written Monday 30 June 2003
| The food here |
I remember back in the US, in the weeks before I moved, that I expressed my concern over the food I would eat here in the Netherlands. Everyone told me I was crazy: It's a wealthy country, they said. The Dutch have taste, they must have a lot of seafood, and my friends know I love seafood. Larry said something like: They make great beer, how bad can their food be?
Still I was concerned. I turned to ask my American friends some questions of my own.
"What is your favorite Italian restaurant?" and they always had a quick answer.
"What is your favorite Mexican restaurant?" An answer. "Your favorite French restaurant? Spanish restaurant? Chinese restaurant?..." and they always had a happy answer.
OK, smart guy--name your favorite Dutch restaurant." Blank stare.
Uh oh.
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Yes, there's that. But still most of my meals have to be Dutch. Indonesian doesn't work for breakfast, it doesn't work for lunch during the work week, it doesn't work at dinner unless you want to pay 20 euros a meal. So for 100 euros a week you can eat Indonesian 5 out of 21 meals.
If there's any money left, the other 16 meals are necessarily Dutch: bread butter milk for breakfast; bread cheese yogurt-drink for lunch; bread beer cheese koekje for dinner. It's already getting old.
nom d'une pipe... awwwwww.... indonesian was a joke, because it's quite rich, but it's good !!! ;)
ok. faut que je vienne d'urgence te voir et te faire des petits plats !!!
So if you like seafood, what do you think of "zoute haring" ?? :)
so i should forget the german chocolate danish from panera and send a pound of jumbo shrimp, a jar of garlic/shallot/prociutto/chopped tomato sauce and a pound of angelhair. ;)
can anyone here help me? i am doing travel and tourism for a college course and i am writting about amsterdam, i am having trouble finding out about the food that is available and traditional, apart from cheese my list is blank so if someone wouldnt mind emailing me with some help i would be sooooo grateful.
thankyou
pippa rose, harlow essex, england
eat indonesian !!!!!!