The Good Stuff in Amsterdam & Brussels

I was over at Amsterdam, Netherlands and Brussels, Belgium over the weekend. It was really an insanely crazy weekend. Crazily fun but crazy all the still. Tasted over more than 12 different types of beer, for a beer-hater, I really liked Belgium Beer. Clean, crisp, high alcoholic content, great aftertaste, and a different type of beer for everyone. Good booze, good international food available, drugs like marijuana & magic mushrooms are easily and legally available, and its legendary red light district. This is a city made for some nasty fun ~

But let me start with the food !

Olie Bollen - Dutch Doughnuts. Chewier, denser than our normal doughnuts. They come in plain, with raisins, apples, bananas and others. Dipped in power sugar and served to passing customers. I had the plain and the banana ones. Definitely worth trying, they can be purchased throughout the city in little carts.




FEBO - this is a local fast food restaurant, though the concept is very different from a normal fast food chain. It comes with vending machines for a customer to purchase hot fried snacks and burgers. Cheap and good. Fried snacks come in the form of croquettes, fried potatoes + mystery meat (because everything is in Dutch). Deep fried and crispy on the outside, soft and gooey on the inside


Smoked Raw Herring sandwich, a local favorite. I call it my sashimi in a roll. It comes with diced onions and pickles. It's so good that I had one, almost every day and i bought a jar of raw herring back to Dublin.


Fries ! Believe it or not, it's one of the favorite snack foods here. The fries are really good, freshly fried, available throughout the city. What differs from their fries and ours is the fact that they are 20 over sauces for fries. 20 !!!
I tried mayo (thicker than the normal variety), sambal & satay sauce.
Sambal sauce looked like thousand island salad dressing with lots of chillies.
Satay sauce was mildly sweet and peanut-y in favor.


Dutch Poffertjes - I had mine with liqour and powdered sugar. They are just tiny, little pancakes. Chewy and a bit thicker. Not too bad.


Apple pie - Took a day trip to Delft, where the best apple pie in the world is at, really ! This one had apple, (i'm guessing pear as well), macadamia nuts, liquor, and raisins. All tightly packed in a crispy pie crust.


To go to Belgium and not eat waffles, is a sin. Again, this might be a pattern from my sleep deprived brain, but thicker and chewier than the waffles that we have at home.

Will write more about Amsterdam soon. Tired, really really tired. I might give up my Edinburgh trip to rest a bit more and save up. I really overspent this time round.