This video was so much fun to film because Amsterdam is so pretty and the food was also so delicious! We're still dreaming of the fries and believe it or not, we have taken the packets of Hagelslag and Kokosbrood onto our travels and once in a while we will make a yummy Dutch treat with them. Brandon has even combined both of them into a grilled toastie before (I hope that is not a crime in the eyes of the Dutch) 😅. Let us know what your favourite Dutch street food is. Do you prefer hot or cold Stroopwafel? And which foods did we miss? Make sure to check out our other video in Amsterdam where we tried other dishes from the Netherlands: th-cam.com/video/_fiKxEaYpuA/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for watching! ☺ - Brandon & Anja
Broodje hagelsag is still eaten by adults. You can also do the hagelslag between a hard and/or soft bun or on a beschuit. Stroopwafels cold from the supermarket. Krokets in the Netherlands NEVER contains potatoes, it is a stew from for example beef, chicken saté and so on. The bami kroket is called a bami schijf.
Ketel 1 is jonge jenever, young as in the new production method. Gin is derived from the old and superior production method used for 'oude jenever'. This 'old' jenever is a different drink basically, is much more sophisticated and ages very well, so lots of those are ages but that is not why it's named 'old jenever'. Dutch brreakfast is bread with whatever you feel like that morning for one of several slices of bread, chocolate sprinkles is an option for many too. I always felt more like cheeses and meats, also a kid.
Oooh, I see! Thanks for the information. We were originally planning on heading to "De Drie Fleschje" to try a few different types of jenever, but we ended up running out of time. We really had no clue what to even buy, so it would've been helpful to have a bartender help us choose. We actually still have both the hagelslag and kokosbrood we bought when we filmed this. We had some the other day! Good even a few months later. 😂
@@wherearewe-yt It needs to be because lots of Dutch have a hagelslag on their brand only for variation. I personally don't understand jonge jenever, I don't like it and don't see how others like it, I ignored oude jenever for far too long because I assumed it was similar. It isn't.
@@wherearewe-ytPlease go to Schiedam. The "birthplace" of Jenever (ketel 1) We still have the highest windmills in the world, and a Jenever museum, where you can taste all. ❤
I may have eaten 20 fresh stroopwafels from the market in my life. I think I ate at least 500 prepackaged stroopwafels in my life, probably more, like 2000. There are also all the mini-stroopwafels...
I put my stroopwafel on my hot coffee mug to warm it up a little. When I was a kid I microwaved them. If cold, I prefer to eat a bag of the "koekkruimels". It's the leftover cookie bits in a bag, tastes so good for some reason.
I could see that being true! I used to absolutely hate licorice. The more I try it, the less offensive it becomes. Though I don't think I could ever love the super salty versions!
@@wherearewe-ytyeah it’s more common as a snack high schoolers get if they’re allowed to step out of campus grounds (sometimes you aren’t allowed to leave school premises during breaks)
as a dutchy the classic way to eat stroopwaffels is with a warm beverage (like tea or coffee) and we have those store bought ones. than you take thos and put them ontop of ur cup, to make it a little soft and warm, so the caramel is a but softer and smoother and that how i like em most (also, we have them coverd in white n milk chocolate, and those are BOMB but really sweet)
This is the way we like to do it as well! It still retains its chew this way, but it's still a little warm. We'd like to try one dipped in chocolate sometime. I'm sure it would be delicious!
A lot of places outside of Amsterdam have ‘patat flip’ which is basically the peanut and mayo without the unions. I grew up in the Hague. My mother ran a cafeteria (place to get fries and snack). And she refused to sell a ‘dish’ called ‘war’. So it was ‘flip’ (peanut sause and mayo) and flip with unions.
We actually quite like it with the onions, but even without, they would be amazing. Editing that video made us crave them all over again. They're literally perfect. 🥺
The herring you had wasn't raw just as the Matjes from Bremen. Just because there wasn't any heat involved in the cocking process doesn't mean food is not cooked. It's fermented, a bio chemical cocking process you found in many different foods or beverages. Tea, coffee, chocolate, cheese, dryed (and/or smoked, salted) meat/fish, Sauerkraut , Kimchi....all of them are cooked and not raw. Thank you guys for sharing your food experience from all around the world. Liebe Grüße from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg.
Gotcha! That makes sense. The flavor was so mild, that it was hard to tell. It tasted very fresh! Especially compared to the store bought version we had in Bremen.
I checked what you wrote here again, because I don't completely agree with it and AI writes the following: You are right that pickling and fermenting are two different processes. It is a common misconception to think that herring, as traditionally eaten in the Netherlands, is fermented. Here is how it works: - **Picking** is a preservation method in which fish (such as herring) is preserved in a salt solution. This process draws moisture from the fish and inhibits bacterial growth, but it does not lead to fermentation. The taste of pickled herring is therefore salty rather than sour. - **Fermenting** is another process in which bacteria, yeasts or fungi are used to convert sugars in food into acids, alcohol or gas. This often gives a sour taste, such as with sauerkraut or kimchi. Herring from the herring cart does not undergo this process. Dutch herring (Hollandse Nieuwe) is not fermented; it is salted and matured. The maturation breaks down enzymes and gives the fish its characteristic flavor, but this is not fermentation in the classical sense. So you have a good point: if herring was really fermented, it would indeed have a sour taste, which is not how traditional herring with onions is perceived. 😊
I love your video. I live in Amsterdam, on foot just 10 minutes away from the Albert Cuijp market. I only eat stroopwafels cold, and do not feel tempted to buy a warm stroopwafel. Great you liked the raw herring! The thing you had for breakfast (was it a frikandel broodje?) is not a breakfast thing for the Dutch.
We're happy you enjoyed it! That was a really beautiful area. We enjoyed walking around there. Nice park as well! It seems we're not the only ones who prefer the cold. Cold, or mildly heated up at the top of a coffee cup, is the best way. 👌 We're big seafood lovers, so I knew we would enjoy..I'm from Nova Scotia, on the East Coast of Canada. So I grew up with a lot of seafood! Any towns or cities located near the sea make me feel at home. 😃
Im so happy you like our food. I wanted to say to Canada: thanks to your country we were liberated thank you. And to the german princess I wanted to say : Vielen Dank, dass Sie Ihr Nachbarland besucht und das Essen genossen haben. und mögest du gemeinsam viele wundervolle Abenteuer erleben.
We really enjoyed ourselves! The food was amazing. I remember learning all about that in school, during history class. I'm glad we were able to help! 🇨🇦 🇳🇱
23:33 I don't know why they sell the frikandels like that in those Febo like snack-from-the-wall places, it should be sliced lengthwise with diced onions and mayo and curry or ketchup in it. Aka frikandel speciale.
Both of Anja's parents, and my own father, also love licorice! We didn't inherit that gene. I think I'm slowly getting used to is, but I still don't love it.
Jenever or 'gin' is indeed a Dutch spirit. Actually English Gin got it's name from the original Dutch Jenever. The English liked Jenever so much that they tried to make their own kind. Jenever was pronounced by the English as 'Ginever' and they shortened it to just 'Gin'. Same with pancakes. Pancakes are a Dutch invention and when they sailed to the New World and founded New Amsterdam they brought the recipy with them and made them there just like at home. The Dutch word 'pannekoek' became phonetically translated in America as 'pancake'. Wich in English language actually makes no sense because a pancake is not a cake :)
Very interesting! Thanks for the information. We were told that the Ketel 1 we drank is a "jonge jenever", which is brewed in the new production method. Possibly why it tastes different? We have no basis of comparison, as it's the only Jenever we tried. It tasted much different than any of the British gins we've ever had. Our original plan was to go to a bar called De Drie Fleschjes, where we could try a variety. The rain had other plans, and we ran out of time! The "pancakes" that I grew up with are certainly a lot more cake like than the original flat, crepe like versions you have in the Netherlands. But that's often the case! The UK takes things, changes them, and by the time they get to North America, they're typically something completely different. Haha.
Hagelslag is for every age. The dark chocolate one on white bread (with butter) can't go wrong. The only danger is that you keep wanting another one and another one and another one... lol. We also have essbare papier (eetpapier) in The Netherlands. Indeed nothing like kokosbrood. My brother was addicted to kokosbrood as a kid.
As we've told a few others, we've actually been traveling with both our hagelslag and kokosbrood (they've come to multiple countries with us). Even though we are both living out of a single suitcase, we always find room for it because we love them both so much. We actually made ourselves some the other day, but it's almost all gone! Sad times.
Seeing as I’m from the town that invented the chocolate hagelslag I’ll tell you the history 😂 Haa-gul-slag. The a in slag is like “ah😢 you fell?” The g is the same as in hagel. The g/h sound. 1908 A licorice maker invented white sprinkles with anise seed during a cold autumns day. Spices and cold weather you know. It was hailing as well. Hagel means hail so dots got connected. They continued to produce anise seed sprinkles for years (till the mid 1950’s) They were white but later came in colours baby blue and light pink. We use primarily during gender reveal parties and baby showers. They get sprinkled on a piece of buttered rusk or toast. 1913 A chocolate factory from my town (we have so many it always smells like wet cocoa here lol) introduced chocolate sprinkles. It got popular QUICK and loads of chocolate factories decide to produce them. One big brand called Venz produced them with the name chocolade hagel. Meaning chocolate hail since another brand called Venco trademarked hagelslag. But we call them all hagelslag now. Slag means “slash” or “strike”/ “blow” like with a sword. So it’s kind of a cool name that kinda means hail strike instead of struck by lightning. Neerslag for example means precipitation. Cause the guy that invented it got struck with a hailstorm? Get it? Struck with hail with a chocolate flavour 😂
Your town smells like wet cocoa??? We need to visit! Hahaha. Hail strike. Sounds pretty metal for a food item that's so cute! 😂 We really want to try those Muisjes sprinkles. Someone else mentioned them in the comments as well! Had NO idea that was a thing. We have so many thing to try for next time!
Herring is excellent medicine against a bad headache. Take 2 ones with not to much onions (it nutralise the effect) and eat them. With second its totally gone here Years ago in Bruges i had in morning almost a migraine. But it was such a beautiful summer day and didn't want laying on bed. So i went in morning to fish marked and took 2 maatjes - yep the belgium call them maatjes- and i was after eating them healed of it.
That makes sense! It was super creamy, so it totally felt like it. We used to live in Spain, and used to eat potato kroket, and also bechamel with jamon, all the time. I love them. Anja can take them or leave em'. Haha.
When i have stroopwafel from the store i put it on top of my hot coffee(cup), the coffee heats up the stroopwafel, don't do it to long because it then gets soaky.
5:58 You just triggered a keyword on me: KAYA. I've been interested to eat Singapore Kaya Toast, but here where I live in the Netherlands I can't get any kaya jam, what a pity! But now that I know that KOKOS BREAD is akin like KAYA, I'm fine with it. I'll just use a piece of kokos 'bread' as a substitute.
We love kaya! Is there not any Indonesian shops that sell it?? There's a website called "Oriental Webshop" from the Netherlands that has it for less than 4 Euro. You should order it and try it! So worth it.
Poffertjes look good. But real fluffy American pancakes cannot be beat. They put the "cake" in pancake. You can't always get good ones out, they are too flat and cooked with too much fat in the pan. Those fries look amazing. Good selection of foods to try. Now I have to go look up all the dishes. Hi from a very cold Oregon.
The poffertjes were so good! I'm obsessed with buttermilk pancakes back home. Anja prefers German/ Dutch style, for sure. The fries were some of the best we've had, easily! Can't beat that sate/ Dutch mayo combo. Thanks for watching!
We eat sandwiches for breakfast with chocolate sprinkles or marmalade or cheese or whatever. 60-90% cocoa is the best Hagelslag . The extra puur hagelslag is better. That sausage roll is a snack or for people in a hurry. Most of us eat full grain or brown breads. White bread isn’t that healthy. The raw herring you ate isn’t really raw. It’s called maatjesharing and is identical to Matjes from Bremen. Next time you’re in the Netherlands, try Kapsalon fries. Indonesian food has to be eaten when it’s hot. Drop is a daily treat for me but it’s an acquired taste. You eat it when you want to.
The hagelslag we had was so good. We'd love to try other versions. We've been told the brand we tried isn't actually the best! Now we'd like to try some other brands. The person on reddit mislead me! Someone said that must be a teenager. 😂 That's interesting about the herring! It seems like rather than a proper pickeling, it's like a light brine. It tasted MUCH better than the store bought maatjes we bought. Kapsalon fries were on our list of foods to try, bought we lost a full day of filming because it wouldn't stop raining. We had to choose between the war fries or the Kapsalon, so we decided on the war fries. We will try it next time we return to a different city in the Netherlands! 😃
Oh, haha, that makes sense then. The Dutch one was definitely better, though, since it tasted so fresh 😊. The one we tried in Bremen was prepacked from the supermarket 😆.
Have to say, eating fries from a ‘puntzak’ (paperbag) just makes the experience so much better, eventhough you’ll have issues with equally distributing the sause🤣.
In the Netherlands they don't fried in beef because it's banned. That's still a pitty. As a Dutchman everytime i visit Belgium i stop for their fries because they are so much better than here. Always fresh and mostly fried in beef oil.
We've had them in Belgium before, but only once! It's kind of hard to remember how they compared. We'll just have to head back there and try them again. 😎
That's interesting. Thanks for explaining. I looked up the pronunciation at the time when we were in Amsterdam, but the voice either said it wrong or I did not pay enough attention to hear the difference.
We really want to come back and explore more more of the country, so it's nice we still have some things to try next time! Pannenkoek, kapsalon, koekkruimels, Hertog Jan beer..plus, we're looking forward to trying some regional specialties!
I would say De Ruijter for 'vlokken' (chocolate flakes) and 'muisjes' (little round balls made of aniseed that you put on rusk, we traditionally eat those with the birth of a baby). However I would go with Venz for 'hagelslag.' De Ruijter's hagelslag specifically isn't as good as Venz's. Venz are known for their hagelslag.
Kroketten don't have mashed potato inside! It's a roux. Unless they are called aardappelkroket, then they have only potato inside. Also a bamischijf is not called a kroket.
Yeah, we noticed that after! We used to live in Spain, where there are a variety of kroket as well. Bechamel based, potato based, or with a roux. It's hard to tell sometimes, with such a smooth texture! Haha.
I am Dutch and also on team cold! Had stroopwafels since I was born some half century ago, and I do like a hot one, but cold just adds anlther dimension with the chewyness in mu opinion. Most people I know here disagree though. I do have to say the quality of the fresh ones is unparalleled and I occasionally huh one at the market and let it cool down before I eat it.
@@wherearewe-yt I think that Dutch adults generally eat brown bread with toppings in the morning, such as cold cuts and of course cheese, and drink coffee, milk or orange juice. But it was a good video, keep it up.
Nice vlog. How did you know that French fries were actually Belgium fries ? The Belgiums are known for inventing fries but their fries are usually thicker than Dutch fries. Oh yeah eating fries out of a paper bag like you did in Amsterdam is not normal in the rest of the country. In other parts of the country you get a plastic horizontal container you put the fries in and have a separated space within that plastic container for the sauces like mayo and sate sauce. Eating fries from a paper bag can be quite messy with the sauces on top. Cant dip the bottom fries in sauce that way. A lot of fries shops removed the word war fries from menus and named it something else like fries flip but fries shop owners all know what is still. We also had something called Jew cookies at Albert Heijn supermarket but that name was banned as well. I always hear Americans say there are mashed potatoes in our krokets but there is only beef stew, sate or vegetables in them no mashed potatoes. I can predict what you are going to say now, that you are not American. I know eh. Dutch people love Canadians ever since they freed us in the second world war. The Americans always brag about them freeing Europe but they came in after the Canadians and British had been fighting the Germans for years. Canadians played a significant role in the liberation of the Netherlands. There is a video on TH-cam called "Canadian veterans celebrated in the Netherlands". It is a video where you see old Canadian veterans walking in a parade in The Netherlands being thanked by Dutch people, even teens and children shaking their hands. This parade was held until 8 / 9 years ago every year since 1945. Now most Canadian veterans are too old to come here to walk in a parade but I can recommend watching the video it is only 10 minures long. P.s. The Netherlands sent 20.000 flower bulbs to Ottawa every year to remember the Canadians liberating us. 10.000 flower bulbs are from the people of The Netherlands and 10.000 are from our Royal Family who fled to Canada in the war. Dutch princess Margriet was born in Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa. The maternity ward of the hospital was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government.[This ensured that the newborn would not be born in Canada, and not be a British subject under the rule of jus soli. Instead, the child would only inherit Dutch citizenship from her mother under the principle of jus sanguinis, which is followed in Dutch nationality law. Thus, the child would be eligible to succeed to the throne of the Netherlands. This would have applied if the child had been male, and therefore heir apparent to Queen Juliana, or if her two older sisters died without eligible children. I am telling you this but you probably already know !
We've been to Belgium before! We also watch a lot of TH-cam, so we've heard it been said many times. It's great that the paper cone is more environmentally friendly, but it's certainly not the most convenient if you're looking for proper sauce distribution. Someone else mentioned the war fries name change, but we've never heard of the "Jew cookies". Wish we could have tried them! I know exactly what you mean. That is always the American perspective, but us Canadians know better. Especially since we actually learn world history, and not just Canadian history, skewed in our favor. Haha. I will check out that video! That's super interesting about Dutch princess Margiret. I've been to Ottawa before, but I've never heard this fact. Very cool!
@wherearewe-yt Jew cookies are still being sold in supermarkets but I dont know under which name. Next time you come to the Netherlands you can also try Tompouce and Bossche Bollen. Just look 'm up on TH-cam or Google. By the way snacks normal kroket and frikandel are the most sold snacks in fries shops in The Netherlands. You know the snack you guys tought looked like a wrinkley willy. Lol
Oh it's so hard. That's what she said😂 9 out of 10 pastries you need to warm up. Frikandel broodje cold is not the way how to eat is. Same as stroopwafels, Saucijzenbroodje etc.
She said, "Oh, it's so hard.. I don't know if you're supposed to suck them", which makes it even worse. 😂 The Frikandelbroodje would have definitely been a lot better if it were heated up. It wasn't actually too bad cold, though! We'd like to try one again, though.
@@wherearewe-yt I always heat it up in a oven but also 30 second in the microwave because the pastry will dry out and burn to fast. Hmm I think I missed that last part btw🤣👊
I would NEVER eat sugar free, mild zoute (hard) muntdrop. I would eat the ones with sugar and preferably soft sweet variety. Those hard coins really stick to you pallet and can take 10 minutes to get rid of.
Yeah, it was on the list! We lost a whole day due to rain, so we didn't manage to fit everything in. We decided that we had to choose between kapsalon and the war fries, so we ended up going with the latter. Next time!
No, why would you think that? Do you mean, because I said that you cannot get Indonesian food pretty much any where in Europe? 😆 I meant anywhere ELSE. 😇😊 To be honest, I'm not great at stringing a logical sentence together. Not sure why I do TH-cam. Ask Brandon, he is the editor and has to deal with it and fix my gibberish every day 🤣.
From what I've read, it's "soaked in a mild preserving liquid" rather than straight up pickled, which is which it tastes so different from other pickled herring.
No no, don't use unions and pickels with the haring, in the old days when they had no cooling they used unions on haring when the fish wasn't so fresh enymore so you woulden't taste it.
Oh, really? Don't most places still serve it with both onion and pickle? We quite liked it like that! The fish was super fresh, though. It didn't really need either.
This video was so much fun to film because Amsterdam is so pretty and the food was also so delicious! We're still dreaming of the fries and believe it or not, we have taken the packets of Hagelslag and Kokosbrood onto our travels and once in a while we will make a yummy Dutch treat with them. Brandon has even combined both of them into a grilled toastie before (I hope that is not a crime in the eyes of the Dutch) 😅. Let us know what your favourite Dutch street food is. Do you prefer hot or cold Stroopwafel? And which foods did we miss? Make sure to check out our other video in Amsterdam where we tried other dishes from the Netherlands: th-cam.com/video/_fiKxEaYpuA/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for watching! ☺ - Brandon & Anja
A frikandellen broodje and energy drink is for students, because it’s cheap. I think most Dutch have a healthier start of the day.
I'm sure it was a student who said this because no one else seems to do this. 😂
Broodje hagelsag is still eaten by adults. You can also do the hagelslag between a hard and/or soft bun or on a beschuit. Stroopwafels cold from the supermarket.
Krokets in the Netherlands NEVER contains potatoes, it is a stew from for example beef, chicken saté and so on.
The bami kroket is called a bami schijf.
We still have our Hagelslag pack and we're still eating it here and there 😊. So we're not the only adults, haha. Thanks for watching and commenting! 🙂
Ketel 1 is jonge jenever, young as in the new production method. Gin is derived from the old and superior production method used for 'oude jenever'. This 'old' jenever is a different drink basically, is much more sophisticated and ages very well, so lots of those are ages but that is not why it's named 'old jenever'.
Dutch brreakfast is bread with whatever you feel like that morning for one of several slices of bread, chocolate sprinkles is an option for many too. I always felt more like cheeses and meats, also a kid.
Oooh, I see! Thanks for the information. We were originally planning on heading to "De Drie Fleschje" to try a few different types of jenever, but we ended up running out of time. We really had no clue what to even buy, so it would've been helpful to have a bartender help us choose.
We actually still have both the hagelslag and kokosbrood we bought when we filmed this. We had some the other day! Good even a few months later. 😂
@@wherearewe-yt It needs to be because lots of Dutch have a hagelslag on their brand only for variation. I personally don't understand jonge jenever, I don't like it and don't see how others like it, I ignored oude jenever for far too long because I assumed it was similar. It isn't.
@@wherearewe-ytPlease go to Schiedam. The "birthplace" of Jenever (ketel 1) We still have the highest windmills in the world, and a Jenever museum, where you can taste all. ❤
Nice video guys. The kaassoufflé is realy good with peanut sauce too😁
Honestly, I think almost ANYTHING would be good with satesaus. We're obsessed. 😂
I may have eaten 20 fresh stroopwafels from the market in my life.
I think I ate at least 500 prepackaged stroopwafels in my life, probably more, like 2000. There are also all the mini-stroopwafels...
Someone in the comments also told us about koekkruimels, and now we really want to try!
I put my stroopwafel on my hot coffee mug to warm it up a little.
When I was a kid I microwaved them.
If cold, I prefer to eat a bag of the "koekkruimels". It's the leftover cookie bits in a bag, tastes so good for some reason.
Ooooh! We would have loved to try koekkruimels. That sounds amazing. Haha. Do they make ice cream with those?? That would be so good.
Lirorice is quite addictive.
I think it has the same curve as coffee. Once you get over the taste the first time, you're hooked. Or tabacco.
I could see that being true! I used to absolutely hate licorice. The more I try it, the less offensive it becomes. Though I don't think I could ever love the super salty versions!
Hey, from St.Catharines Ontario!!! So happy to have found you two!!! Excited to share your travels. Wish my son's to travel this way in the future!
Welcome! Always happy to have a fellow Canadian on board.
Frikandelbrood is not breakfast, it is a snack.
Guess that guy on reddit starts his day late then! Hahaha.
@@wherearewe-ytyeah it’s more common as a snack high schoolers get if they’re allowed to step out of campus grounds (sometimes you aren’t allowed to leave school premises during breaks)
@@wherearewe-ytor is a student haha
The best Dutch food/snack test i have seen so far, well done!
Thanks so much! We're glad you enjoyed it.
as a dutchy the classic way to eat stroopwaffels is with a warm beverage (like tea or coffee) and we have those store bought ones. than you take thos and put them ontop of ur cup, to make it a little soft and warm, so the caramel is a but softer and smoother and that how i like em most (also, we have them coverd in white n milk chocolate, and those are BOMB but really sweet)
This is the way we like to do it as well! It still retains its chew this way, but it's still a little warm.
We'd like to try one dipped in chocolate sometime. I'm sure it would be delicious!
I'm allways warm up my stroopwafel, i put it on my cup of coffee or tea, for like a little bit so its get softer.
Thanks for the great video 😀
We love to do that as well! It's always still nice and chewy this way. 😀
Thanks for watching!
A lot of places outside of Amsterdam have ‘patat flip’ which is basically the peanut and mayo without the unions.
I grew up in the Hague. My mother ran a cafeteria (place to get fries and snack). And she refused to sell a ‘dish’ called ‘war’. So it was ‘flip’ (peanut sause and mayo) and flip with unions.
We actually quite like it with the onions, but even without, they would be amazing. Editing that video made us crave them all over again. They're literally perfect. 🥺
The herring you had wasn't raw just as the Matjes from Bremen.
Just because there wasn't any heat involved in the cocking process doesn't mean food is not cooked. It's fermented, a bio chemical cocking process you found in many different foods or beverages. Tea, coffee, chocolate, cheese, dryed (and/or smoked, salted) meat/fish, Sauerkraut , Kimchi....all of them are cooked and not raw.
Thank you guys for sharing your food experience from all around the world. Liebe Grüße from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg.
Gotcha! That makes sense. The flavor was so mild, that it was hard to tell. It tasted very fresh! Especially compared to the store bought version we had in Bremen.
I checked what you wrote here again, because I don't completely agree with it and AI writes the following:
You are right that pickling and fermenting are two different processes. It is a common misconception to think that herring, as traditionally eaten in the Netherlands, is fermented. Here is how it works:
- **Picking** is a preservation method in which fish (such as herring) is preserved in a salt solution. This process draws moisture from the fish and inhibits bacterial growth, but it does not lead to fermentation. The taste of pickled herring is therefore salty rather than sour.
- **Fermenting** is another process in which bacteria, yeasts or fungi are used to convert sugars in food into acids, alcohol or gas. This often gives a sour taste, such as with sauerkraut or kimchi. Herring from the herring cart does not undergo this process.
Dutch herring (Hollandse Nieuwe) is not fermented; it is salted and matured. The maturation breaks down enzymes and gives the fish its characteristic flavor, but this is not fermentation in the classical sense.
So you have a good point: if herring was really fermented, it would indeed have a sour taste, which is not how traditional herring with onions is perceived. 😊
I love your video. I live in Amsterdam, on foot just 10 minutes away from the Albert Cuijp market. I only eat stroopwafels cold, and do not feel tempted to buy a warm stroopwafel. Great you liked the raw herring! The thing you had for breakfast (was it a frikandel broodje?) is not a breakfast thing for the Dutch.
We're happy you enjoyed it! That was a really beautiful area. We enjoyed walking around there. Nice park as well!
It seems we're not the only ones who prefer the cold. Cold, or mildly heated up at the top of a coffee cup, is the best way. 👌
We're big seafood lovers, so I knew we would enjoy..I'm from Nova Scotia, on the East Coast of Canada. So I grew up with a lot of seafood! Any towns or cities located near the sea make me feel at home. 😃
Im so happy you like our food. I wanted to say to Canada: thanks to your country we were liberated thank you. And to the german princess I wanted to say : Vielen Dank, dass Sie Ihr Nachbarland besucht und das Essen genossen haben. und mögest du gemeinsam viele wundervolle Abenteuer erleben.
We really enjoyed ourselves! The food was amazing.
I remember learning all about that in school, during history class. I'm glad we were able to help! 🇨🇦 🇳🇱
23:33 I don't know why they sell the frikandels like that in those Febo like snack-from-the-wall places, it should be sliced lengthwise with diced onions and mayo and curry or ketchup in it. Aka frikandel speciale.
That sounds wayyyy better.
Salted licorice is also fairly popular in the Mönchengladbach area. My mom is from there and grew up eating it
Both of Anja's parents, and my own father, also love licorice! We didn't inherit that gene. I think I'm slowly getting used to is, but I still don't love it.
@@wherearewe-ytI totally agree. I am not a fan, but both my parents love it
Jenever or 'gin' is indeed a Dutch spirit. Actually English Gin got it's name from the original Dutch Jenever. The English liked Jenever so much that they tried to make their own kind. Jenever was pronounced by the English as 'Ginever' and they shortened it to just 'Gin'. Same with pancakes. Pancakes are a Dutch invention and when they sailed to the New World and founded New Amsterdam they brought the recipy with them and made them there just like at home. The Dutch word 'pannekoek' became phonetically translated in America as 'pancake'. Wich in English language actually makes no sense because a pancake is not a cake :)
Very interesting! Thanks for the information. We were told that the Ketel 1 we drank is a "jonge jenever", which is brewed in the new production method. Possibly why it tastes different? We have no basis of comparison, as it's the only Jenever we tried. It tasted much different than any of the British gins we've ever had. Our original plan was to go to a bar called De Drie Fleschjes, where we could try a variety. The rain had other plans, and we ran out of time!
The "pancakes" that I grew up with are certainly a lot more cake like than the original flat, crepe like versions you have in the Netherlands. But that's often the case! The UK takes things, changes them, and by the time they get to North America, they're typically something completely different. Haha.
Hagelslag is for every age. The dark chocolate one on white bread (with butter) can't go wrong. The only danger is that you keep wanting another one and another one and another one... lol. We also have essbare papier (eetpapier) in The Netherlands. Indeed nothing like kokosbrood. My brother was addicted to kokosbrood as a kid.
As we've told a few others, we've actually been traveling with both our hagelslag and kokosbrood (they've come to multiple countries with us). Even though we are both living out of a single suitcase, we always find room for it because we love them both so much. We actually made ourselves some the other day, but it's almost all gone! Sad times.
Nice chewy cold roomboter stoopwafels from the supermarket for me
The best!
Seeing as I’m from the town that invented the chocolate hagelslag I’ll tell you the history 😂
Haa-gul-slag. The a in slag is like “ah😢 you fell?” The g is the same as in hagel. The g/h sound.
1908
A licorice maker invented white sprinkles with anise seed during a cold autumns day. Spices and cold weather you know. It was hailing as well. Hagel means hail so dots got connected.
They continued to produce anise seed sprinkles for years (till the mid 1950’s)
They were white but later came in colours baby blue and light pink. We use primarily during gender reveal parties and baby showers. They get sprinkled on a piece of buttered rusk or toast.
1913
A chocolate factory from my town (we have so many it always smells like wet cocoa here lol) introduced chocolate sprinkles. It got popular QUICK and loads of chocolate factories decide to produce them. One big brand called Venz produced them with the name chocolade hagel. Meaning chocolate hail since another brand called Venco trademarked hagelslag. But we call them all hagelslag now.
Slag means “slash” or “strike”/ “blow” like with a sword. So it’s kind of a cool name that kinda means hail strike instead of struck by lightning. Neerslag for example means precipitation. Cause the guy that invented it got struck with a hailstorm? Get it? Struck with hail with a chocolate flavour 😂
Your town smells like wet cocoa??? We need to visit! Hahaha.
Hail strike. Sounds pretty metal for a food item that's so cute! 😂
We really want to try those Muisjes sprinkles. Someone else mentioned them in the comments as well! Had NO idea that was a thing. We have so many thing to try for next time!
We put the cold ones on our cup of coffee or tea to warm the "stroop"
This is the best way! I like being able to regulate the temperature myself. That way, it gets to be the perfect balance between chewy and gooey.
Herring is excellent medicine against a bad headache. Take 2 ones with not to much onions (it nutralise the effect) and eat them. With second its totally gone here
Years ago in Bruges i had in morning almost a migraine. But it was such a beautiful summer day and didn't want laying on bed. So i went in morning to fish marked and took 2 maatjes - yep the belgium call them maatjes- and i was after eating them healed of it.
Never heard that before. Maybe I will have to try! I am prone to headaches and migraines. 😵💫
@@wherearewe-ytyes it's at least healthier then pills. After the herring i had a fantastic hot day with 27C (it was in July)
If you have tea or coffee ... put the 'stroopwafel' on top of the cup for a couple of minutes ... 😊
That's typically what we do when we buy it from the grocery store. This is the best way!
A kroket has NO potatoes inside. It's a roux (flower and butter and stock) with extra's addes (like veal or pork or peanutsauce or or or ) :)
That makes sense! It was super creamy, so it totally felt like it. We used to live in Spain, and used to eat potato kroket, and also bechamel with jamon, all the time.
I love them. Anja can take them or leave em'. Haha.
When i have stroopwafel from the store i put it on top of my hot coffee(cup), the coffee heats up the stroopwafel, don't do it to long because it then gets soaky.
I've done that before! This is probably my favorite method because it warms up a little, without it getting too soft.
5:58 You just triggered a keyword on me: KAYA. I've been interested to eat Singapore Kaya Toast, but here where I live in the Netherlands I can't get any kaya jam, what a pity! But now that I know that KOKOS BREAD is akin like KAYA, I'm fine with it. I'll just use a piece of kokos 'bread' as a substitute.
We love kaya! Is there not any Indonesian shops that sell it?? There's a website called "Oriental Webshop" from the Netherlands that has it for less than 4 Euro. You should order it and try it! So worth it.
Kroketten do not have mashed potatoes in it (only if you have an aardappel kroket ofcourse). These meat kroketten are filled with beef ragout.
You taste food, yummy yummy
Our favorite thing to do! 😃
Poffertjes look good. But real fluffy American pancakes cannot be beat. They put the "cake" in pancake. You can't always get good ones out, they are too flat and cooked with too much fat in the pan. Those fries look amazing. Good selection of foods to try. Now I have to go look up all the dishes. Hi from a very cold Oregon.
The poffertjes were so good! I'm obsessed with buttermilk pancakes back home. Anja prefers German/ Dutch style, for sure.
The fries were some of the best we've had, easily! Can't beat that sate/ Dutch mayo combo.
Thanks for watching!
We eat sandwiches for breakfast with chocolate sprinkles or marmalade or cheese or whatever. 60-90% cocoa is the best Hagelslag . The extra puur hagelslag is better.
That sausage roll is a snack or for people in a hurry.
Most of us eat full grain or brown breads. White bread isn’t that healthy.
The raw herring you ate isn’t really raw. It’s called maatjesharing and is identical to Matjes from Bremen.
Next time you’re in the Netherlands, try Kapsalon fries.
Indonesian food has to be eaten when it’s hot.
Drop is a daily treat for me but it’s an acquired taste. You eat it when you want to.
The hagelslag we had was so good. We'd love to try other versions. We've been told the brand we tried isn't actually the best! Now we'd like to try some other brands.
The person on reddit mislead me! Someone said that must be a teenager. 😂
That's interesting about the herring! It seems like rather than a proper pickeling, it's like a light brine. It tasted MUCH better than the store bought maatjes we bought.
Kapsalon fries were on our list of foods to try, bought we lost a full day of filming because it wouldn't stop raining. We had to choose between the war fries or the Kapsalon, so we decided on the war fries. We will try it next time we return to a different city in the Netherlands! 😃
The herring you just ate is maatjes haring (so g think the same as you got in bremen, but it's typically Dutch)
Oh, haha, that makes sense then. The Dutch one was definitely better, though, since it tasted so fresh 😊. The one we tried in Bremen was prepacked from the supermarket 😆.
You pronounced it very well, haa kel slag
We honestly weren't sure. Google confused us with the AI pronunciation they gave us! Haha.
Have to say, eating fries from a ‘puntzak’ (paperbag) just makes the experience so much better, eventhough you’ll have issues with equally distributing the sause🤣.
That's true! Is it a thing to ask for your fry cone layered?? Because that would be amazing.
@@wherearewe-yt yes i always ask for some sauce in the middle between the fries and on top
i am dutch i eating my stroopwafels koud. ❤
I'm glad it's not just us! Haha.
In the Netherlands, mayonaise is only be allowed to be called so if it has at least 72% olive oil. Otherwise it is called frietsaus.
Maybe that's why it's tastes so dang good. We love olives and olive oil. 🫒
Team cold, love stroopwafels from the store
Yessss! Glad we're not the only ones. 😂
In the Netherlands they don't fried in beef because it's banned. That's still a pitty. As a Dutchman everytime i visit Belgium i stop for their fries because they are so much better than here. Always fresh and mostly fried in beef oil.
We've had them in Belgium before, but only once! It's kind of hard to remember how they compared. We'll just have to head back there and try them again. 😎
Ps it's Proost in the Netherlands and is Prost is German. And Maatjes (the fish) from Bremerhaven is brought by the Dutch too Bremerhaven.
Do you pronounce Proost different than Prost? That makes sense about Maatjes. The Dutch herring tasted better 😊😆
@@wherearewe-yt In Germany it's Prost and in the Netherlands it's Proost like Proast (boat). The dubble is in English 00 = oa sound
That's interesting. Thanks for explaining. I looked up the pronunciation at the time when we were in Amsterdam, but the voice either said it wrong or I did not pay enough attention to hear the difference.
The Netherlands is bigger than just Amsterdam, better food different regions 😉
We will definitely come back to explore more of the Netherlands in the future. 😃
Oke nice
We really want to come back and explore more more of the country, so it's nice we still have some things to try next time! Pannenkoek, kapsalon, koekkruimels, Hertog Jan beer..plus, we're looking forward to trying some regional specialties!
Poffertjes with Boerenjongens 😊
I didn't even know what that was, but now that I see it, I think that would be a really nice version. 👌
I would say De Ruijter for 'vlokken' (chocolate flakes) and 'muisjes' (little round balls made of aniseed that you put on rusk, we traditionally eat those with the birth of a baby).
However I would go with Venz for 'hagelslag.' De Ruijter's hagelslag specifically isn't as good as Venz's. Venz are known for their hagelslag.
Muisjes sounds interesting. I had a look at a picture online. Do they taste like licorice if they have aniseed?
Poffertjes:
200g wheat flour
100g buckwheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp sugar
½ tsp salt
2 eggs
450ml milk
40g butter, melted
I would love to try to make some myself, but we don't have one of those little poffertjes pans!
Kroketten don't have mashed potato inside! It's a roux. Unless they are called aardappelkroket, then they have only potato inside. Also a bamischijf is not called a kroket.
Yeah, we noticed that after! We used to live in Spain, where there are a variety of kroket as well. Bechamel based, potato based, or with a roux. It's hard to tell sometimes, with such a smooth texture! Haha.
Nice video.
Thanks! We appreciate it. 😀
I am Dutch and also on team cold! Had stroopwafels since I was born some half century ago, and I do like a hot one, but cold just adds anlther dimension with the chewyness in mu opinion. Most people I know here disagree though. I do have to say the quality of the fresh ones is unparalleled and I occasionally huh one at the market and let it cool down before I eat it.
A lot of people in the comments section have actually said they prefer the cold version as well. We're not alone! 😂
Chocolade make children happy, like give woman a box of bonbons and they're happy (of course if they like bonbons)😊
1:08 That would say a kid between 12 and 18 lol, yikes a energie drink in the morning and with a broodje frikandel.
It probably was because not a single person has said they eat a frikandelbroodje for breakfast! 😂
@@wherearewe-yt I think that Dutch adults generally eat brown bread with toppings in the morning, such as cold cuts and of course cheese, and drink coffee, milk or orange juice. But it was a good video, keep it up.
Nice vlog. How did you know that French fries were actually Belgium fries ? The Belgiums are known for inventing fries but their fries are usually thicker than Dutch fries. Oh yeah eating fries out of a paper bag like you did in Amsterdam is not normal in the rest of the country. In other parts of the country you get a plastic horizontal container you put the fries in and have a separated space within that plastic container for the sauces like mayo and sate sauce. Eating fries from a paper bag can be quite messy with the sauces on top. Cant dip the bottom fries in sauce that way. A lot of fries shops removed the word war fries from menus and named it something else like fries flip but fries shop owners all know what is still. We also had something called Jew cookies at Albert Heijn supermarket but that name was banned as well.
I always hear Americans say there are mashed potatoes in our krokets but there is only beef stew, sate or vegetables in them no mashed potatoes. I can predict what you are going to say now, that you are not American. I know eh. Dutch people love Canadians ever since they freed us in the second world war. The Americans always brag about them freeing Europe but they came in after the Canadians and British had been fighting the Germans for years. Canadians played a significant role in the liberation of the Netherlands. There is a video on TH-cam called "Canadian veterans celebrated in the Netherlands". It is a video where you see old Canadian veterans walking in a parade in The Netherlands being thanked by Dutch people, even teens and children shaking their hands. This parade was held until 8 / 9 years ago every year since 1945. Now most Canadian veterans are too old to come here to walk in a parade but I can recommend watching the video it is only 10 minures long. P.s. The Netherlands sent 20.000 flower bulbs to Ottawa every year to remember the Canadians liberating us. 10.000 flower bulbs are from the people of The Netherlands and 10.000 are from our Royal Family who fled to Canada in the war.
Dutch princess Margriet was born in Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa. The maternity ward of the hospital was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government.[This ensured that the newborn would not be born in Canada, and not be a British subject under the rule of jus soli. Instead, the child would only inherit Dutch citizenship from her mother under the principle of jus sanguinis, which is followed in Dutch nationality law. Thus, the child would be eligible to succeed to the throne of the Netherlands. This would have applied if the child had been male, and therefore heir apparent to Queen Juliana, or if her two older sisters died without eligible children. I am telling you this but you probably already know !
We've been to Belgium before! We also watch a lot of TH-cam, so we've heard it been said many times. It's great that the paper cone is more environmentally friendly, but it's certainly not the most convenient if you're looking for proper sauce distribution. Someone else mentioned the war fries name change, but we've never heard of the "Jew cookies". Wish we could have tried them!
I know exactly what you mean. That is always the American perspective, but us Canadians know better. Especially since we actually learn world history, and not just Canadian history, skewed in our favor. Haha. I will check out that video!
That's super interesting about Dutch princess Margiret. I've been to Ottawa before, but I've never heard this fact. Very cool!
@wherearewe-yt Jew cookies are still being sold in supermarkets but I dont know under which name. Next time you come to the Netherlands you can also try Tompouce and Bossche Bollen. Just look 'm up on TH-cam or Google. By the way snacks normal kroket and frikandel are the most sold snacks in fries shops in The Netherlands. You know the snack you guys tought looked like a wrinkley willy. Lol
Oh it's so hard. That's what she said😂 9 out of 10 pastries you need to warm up. Frikandel broodje cold is not the way how to eat is. Same as stroopwafels, Saucijzenbroodje etc.
She said, "Oh, it's so hard.. I don't know if you're supposed to suck them", which makes it even worse. 😂
The Frikandelbroodje would have definitely been a lot better if it were heated up. It wasn't actually too bad cold, though! We'd like to try one again, though.
@@wherearewe-yt I always heat it up in a oven but also 30 second in the microwave because the pastry will dry out and burn to fast. Hmm I think I missed that last part btw🤣👊
20:35 While not most people but the Portuguese, Germans and British also colonized Indonesia for a long time.
True! We're actually currently in Sri Lanka, and it's been pretty interesting to see the Dutch colonial buildings and architecture here as well.
Also adults eat bread with hagelslag in the Netherlands. 😊
Agree!
And also when I buy 'Vlokfeest' for my kids, I take some slices of bread with them, and real butter ofc.
We actually still have both our hagelslag and our kokosbrood. We've been traveling with it, and had it for breakfast two days ago! 😋
hahaha, the frikandelbroodje must be eaten warm (oven). Brrrr. i don't wanna think about it to eat it cold.
We figured! Hahaha. It was actually not bad cold, but it would be amazing if it were fresh.
I would NEVER eat sugar free, mild zoute (hard) muntdrop. I would eat the ones with sugar and preferably soft sweet variety. Those hard coins really stick to you pallet and can take 10 minutes to get rid of.
Did we eat sugar free ones? If we did, that wasn't our intention 😂. I guess that's what happens when you don't understand the packaging.
🙂
Frikandelbroodje eat you hot not cold and its not curryketchup but only curry
Really? Because it looks and tastes almost the same as the curry ketchup in Germany. Whatever it is, it's delicious!
Frikandel without sause🤷♂️ mayo or special is common
We're lucky Anja had the random purse mustard. 😂
Buy them only cold
For the stroopwafel?
you forgot to eat "kapsalon"
Yeah, it was on the list! We lost a whole day due to rain, so we didn't manage to fit everything in. We decided that we had to choose between kapsalon and the war fries, so we ended up going with the latter. Next time!
"I don't know, I mean most people didn't colonize Indonesia." xD xD
I'm a terrible person. 😂
Are you suggesting The Netherlands isn't in Europe?
No, why would you think that? Do you mean, because I said that you cannot get Indonesian food pretty much any where in Europe? 😆 I meant anywhere ELSE. 😇😊 To be honest, I'm not great at stringing a logical sentence together. Not sure why I do TH-cam. Ask Brandon, he is the editor and has to deal with it and fix my gibberish every day 🤣.
de haring is niet rauw hij is gepekeld
From what I've read, it's "soaked in a mild preserving liquid" rather than straight up pickled, which is which it tastes so different from other pickled herring.
@wherearewe-yt eerst gekaakt en dan gepekeld .voor de houdbaarheid.
No no, don't use unions and pickels with the haring, in the old days when they had no cooling they used unions on haring when the fish wasn't so fresh enymore so you woulden't taste it.
Oh, really? Don't most places still serve it with both onion and pickle? We quite liked it like that! The fish was super fresh, though. It didn't really need either.
there is nothing french about french fries the are just fries 😡😡😡
also ketel 1 jenever is frome schiedam
Well, we certainly didn't invent the name. 🤷
We also said this in the video, that they aren't French. 😄
Americans have to stop calling it " french fries".. 😂 they're just Fries
Neither of us are American. 😃
Bamihap was niet zo goed niet echt bami hap meer geprakte sh8t
Where would you recommend we try one? We thought it was pretty decent!