuisine. My hotel this year has a suramese place down the road....mmmm Ik hebben honger. Dank je wel.
Did you try "Kibbeling"?
It's small chunks of cod fish in a crispy deep fried batter with tartar sauce and the best spices on this planet.
No, I didn't but it sounds delicious and now I wish I had! Thanks for the suggestion - next time! :)