Chinese Food in Rotterdam Netherlands...honest opinion coming your way and the one thing that was...
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- When we moved from the US to Rotterdam Netherlands we have tried some good food and some great food, but for me it been a hit and sometimes a miss. The Chinese Food we had today was good. I'm not sure what I was really expecting but I was surprised at something that knocked my socks off! Living in Rotterdam as an expat from the US, one of our goals was to get out of our comfort zone and try new foods to us and this fit the bill. SOOOO... Thanks for watching our little vlog about us, our food tasting and what the food is really like in the Netherlands. Moving to Rotterdam Netherlands from the US I can tell you that you really can not get food this authentic. So if you travel to Rotterdam, get off the beaten path find an alley or side street and try some food that you will not find anywhere else! Life in Europe is great!!!
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To all the dutchiefied chinese food comments .. most of us grew up on this .. so we relate to it .. its about shared experiences for me .. its not a food channel .. its a culture channel and for me dutchefied chinese food is part of my dutch culture and im indian surinamese so ..😂
Thank you very much for watching and commenting, Winwin💕
Bedank ons niet, wij kijken alleen maar! Jullie maken de video's, wij moeten jullie bedanken! Dank jullie wel.🥰
Thank you for your kind words, Joanne💕
Daar ben ik het helemaal mee eens.
Hard to compare these dishes with what one commonly gets in US Chinese restaurants (California, Iowa, New Hampshire). Did these compare with dishes you had had in the states? (don't do hot, but otherwise spicy, you betcha!)--Jan
You have easy talking. I saw in the intro that you are the best! ;)
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The Chinese-Indisch restaurants were the first foreign cuisine the Dutch got familiar with. We all grew up with it.
The next countries that brought their kitchen here were the Greek and Italians. The Greek was souvlaki and gyros. And the drink retsina.
The Italian were initially mainly pizzas, the original ones. And you drank Lambrusco, dangerous stuff. You can get very drunk without noticing it.
In my opinion they certainly belong on your list of Dutch food. 😀
Thank you for the suggestions, Jannette!! And thank you for your continued support😊
My favorite Americans!!!! Love you both. You should ask for Sichuan dishes, those are the hotter ones. You ordered the Dutchiefied plain Chinese dishes which are sold all over the Netherlands and has nothing to do with Chinese food (but we still like those dishes very much). Keep those videos coming and you will hit 10k soon ❤️
Aww, thank you very much Erwin!! We will have to search for Sichuan over here. 💕
From the names, those seems like Indonesian Chinese food.
@@SoultoSoulTravels you have to go to the witte de witstraat there is a Chinese called Hung Kee its very good
I have been subscribed for several months now and everytime I see you guys I get a smile on my face. I really enjoy to see you explore my country and it's food. Congratulations for achieving the 5.09K subscribers and I hope to see you grow even more.
Hello Nobody None! Thank you very much for your kind words - they really mean a lot to us💕. And thank you for being one of our subscribers 😊
Chinese food is good and adjusted to the Dutch pallet and look. Here in Chinatown The Hague you can also get some authentic Chinese food but that's a whole different experience. I don't like it. It's like eating a cows rectum and you probably are. But babi pangang is my favorite.
The Chinese food is different anywhere you go. It is one of the foods that is not original in The Netherlands and adjusted to local likings. In reality, the Chinese food in The Netherlands is basically Indonesian, even the names.
Babi Pangang means literally roast pork in Bahasa Indonesia/ Melayu. Goreng means fried. The banana frieters are called Pisang Goreng here. Nasi is rice so Nasi Goreng is fried rice. Kroepoek is krupuk in Indonesia, satey also from here. The loempias are from Vietnam although there is a Chinese version called Popiah but are not deep fried but rolled in a thin rice wrap.
My Chinese girlfriend and I still not figured out where Bami comes from. Most likely from Chinese immigrants to Indonesia. In Mandarin Chinese (1 of the 4 big dialects) it is called "Pan Mee" but according to her in Hokkien it is called "Bah mee" and that would kinda explain the name Bami. It is, and this is a huge tip, the best food on a Sunday morning when you have a slight hangover. Just fry it in a pan.
"Sambal bij?" is a big joke in the Netherlands and sometimes a racist slur. It is a very mild sambal they give though. Ketjap is the name Ketchup came from and Manis means sweet and the other version is salty and called Kecap (Ketjap) Asin.
The filled bun at the start is a Bao or Pau in Chinese and Char Siu Bao is often braised or roasted pork. Wonton is very Chinese and usually served in upscale restaurants in many, many varieties. You don not find them in most Chinese restaurant though, maybe in a simple, almost American version though.
My favorite Chinese dish is Mei Fun or Bee Hoon or Mihun (all the same rice noodles), fried with mushrooms and capsicum and with Babi Pangang on top.
In dutch SPICY means "seasoned" while you guys are expecting something we call HOT. So they are not the same in our dictionary. If you order something spicey you'll get something with great flavour. When you order something hot you'll experience a red face, a runny nose and heavy sweating :)
I love that you just commented this because I do not like HOT food, but love spicy food. I would definitely be missing out if I asked for my food not spicy. I really appreciate this comment a lot. :)
Hi Cas Boots! Thank you very much for the explanation! We will have to keep this in mind from now on when we order food💕. Also, thank you so much for your continued support🥰
I think the best translation for spicy is "pittig". "Heet" means hot indeed, but more in the sense of "warm". At least that how we say it where I'm from. (North Holland).
Better drink milk, when the sambal is to hot. The oil in the peppers does not mix with water. The fat in the milk does. Sugar or kroepoek helps too.
With indonesian (and what alot of people think is chinese) food is fairly simple to translate. For example everything ending with goreng is fried (pisang goreng: gebakken banaan, nasi goreng: gebakken nasi). Everything ending with pangang being roasted (babi pangang is roasted pork).
Important to remember is babi=pork and ajam=chicken😄
Hey guys nice video! The fried banana thing really is a orient thing from origin. In Indonesia this would be called: Pisang Goreng, in Suriname this would be called: Baka-bana and even the Chinese started making their own version of deep fried banana. In the Beginning when the Chinese people started opening their Chinese restaurants (in the 60-ties I think) the Chinese basically found out that the Dutch were not familiar with typical Chinese Foods. But the Dutch did know Indonesian Foods and so the Chinese restaurants in The Netherlands started to make their own version of Indonesian Foods which tasted more or less not like Indonesian Foods and not like Chinese Foods, but basically was good food and lekker :-) ! The name which covers this food made by Chinese-Indonesian restaurants in The Netherlands probably is; Oriental food. Although you would not be able to get this food in The Orient. Similar food, or even the food on which the Chines based their typical Dutch-Oriental food, of course you will be able to get in The Orient. The Chinese really turned out to be very flexible in their ability to switch from typical Chinese foods (which did not sell in The Netherlands in the beginning; due to different taste) into food which did sell: more or less Indonesian foods.
And as I told you guys before; since The Dutch brought together the different people from the different countries (China, Indonesia, India and the local natives of Suriname) as slaves in to The West (for example: Suriname) they got to know the foods of each other...and so started making their own versions of the foods of their fellow slaves in the new country they all lived in. You could say it was the first version of what nowadays would be called; Fusion Foods.
Thank you, Dutchy! I like the term “Fusion Foods”! 😊
People of China, Indonesia, and India never were slaves in The West (as distinct groups), nor were the indigenous peoples of Suriname.
@@onnob You're obviously not very well informed. Please go read the book "het slavenschip de Leusen" by arthor Leonard Willem Balai, (The Slave ship "De Leusen" ) and then react again on my reaction. And that goes for all non-believers when it comes down to Dutch involvement with slavery, and where the Dutch collected their slaves.
Sambal bij??? Lol... I never use the sambal with chinese food...
Love the video. Congrats on 5K subscribers. Onwards to 10k
Thank you very much, Angelique!!!💕
I always gett instandly hungry iff il see you eating :).
A tip if next time you have really hot and spicy stuff again: don’t drink water, because that won’t help. The hot ingredient is oily, so it won’t dissolve in water. Instead, eat a bit of white rice or white bread or drink some milk. That will cool it right away.
For authentic Chinese food you should really try Tai Wu in Rotterdam. And for your next tasting I would suggest Turkish, a popular cuisine in the Netherlands. Some popular dishes are: Kapsalon (an original Rotterdam/Turkish dish), Kebab, Turkisch Pizza (with beef/lamb, chees, onion, tomatoes and icebergsalad) and Borek (with Feta and Spinach).
Hello M de Leeuw! Thank you for the suggestions, and thank you so much for watching us!😊
You guys are really determined to do the Dutch experience all the way, chapeau! Not too many Americans went there before you. Most never make it past the stroopwafels, poffertjes maybe haring if they're really adventures. It is a lot of fun to watch. By the way, did you hear the famous phrase (we say "gevleugelde uitspraak", not sure how to translate that) "sambal bij?", cause that's absolutely an essential part of the experience.
Awww, thank you for the kind words, Hunchback!💕
@@SoultoSoulTravels Oh you're welcome, re-living my childhood here. My Grandma always gave us Chinese takeaway, because she couldn't cook, fond memories. Sort of re-live experiences when I see someone having these sensations for the first time. Can't explain it, but that's why you have 5k subscribers I guess and rightfully so.
'Sambal bij' is just asking if you want sambal with it. just as 'Patat met' ?'. That's if you want fries with mayonaise. Sometimes it's really annoying if people randomly shouting this to me. I'm Chinese by DNA but Dutch as can be. When I worked in a Chinese restaurant, some brutally customers wanted me to say it the stereotypical way. I refused to do that. I used just the full sentence 'Wilt u sambal erbij?'.
@@nerina97 Sounds like people misuse this phrase in a really rude manner. I just remember it as a cute little phrase you heard when your order was ready. Maybe I should be a bit more careful when referring to this.
That looks like some … strange Chinese food. Try a Cantonese restaurant in China Town, The Hague. Let's get some commenting going: I recommend Fat Kee or Full Moon City.
Thank you for the suggestions, Brazen NL!! And thank you for watching us!😊
I said it, I warned you ... in the Indonesian comments (Pisang=banana, Goreng=fried/baked).
En sinds wanneer eten we Chinees zonder een fles pils ... ?
LOL!! Thank you for your continued support, RAW - we really appreciate it!!💕
If a food is too spicy for you to handle, you can really experience almost instant relief by drinking a dairy product. The level of creaminess of the dairy product is responsible for the speed of the relief.
which is why you often get yogurt sauce with Indian dishes :)
sugarcubes work too
If you want really hot food, disregard the warnings in an Indian restaurant :)
Or in a Thai restaurant!
The sambal (hot sauce) you get at the Chinese restaurant is actually the milder version. If you go to a "Toko" they usually have the better/ hotter types of sambal. I would personally recommend the "Madame Jeanette" which is a bit hotter but nothing too crazy.
You could try Indian and Thai food! So delicious! I also had Ethiopian food once and I loved it.
I will add them to the list!! Thank you, MissVindicat ASMR!😊
I agree with the Ethiopian food. Go eat some injera (with your right hand!). Not very well known so I hope it will get some more likes!
I’ve now watched most of your food tasting videos and I must say: you have cracked the code to being Dutch. We love our foreign foods more than our own. I sometimes wonder if that’s what our ‘former’ MP meant when promoting the ‘VOC mentality’.
That being said, YOU ARE NOT ALONE in your quest for spicier food. Food is definitely, just like in the USA, adjusted to local standards 😔 I therefore suggest you’d go to a toko store and buy some of their ready-made stuff. The fewer the Dutch there the better the food will be probably 😉
The Ketjap manis is Indonesian by the way, so you did mix things up a little bit. But then again, quite a few Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands are actually mixed Chinese/Indonesian. And even then it's inevitably adapted to the Dutch palate.
No they are mixed Dutch and Dutch. Nothing Indonesian or Chinese about it🫢🙈
@@MiguelJW This is just wrong, most of these restaurants are run by Chinese or Indonesian immigrants or their offspring. These dishes are the result of them trying to recreate their national dishes using the limited ingredients available at the time in the Netherlands, and adjusting them to the local tastes.
@@InternetCommenter most of them have nothing to do with Chinese or Indonesian food. I can tell as an Indo believe me
As you can see from your video, the restaurants are called "Indisch Chinees". That may give the impression that the food is from India but it refers to the East Indies which, for the Dutch, is Indonesia. There's also the West Indies refering to Curaçao, Aruba, etc. in the Caribbean. Amongst others there are Corean, Thai, Chinese, Indonesian and Surinamese loempias. The ketjap manis is fermented soy sauce with palmsugar. Better than the regular salty soy sauce. Anyway, if you want to go out for dinner order a rijsttafel. You'll be surprised. If you'd like to dive into indonesian cooking, Conimex is the famous brand for the ingredients.
Most of it is derived from Indonesian food with a little bit of Chinese. Tjap Tjoi is Chinees. But the rest is "Indisch". Babi Pangang is Malayan for baked pork, kroepoek (Malayan) is plated, dried and fried shrimps, nasi goreng is Malayan for baked rice, pisang goreng is baked banana (also Indisch). The Chinese in our country used that principle from our colonial past and trew a Indonesian flavour over it. And all of it is adjusted to the dutch taste. Not much Chinese about it..... But it's LEKKER!
Hi Guys! Nice video as always!
Ok, here are my suggestions.
You’ve tackled the big 3 foreign foods we grew up with in The Netherlands now, so for me personally the most obvious next step is the food that chronologically came next for most of us and that is Greek food. Please research a good restaurant (maybe use Tripadvisor?), since Greek food can be a bit hit and miss. Greek food done wrong can be a bit dry.
One of the highlights of eating in a Greek restaurant was always the free shot of Ouzo you got before the meal! We Dutchies LOVE free stuff and couldn’t believe a restaurant would hand out free booze and I believe this gesture contributed greatly to the success of Greek food in The NL back in the day.
Now, you probably won’t get Ouzo when you order takeout, so please make sure to get a bottle of Ouzo at the liquor store (slijterij) when trying it.
Next in line would be Italian food, but you guys probably had a lot of Italian food in The States, right? Maybe this could be more of a comparison video? Find a good Italian restaurant (so no Dominos or NY pizza or anything) and see if it is better, worse or similar than the Italian food you’re used to. There are a lot of great Italian chefs here, which are very proud of the classical Italian kitchen, so a little research goes a long way!
To close this segment of, let’s call these the medium 3 of foreign foods, you should definitely try Turkish / Egyptian food. (Shoarma, Kapsalon, Doner) This food was what I and my friends ate after we went out and is still, decades later, one of the most popular foreign foods around here. You’re gonna love it!
Now I can’t remember if you already did a Snackbar video, where you try Dutch deep fried snacks like bitterballen, kaassouffle, berenklauw and frikandel, but if not: that will definitely be a fan favorite! Make sure to get a good list of what to get at the snackbar from the viewers, since different parts of The NL have different favorites.
Research this well and you’ll have a banger of a video... Just use the words “Dutch snackbar” in the title and you’ll be alright. Maybe use something like: “Will Americans like Dutch snackbar food?” or “These Americans thought they knew deep fried food, but then tried a great Dutch snackbar!” or maybe “American deep fried food vs Dutch Snackbar food. Which is better?”
On a semi related note: Did you guys know that you have one of the best Vietnamese restaurants in The NL in your city: Little V? We unfortunately aren’t that close to Rotterdam, but if we are in the neighborhood we ALWAYS eat there. It is the only place that makes Vietnamese food that's at least as good as my Vietnamese wife makes it herself. We absolutely love their food. Go check them out!
Now most Dutchies only know Vietnamese food from the stalls in the streets where you can buy Vietnamese Loempia’s, so this might not be a very popular video as the other ones will be, but go try it nevertheless. Even if it means doing it of camera. You’re welcome!
I hope I've at least inspired some content idea’s and I’m looking forward to the next video, whatever it may be! You guys rock!
Hi Stephan! Wow! Thank you for all of your great suggestions!! 🥰
Funny to see you have "chinese", while actually, some of it is Indonesian.
Babi pangang for instance, is Indonesian, the chinese version of it is called Cha Siew, and has a different taste.
Wantang on the other hand is chinese.
Here's an easy guide:
Nasi is the Indonesian word for rice.
Ajam is Indonesian for chicken.
Babi is Indonesian for pork.
Goreng is Indonesian for fried.
Pisang is Indonesian for banana.
Ketjap is soy sauce, manis is sweet, asim is salt.
Specially for you Americans:
You wont find much lo mein noodles, instead there's bami.
Mei fun is called mihoen in NL.
Egg foo yong is called foe young hai in NL, but without the grease and burning on it, more like well filled scrambled eggs.
Bean sprouts are called taugé, should be lots of it in a loempia, somewhat comparable to egg rolls.
And here's a funny one:
How to p*ss off an Italian. Ask them wat the Italian word for pizza is :-)
You need to visit the Tong Tong Fair in The Hague. It is the largest festival in the world for Indo (European-Indonesian) culture, held annually in the Netherlands. Many food courts there.
The Chinese food you tried is just like the Chinese food here in the USA adapted for the local palates. Of course, the food you got was also heavily influenced by Indonesian culture, hence the restaurant being Chinees Indisch… To be honest though, I prefer the “Dutchified” Chinese food because of the Indonesian influences. I have to make it myself here in the USA. The one thing you didn’t have with it is atjar tjampoer. It helps with cutting the spice and richness of some of the dishes. That’s if you like pickled veggies.
Gefeliciteerd met jullie 5K + subscribers.. dat verdienen jullie gewoon.. het is heerlijk om jullie zo samen bezig te zien en de humor die jullie samen hebben... en btw.. de Simpsons waren hier ook op tv :)... dus zeggen we met de 5K + ... we choo choo choose you.!.. keep it going x
Awww, thank you for your kind words, Greetje!!! We appreciate you🥰. Yes! It is from the Simpsons😊!!
Find yourself a nice Moluccan friend and ask if their mother or grandmother can make you a good fresh Sambal if you are looking for spicy. They'll be happy to tell you all about it, perhaps even invite you for diner and will certainly show or serve you spices you never even knew existed ;-)
You might like to try Wantan soup with pork vegetables and such a full meal for lunch. You will find a good place on the Kruiskade. It’s just around the corner of the Eendrachtssingel.
Original Chinese food isn't hot, but very outspoken in taste. An acquired taste very few, who are not used to it, would immediately like.
Much of the Chinese cuisine cannot even be imported or made in Europe, because of food regulations. For as far as I know there are no true Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands with real specialties.
In the Dutch East Indies, Chinese people were present in the working class, and some made a living with street corner fast food.
Mostly based on Indonesian/Dutch taste, not too complicated, easy, not outspoken in flavors.
Those were the ones who migrated to the Netherlands and continued their service, and started restaurants. Many Dutch visited because they knew the meals from their time in Indonesia. And other Chinese copied their example. Indonesian people make their own meals at home and only a few Indonesian restaurants exist in The Hague, with original flavors.
It is like looking for Belgian cuisine in fries snack bar.
Go to Utrecht Food Explore (the wall). In the Netherlands we like all you can eat restaurants, and this one is one of the best in my opinion. Many different kinds of food and drinks are also inclusive. .. many Chinese restaurants nowadays do AYCE .. often you choose your ingredients and they wok/cook it for you and you can choose a sauce. Often it is not fantastic.. but you can choose what you want and try and eat as much as possible.. like a buffet but they'll cook your food in front of you.
Nasi goreng was actually food for the poor people. Normal people could have white rice with a piece of meat. Poor people can't afford meat, so they ate day-old rice mixed with leftover vegetables. The old rice and vegetables were fried in a wok. Even now this method is used for nasi goreng. Because if you use freshly cooked rice, the nasi goreng will become too wet and mushy.
This is Chines food, the Dutch version. Everybody eats this when they don't feel like cooking since the 50's. Ste standard food isn't realy spicy
Chinese food in the Netherlands...well, often it is Dutchyfied Indonesian food, with a bit of a Chinese touch...
You should look for a Cantonese restaurant. You now have been with a Indo Chinese restaurant. Which is catering for the Dutch taste. You also have salt sojasauce ketjap asin
Thank you for the Cantonese suggestion, Harry! And thank you so much for your continued support by watching our videos💕
Rofl, love that you found some hotness now. But remember for next time, when you eat something that is that hot there are other thing in the meal that are there to lower the heat. Like the tjap tjoy and the baked banana and even the kroepoek. Then there's no need for the water, because water will only make it worse. If there's no food that cool you down take a spoon of sugar. Greatings and keep up the fun vid.'s ;)
Spicy food really isn't a big thing for the vast majority of dutch people.
It just has never been part of the dutch diet. You'll only find it in asian dishes and most asian dishes served here have taken all the spice out of it.
Not a big thing here.
Babi pangang is actually not a authentic Chinese dish but a dish that was developed by a Dutch Chinese restaurant owner. It’s popularity soon spread through out the entire country to become the most popular chines dish in the Netherlands.
Have you guys tried to eat it with chopsticks? It makes everything better in my opinion. But I guess that's not really dutch hahaha!
You could visit a pancake house, get a pannenkoek met gyros (griekse pannenkoek), my mom & little brother like those a lot.
Ohwww you really shouldn't put Ketjap on food that's already cooked. It's to be used in the kitchen only like a stir fry sauce
Hi. When you eat to much sambal and think it’s too hot. It’s better to eat plain rice instead of drinking water. Drinking water makes it worse.
You guys are giving me an appetite for Chinese. So funny with the hot souse. And Lisa Choe Choe choose me said Ralf 😜
Congratulations on getting 5000 subscribers. Well done! It is so much fun to watch you two, it also makes me hungry 😋. I just realized you haven’t tried Dutch pancakes. In the Netherlands they are eaten as diner or lunch and you can get them with savory fillings. It is a typical Dutch thing. And the place where you can get them is usually called “pannenkoekenhuis”
Hi Inge! Yes! Great suggestion! I added it to the list - Thank you😊
The fan doesn't work with spicey food, guys.... ;)
Altough 1 year later. Chekiang garden is also my chinese of choice in Rotterdam ❤
Hello there, i just came up with your video eatin' my favourite food haha loved your reaction from you after eatin that hot stuff. Keep up with the great content and congrats 😂👍
13:30 You are totally right! It’s roasted pork with a sweet and sour sauce, made of tomatoes, vinegar and a lot of sugar!
Turkish pizza with salad garlic and döner.
Turkish Kapsalon with döner.
Broodje döner.
Thank you for the suggestions, Harry!!😊
Chinese food and being 'hot food' depense on where you are. The more south the hotter the food.
The dutch did know the Indonesian kitchen which was in general, hotter than the Chinese kitchen.
In the netherlands, the chinees kitchen needed to change more towards the indonesian kitchen to get popular.
If you really want to eat Indonesian you need to find a real indonesian restaurant 😊
@10:57 Too hot to handle: I repeat: NO water‼ It will make it worse. Just a little peanut-butter, a tip of the knife.
compared 2 other country''s our spice lvl is nothing, so yh , we might think its hot , but if you are used 2 hotter foods then this , what can i say , it just won't be hot for you XD
You should take your lovely lady out to try good chinese food at restaurant hong kong on the westersingel. It is a real experience!
Just saying use milk not water when it's hot food you've eaten or kroepoek. The fat in it wil take the sharpness away.
Lebanees is also very good. And yes the gebakken(baked) banana i order as a desert . Put some powderd sugar on it 😋
Try Hungarian food shaslik or goulash it is awesome
Again a great video of you guys! Nice way to start the day. Congrats with your 5k subscribers. About the ketjap, there are different sorts of ketjap. The sweet one (manis) and a salty one (asin) and it is in general used in cooking and for marinating meat such as satay/saté.
Hi Sandra! Thank you for the contrats, and thank you for the info on using the ketjap!!😊
You should try the sechuan dishes from the dutch chinese restaurant. They are more spicey. The other dishes are tasty but not spicey. It is a translation of chinese food to the dutch taste.
Hey guys! Another great video!! Elyse insisted we watch Tammy and Eric before our movie on movie night. 🥰
Looking forward to tasting the difference between Americanized Chinese food and "Dutchified" Chinese food 😜 Michael and I commented how delicious the food on your plates looked! Michael would love a plate full of all the "HOT" food. As for me, I like it "spicy". 😜 Also, the banana thing looked DELICIOUS!! I'll take a plate of those please!
Can’t wait until you guys get here!
@Daring2GoDutch We hope that Elyse will always be our biggest fan💕❤️😍🥰
We dutch poeple are raised with Chinese food its reallly awesone!!
Thanks again for the video.... I love it how you explore the different foods The Netherlands have to offer..
"it's like a Spaghetti.." Now you know where Spaghetti originated from... LOL
BTW if your food is too hot... you'd better not drink water...
BTW What we call "Chinese" usually is Indo-chinese... It originates from the eating habits of the Chinese community in the former Dutch-Indish.. Original Chinese is also available and is different in taste.
Hi Eddy! Thank you so much for your continued support💕
Sambal oelek is nice not too spicey is nice when you mixed in your food
Power puff Girls, watched almost all the video's. Sugesstion visite the Efteling( amusement park). Wish you the best, greetings from Tilburg.
Hello tommy! Thank you very much for watching and commenting! Didn’t know that the Power Puff Girls said that as well (neither of us have watched the PPG’s), it is also said in the Simpsons! 😊
You should buy some Sambal Brandal from the supermarket or Toko. It's different from the Sambal Oelek the Chinese take-away restaurant will give you. Brandal is Indonesian for little rascal. 😉
Oh, that sounds dangerous🥵!! Like something that burns coming and going😉. Thank you very much for watching and commenting, LogiForce86💕
Congratulations on the 5K achieved!🥳 😃🥳 very deserved👍!
Tip for the baked banana: add some powdered sugar! lovely 😋
I always eat them as a last...small dessert. 😇
Thank you, yolo! And thank you for the powdered sugar suggestion - it sounds lekker!!💕
The spicy oil isn't Chinese. The Ketchap is the sweet version (Manis)
I see Vietnamese mini spring rolls (Lumpia's ). Not Chinese :). That's street food here in the NL, they sell them a lot at markets, ever since the 80s when the Vietnamese boat people came. Pisang Goreng, fried banana is Indonesian, not Chinese :) The Wantong is Chinese.. Ketcap = soysause... you sprinkle it on fried rice or friend noodles., same as the redpepper sause/sambal. Bami... can be Chinese or malay or Indonesian.. That little red bag is Sambal Ulek I think, medium hot..Indonesian. Water doesn't help against hot, the fried sweet banana would have.. Babi Pang-hang...roasted, marinated pig meat. I'd call that Malau or Indonesian again. Kecap (ketjap) Manis = sweet soy sause, don't use too too much, you'll over power the food if you do. (Manis = sweet in malay). Go to a real Vietnamese restaurant. Very different from Indo-Chinese. or to a Indian Restaurant and have a nice curry.. etc.. Ulek = a mortar to grind the redpeppers... lot's of nice recepies for sambal on you tube! Make your own, it's easy.. Try find a Chinese, Chinese restaurant, and the food will be different, Most here in the NL are a mix of Dutch/Indonesian and Chinese tastes. There is a very good Vietnamese restaurant in Deventer city. vietfoodsdeventer get the vietnamese soup with the weird name.. "Pho" it is really good... it has French/Vietnamese roots..
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Well jou have done it again....i am hungry again and i just had my dinner! Next thing to try is maybe a " broodje shoarma met knoflooksaus ". A good chipchop Wil have them or a Greek restaurant! Thanks again for a superb video. It made smile.....and hungry. 😂🥰🙋♀️
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I think that half the dishes were Indonesian!: Babi Pangang, nassi, kroepoek, ketjap and sambal. Most restaurants here are in fact Chinees/Indisch and what you had was a typical mixture of both. For 'real' Chinees food I think you will need to go a bit up-market and choose a Cantonese, Peking, Mongolian, or another Chinese region restaurant. There are many regions each with its own unique cuisine.
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I thought pisang goreng was indonesian though....
Hi Guys, Nice that you were able to add yet another food tasting to your experience! As for that Sambal (the red stuf in the little bags) In my experience some chinese restaurants make it themselves and then the spiciness can sometimes be much hotter than 'standard'. But on average it's indeed not too hot. It does add a nice flavour and a little bite to the food though ...
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The babi panggang you ate is a typical Dutch-Chinese dish, only available in The Netherlands :-) Babi panggang, an Indonesian word, means barbeque pork and in Asia this is barbequed pork belly. Because many people do not like fat, Chinese restaurants in The Netherlands made lean barbequed pork, in Dutch babi panggang mager (= lean). Babi panggang is a well known dish in The Netherlands, but many Dutchmen were disappointed when they could not find it nowhere in Asia.
The baked banana is not Chinese but Indonesian, called pisang goreng.
Nasi, bami, babi panggang, chap choy, foo yong hay (chinese omelet) are Chinese take away dishes many Dutch families eat, especially during weekends. On Saturday and Sunday evenings the take away corner of Chinese restaurants are packed with Dutchies waiting for their food.
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I am glad you did not bought foe young hai because that was invented in holland: basically it is an omelet with too much sause and labeled chinese dish
better with Madame Jeanette sambal the yellow sambal
Babi Pangang is not really a Chinese dish. It's something Chinese based that is specially invented for the Dutch market. You can't get it in any other countries. The thing that comes closest that is original Chinese is Cha Sieuw. :-) And I agree with some of the comments. Spicy is seasoned not Hot. Also, I think it will matter which region in China the family is from who owns the restaurant you went to. The Szechuan region has dishes that are really hot. Also, go to restaurants where Chinese people will also go to that way you have original dishes (except Babi Pangang, that's so common in The Netherlands that almost all Chinese restaurants have it on the menu). Good luck and happy hunting! Tjap Tjoy is a very mild dish so yeah no wonder you want hot sauce with it if that's what you like. You could put Sambal on it. Not Sambal Manis (like Ketjap Manis it's more sweet than hot). But try Sambal Brandal or ask in a toko which one is the hottest.
Hi Veerle! Thank you so much for watching us!! We ate at a Chinese restaurant for lunch today and we think that we were just about the only non-chinese people in the place!! We were not disappointed!! 😊
Congrats on getting 5000 subscribers! So i was thinking maybe do a tour of the Netherlands and check out the foods that are specific for that province. I'm from Friesland. We have Fryske Dumkes. Those are cookies with anise that aren't sold outside Friesland. We also have oranjekoek. It's a reference to the connection with the House of Orange, since king Willem-Alexanders ancestor came from Leeuwarden. As Frisians we're even arrogant enough to say that all current kings and queens of Europe have a common ancestor who came from Leeuwarden. Btw, fun fact about oranjekoek. You'd think the top was orange, but it's actually pink.
While you visit Terschelling go and eat at Zeezicht. Try their cranberry cheesecake. It's delicious. Erik can drink it with warm chocomel and whipped cream. It's a little tradition in our family. Cranberry isn't native to the Terschelling, but during a shipwreck the fruit settled in Terschelling and you can find it there a lot. They also sell delicious cranberry tea. You can also find jutter likeur. It's an alcoholic drink that's perhaps not for everybody.
There is also beerenburg and beerenburg chocolates in Leeuwarden. I know Erik wasn't to keen on them before, but there are some different types of beerenburg. Also, try it with cola. And then there is sugar bread, frisian sausage, beer, cheese and mustard.
Btw, while you're in Friesland, check out the story of Grutte Pier. To the frisians he was a freedom fighter. Though most dutch people would disagree with that statement. It's also where the saying: "Bûter, brea en griene tsiis, wa't dat net sizze kin, is gjin oprjochte Fries" comes from. If you were unable to pronounce that, he'd knock your head off. A replica of his sword is in the Frisian museum. It's over 6ft. And be sure to get a tour from A Guide to Leeuwarden. They'll tell you all about Leeuwardens connection to Escher and Mata Hari along with a lot of other note worthy things.
Hello Nynke! Thank you so much for these suggestions! We are looking forward to exploring different regions of the country and your info will help us a great deal!😊
Hi folks, i found you over on TH-cam, thanks for the videos.. I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction. I own a recruiting company that is 100% on line/remote.. What would i need to do to live in the NL legally? I would still run my business but this tome from the NL. I have a 14 YO boy so i assume I would need to enroll him on a international school or private.. Any guidance you can provide would be great.
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my local chinese restaurant, just has sambal, and if you are used to hotter then just that, its not hot, that said i like that taste of it when i mix it true my bami or nasi.
Learned rrom an Indonesian friend: when your food is too hot eat some sugar, it works better than water.
If you like hot sambal - the one in the sachets was probably Sambal Oelek - try Surinaamse Sambal. It’s supposedly one of the spiciest sambals. Also, if something is too spicy drink milk or something sweet. Water and sparkling beverages are just going to make things worse. I learned that the hard way. 🙈
Hi Emma,
It’s milk next time I guarantee it!! Thanks for watching!!! I do love Sambal, I’ll give it a try.
Thanks, Eric
you choo choo choose me...the Simpsons
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Are you some of those Americans that don't use their knives?
Who doesn't like gebakken banaan? ;-) Try the Indonesian pisang goreng when you have a opportunity, for some next level gebakken banaan. Good luck with your channel, it's fun to watch
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Its a Chinees Indisch restaurant so its not that spicy and more catered to the dutchie taste. But yes gebakken banaan are aces.
Thank you!! One of my questions is how different foods will taste. When I was stationed in Germany KFC was so much better than the US.
The tastes will be noticeable in fast food restaurants because of the non-use of artificial flavors and chemicals. For example, the chicken nuggets at McDonald’s here seem to be real chicken and not processed.
Dutchified - several comments on that. Whatever. The point is that these restaurants are called "Chinees-Indisch" where the "indisch" is short for Indonesian. As loads of Chinese had traveled to different countries in their version of diaspora, there was a significant fraction of Chinese people in Indonesia in the Dutch colonial age. After Indonesia's independence, there have been episodes of gruesome ethnic cleansing in Indonesia and racially different and mixed people fled Indonesia to the Netherlands. The Chinese-Indonesian fraction and the European-Indonesian primarily. And these brought an already mixed cuisine with them. Where the Dutch-Indonesian mixed people may have had very good educational backgrounds and were well capable of the Dutch language, it was not too difficult for these to integrate, but for the Chinese-Indonesian group this was more difficult and hence we saw lots of these restaurants pop up in all sorts of places. In general, the Chinese aspect dominated their cuisine. Because of the intermediate step from China via Indonesia to the Netherlands, the character of this cuisine had changed from the original versions - different in regions - in China and generally, the quality level was "comfort food" - far away from "haute cuisine". With the evolution of Dutch restaurant business to higher levels of cuisine, the Chinese-Indonesian restaurants - often had not been integrated well - missed that development and hence because the cuisine ladder extended up, they stayed at the bottom end of cheap comfort food. With some of the families in these business having made sure their children integrated and connected once again to their Chinese roots, some have risen to a much higher level of quality on the original (region-specific) Chinese cuisine's ladder.
This "comfort food" aspect also applied to "real" Indonesian cuisine that you can buy in this country in Indonesian style tokos (toko means shop). In taste and color, these Asian comfort foods are a step above basic Dutch comfort food, I would say. And in all these cases, it is possible to stay close to the original recipes and prepare and serve them at Michelin star level. The opposite can happen. I once was guest to a banquet where Indonesian courses were served. Before anything got served, the Indonesian head chef addressed the collective guests, saying that he had been restricted by budget. He was implying that he felt it was not good enough, not up to his par. Well, the ingredients were of excellent quality but it all had a simplicity that made it very bland. Between the islands in the Indonesian archipelago, there are significant differences in their respective cuisines and I can imagine that West Java differs from East Java, even. It's all huge and so is the population and their cultures.
In China, the North may actually "look down" on the rice eater peasants in the South and they will eat wheat-based noodles instead. The written language may be the same, but the spoken ones can differ a lot. And so do recipes and preferences.
One thing that is more or less a constant factor - in my opinion and taste - is the wok. The origin of the wok is fuel shortage and preparation is based on melting animal (pig) fat in the bottom of the wok and searing ingredients quickly in that, as a way to sterilize and tenderise. Seared ingredients are shifted up to the side and here pick up some heat still. Some broth may be added and when "done" after some up-down rotation, everything has a glazed layer of fatty broth on it - the taste of wok. No matter how delicate, it tastes like wok. And that - is not for me.
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The restaurant is highly recommended: the taste of Africa. De smaak van Afrika. In Rotterdam in the center. Ostrich, crocodile. Just to name 2 special ones
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Hi. Dutch woman living in Spain here. Jealous of seeing you tasting many of my favorite things over the months. Looove you two xx. Going to subscribe now.!
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Anothere fun video. On Katendrecht you can do a guide walk and learn more about the first Chinese families in the Netherlands. One word of advice drink milk or chocomel when food is to spicy. Water only gets it worse. Next try Bram Ladage.
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The Sambal our chinese restaurants use 99% of the time is Oelek the least spiciest when it comes the chilly paste so yeah definitely not spicy even tho it taste good. You want spice either take dishes with 3 or more chillies behind them or buy your own sambal from either a supermarket or an asian toko ( store), since some supermarkets do not have a lot of choice in sambals. Hugs from Groningen! 🇱🇺❤️
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Drink cold beer with the chineese, it is wunderfull
If you like spicy chinese food look for a szechuan or Sichuan chinese restaurant and make sure they didn't ajust the taste to dutch taste (which would be less spicy)
And suggestion..try african food
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