Belgium has 3 languages: French, Dutch and German, depending on the region you live in. Most of them speak English as well, like they do in Germany. Belgium is famous for their chocolate Pralinen and their fries, which the Americans falsely call 'french' fries since frying potatoes like that were defenitely founded in Belgium (probably because those who did spoke french).
Belgium also got parts of French-speaking Luxembourg. In addition, two small areas that speak German. But today the open borders in the EU are no longer so important. Changing that would be fatal.
@@midgard0 i always saw the be-ne-lux states as an experiment that, once it succeeded, was implemented Europe wide as the EU. closing the obrders would be a crime.
What a wonderful experience for 3 generations of your family traveling together. I want to be your lovely daughter. She is so good and she will cherish this great experience forever.
11:15 As a Belgian, all I can say is "WTF is that?" :) I know that in the touristic cities you can get all kinds of things on your waffle, but personally, I almost never eat any of that. The "Luikse Wafel" (or sugar waffle), is best eaten warm and plain without extra toppings. The "Brusselse Wafel" (the one they fill with toppings), only needs some extra powdered sugar or perhaps some whipped cream to fully enjoy the taste of the waffle. :)
yeah and also tourists come to belgium like wow waffles and chocolate and then ask for nutella on their waffle ... , i don't even see nutella as chocolate
😂😂😂 Nobody says Luikse wafel except a few Dutch-speaking people. Its popular name is Gaufre de Liège. Same for Brusselse wafel. Its popular name is Gaufre de Bruxelles.
You have to fried the potato stripes two times. First fry is to cook them with a lower temperatur, and the second time is to finish them and make them crispy. And they are the best when between the two cooks, let cool them down. Grüße aus Düsseldorf
Great video of you exploring Belgium with Tanner's parents. Have to say I never heard of double fried French Fries so that was interesting. That Waffle with cream and chocolate looked absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing your experiences together as a family and explaining about all the different food choices.
Everyone calls them "French Fries", when they actually originate in Belgium... And yes, there's thousands of these so called "Frituren" here in Belgium where you can get Fries and snacks. And in every single one of them, they will double fry them. We even do this at home. We often cut our own potatoes into fries, bake them a little bit, and then later, we finish them by baking them a second time. :)
You need to come to Liège (east) and get your fries with "sauce lapin" (litterally "rabbit sauce", but there's no rabbit in it). It's a sweet and sour sauce we use on meatballs, but it's also great on fries!
The best from Belgium are the fries with the different sauces. I like the fries special , they are fries with curry sauce , mayo and diced raw onions , yummi ......yummi ..........
@@Andreas_Cologne isn't that patatje oorlog? with peanut sauce instead of ketchup? I haven't seen that in Belgium, but I sure have seen alot of fries or curryworst/frikandel speciaal
Love the food videos! It looks so delicious! Willa has become a wonderful food sampler ❤️. So great Tanner's folks going along with all the food sampling. I think Tanner's dad really enjoyed reliving some of his favorite foods 😀
I buy frozen Belgian frites from a local supermarket in England and they taste just like in Belgium. Pan-fried in sunflower oil for about 5 minutes, perfect! Sure, you do need to be generous with the amount of oil needed, but as a special treat with a fried egg and mushrooms these frites are delicious.
You have to put the mayonaise on top of the stoofvlees and the frieten 😀, Dumont is very good chocolate but a bit sophisticated… start with Leonidas, that’s beginners chocolate but very good also.
Brussels is always worth a visit, no doubt! The perfect city if you wanna hop between old and new, if you know what I mean. But I hope you haven't left the city and the country without trying THE Belgian food at all: Moules-frites - mussels and French fries. That's a Must! anyways, enjoy your stay and have a good time. Regards from Germany :-)
Tanner, when you visited your friend in Bochum and he took you to the Bratwursthaus to have a Currywurst, Belgian fries have been just a minute walk away. ;)
Good morning ☀️ what a nice delicious video. Official languages in Belgium are Dutch, French and in a few smaller part's close to the border German. Your sweet tooth has definitely had a trip from a culinary point of view and since the way to the heart is known to be through the stomach, Belgium has become even more beautiful. Your faces spoke volumes. The different European countries have a lot to offer and I don't have to drive that far for it, which is a very pleasant thing.
SDoCF, hi guys, nice to see your fathers exciting face that after 40 years he can dive again into his favourite food, belgium fries. Yes, those get fried twice and get the crunchy texture. I stil remember the times when we bought french fries from the so called Imbiss stations and we got the fries always in the similar buckets. That was 100 % fingerfood. Risa, the waffle you have choosen, wasnt it a bit overloded or your eyes were to much widley open ? Do you finished it by your own ? Anyway guys, wish you a nice time together, enjoy it. (SDoCF, sunday dose of Christensen family) Hey, since the early beginning I am following. Great videos and with lots of effort I am sure. THANKS. Hmmh, did I missed the big pic with flowers ?
Good to know you are in Belgium , I hope you have a great time here in Belgium . I saw your video where you helped the Ukrainians, you are real heroes .
I want to go to belgium just for the waffles is good enough reason lol I am a belgian waffle fan but those pomme frites with the beef gravy sounds very yummy
Omg Your making us all very very hungry eating all those yummy fries,Waffels 😋😋😋 But yes if your visiting Brussels ,Brugge of course you must go fully out with trying everything . Yes the Belguim chocolate s are very nice , the Fillings some are a acquired taste But for the most. A Lovley treat 😀 Was that an Airb&b you were staying in. Looked Beautiful 😍. Have A Good week 🥰🥰
Belgium has 3 official languages = French + Flemish + German because there are 3 ethnic groups = Walloons (french speakers) and Flemish people (speaking the dutch dialect "Flemish") and a German minority...the North of Belgium is Flemish (= former "Flanders"/Austrian Netherlands" respectively) and the south is Walloon and in the very east lives a German minority..the Kingdom of Belgium was established after the Napoleon wars, the time before the region was part of Burgundy mainly under Habsburg rule and always an "apple of discord" between the Holy Roman Empire and France (Spain was also involved as long the spanish line of Habsburg existed)
The Walloons tend to be Catholic and the Dutch mostly Protestant. But the earlier princes often divided up territory in this way. William 1st of Nassau Orange (NL) and Prince of Luxemburg Nassau. This princely house comes from Dillenburg / Hessen / Germany.
Oooo no, You called Belgium Fries three times French in this video and in the previous one once. Belgians are very proud and famous for their Belgium Fries 😄. Belgium Fries are some of the Belgium food icons, like beer, waffles and chocolate are too.
Reminds me of when Craig Ferguson had Belgian guests on his Late Late Show on CBS and they mentioned Stoofvlees while he was repeatedly and tearfully cracking up about it: "Stoofvlees, what is it?" -- "It's a stew." 🤣
Around three quarters of the population of Brussels speaks French at home (though about half of them speak another language, whether Dutch or a third language, in addition to French). Only about one quarter of the population speaks Dutch/Flemish at home, and most of them speak French at home in addition to Dutch. So it's really no surprise to hear people speaking French on the street in Brussels. Bruges, on the other hand, is firmly Dutch/Flemish-speaking.
Belgium is the country that created the Pommes Frites aka French Fries. I believe it was during or after the first WW, where American soldiers experienced street vendors Pommes Frites and brought it back to America but falsely labeled it French Fries, perhaps because most Belgians speak French.
That doesn't mean french fries. It was the Belgians who invented it. They usually threw small sprats into hot fat twice. But when those little fish weren't available, they made it with potato strips. Belgian fries.
1st It's a shame that you didn't try one of the sauces for the fries. You can get mayonnaise all over the world, but not those sauces (f.e. andalouse, american, samourai,...). The fries are not only special, because they are double-fried, but they are usually made out of fresh potatoes (not frozen) and are fried in (sorry vegeteriarns) beef tallow. Sucre (sugar) was very wrong pronounced. Just forget about it. Officially Brussels is bilingual (french, dutch), but since it's full of foreigners the most spoken languages are: 1. French 2. English 3. Dutch
"You can get mayonnaise all over the world"- You can also get fries all over the world but that doesn't mean it's going to taste as good. Having tried mayonnaise all over the world I'd say the Belgians do it the best(bit biased) and the Dutch come close with their sweet mayo. The butter-like mayo in the US is probably the worst I've ever tasted.
A great video. Overall, one can say that Germany, Austria and Italy still have the best food. Fresh and healthy. The Netherlands can do breakfast, Belgium stands more for sweets and fried foods. The English have almost no food culture. France is right in the middle and Portugal and Spain have good southern cuisine. Unfortunately no breakfast. Bon appetite 🙂
Belgium here. Tip : the real belgian waffles ( there is 2 kind) have nothing else than sugar on top ( like the kid one). Waffles full of cream and other things is a tourist trap that we see now since a decade in touristic places. You can't taste the real quality of the waffle if it's full of other staff. Waffles are a very simple thing and the important is the fresh batter, so avoid nutella and those addons.
Brussels has in fact become an entirely French-speaking city. It is historically a Flemish (so Dutch-speaking) city but basically, the French-speaking Belgians took over the city and they didn't (still don't) care about the Dutch language or Flemish heritage of the city. It's kind of sad.
Many shops including supermarkets and ATMs will accept credit cards, usually Visa and Master Card though the common way to pay is with debit cards, which is referred to as Bancontact. You may need cash for smaller shops, street vendors, etc ...
würdet ihr mal mir zu Liebe den Test machen was die Schwarzwaldfamilie gemacht hat (th-cam.com/video/5AHnF8NGCIQ/w-d-xo.html), ich denke ihr geht da mit weniger Vorurteilen ran und lasst den Geschmack sprechen...😉
I don’t like those sweet waffles. Or you should take a Brussels waffle with sweet toppings or a Liege waffle without toppings. Liege + toppings is way too sweet.
It's your problem if you prefer Milka chocolate than Neuhaus chocolate. I really prefer high quality Belgian chocolate made with better ingredients than Toblerone style chocolates.
@@Thefutureis96 Where is the issue ? We already have good quality chocolates in Belgium : start by replacing the low quality Côte d'Or chocolates made abroad by Galler chocolates for instance.
What a great family.
Welcome in Belgium, hope you enjoy the atmosphere and the food.
Thank you! 💛
Belgium has 3 languages: French, Dutch and German, depending on the region you live in. Most of them speak English as well, like they do in Germany. Belgium is famous for their chocolate Pralinen and their fries, which the Americans falsely call 'french' fries since frying potatoes like that were defenitely founded in Belgium (probably because those who did spoke french).
Belgium also got parts of French-speaking Luxembourg.
In addition, two small areas that speak German.
But today the open borders in the EU are no longer so important. Changing that would be fatal.
@@midgard0 i always saw the be-ne-lux states as an experiment that, once it succeeded, was implemented Europe wide as the EU. closing the obrders would be a crime.
dude you forget the beer ;)
@@jensschroder8214 Actually Belgium lost a part of Luxemburg, that is now the Grand-Duché.
Fries were discovered by US soldiers in Belgium during WW1 The people there spoke french, so french fries...Even they are from Belgium....
What a wonderful experience for 3 generations of your family traveling together. I want to be your lovely daughter. She is so good and she will cherish this great experience forever.
11:15 As a Belgian, all I can say is "WTF is that?" :)
I know that in the touristic cities you can get all kinds of things on your waffle, but personally, I almost never eat any of that.
The "Luikse Wafel" (or sugar waffle), is best eaten warm and plain without extra toppings.
The "Brusselse Wafel" (the one they fill with toppings), only needs some extra powdered sugar or perhaps some whipped cream to fully enjoy the taste of the waffle. :)
Haha totally get that!! The plain ones are incredible 😋
yeah and also tourists come to belgium like wow waffles and chocolate and then ask for nutella on their waffle ... , i don't even see nutella as chocolate
@@MrLedeberg That´s quite personal actually. 🙂
As a Belgian myself, I really like nutella as well. Pancakes with nutella are really good. 😉
@@o0L4nc3r0o can i excommunicate you ? :p
😂😂😂 Nobody says Luikse wafel except a few Dutch-speaking people. Its popular name is Gaufre de Liège. Same for Brusselse wafel. Its popular name is Gaufre de Bruxelles.
You have to fried the potato stripes two times. First fry is to cook them with a lower temperatur, and the second time is to finish them and make them crispy. And they are the best when between the two cooks, let cool them down. Grüße aus Düsseldorf
Mmmm thanks for giving us the tips! Happy new year Marcus!
Great. Correct. But please keep the secret for the 2 cooking temperatures and the product used to fry. 😂
Great Video. Great music especially at the beginning of the Brugge part.
So Amazing to see you guys giving Food tour of every place you guys visit. Lovely cool videos.Thank you guys Sweetest family and cute daughter 😘
Thanks so much for the kind comment! 😊
Great video of you exploring Belgium with Tanner's parents. Have to say I never heard of double fried French Fries so that was interesting. That Waffle with cream and chocolate looked absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing your experiences together as a family and explaining about all the different food choices.
Everyone calls them "French Fries", when they actually originate in Belgium...
And yes, there's thousands of these so called "Frituren" here in Belgium where you can get Fries and snacks. And in every single one of them, they will double fry them.
We even do this at home. We often cut our own potatoes into fries, bake them a little bit, and then later, we finish them by baking them a second time. :)
You need to come to Liège (east) and get your fries with "sauce lapin" (litterally "rabbit sauce", but there's no rabbit in it). It's a sweet and sour sauce we use on meatballs, but it's also great on fries!
The best from Belgium are the fries with the different sauces. I like the fries special , they are fries with curry sauce , mayo and diced raw onions , yummi ......yummi ..........
I'm quite sure that this sauce is a dutch "invention".
@@Andreas_Cologne isn't that patatje oorlog? with peanut sauce instead of ketchup? I haven't seen that in Belgium, but I sure have seen alot of fries or curryworst/frikandel speciaal
Lovely video and family, glad you had a good time here
Hey thank you! It means a lot you watched!
Another great video! Thanks for sharing
Love the food videos! It looks so delicious! Willa has become a wonderful food sampler ❤️. So great Tanner's folks going along with all the food sampling. I think Tanner's dad really enjoyed reliving some of his favorite foods 😀
I buy frozen Belgian frites from a local supermarket in England and they taste just like in Belgium. Pan-fried in sunflower oil for about 5 minutes, perfect! Sure, you do need to be generous with the amount of oil needed, but as a special treat with a fried egg and mushrooms these frites are delicious.
You guys should get some Titanium Sporks. They don't break and are easy to carry.
You have to put the mayonaise on top of the stoofvlees and the frieten 😀, Dumont is very good chocolate but a bit sophisticated… start with Leonidas, that’s beginners chocolate but very good also.
Brussels is always worth a visit, no doubt! The perfect city if you wanna hop between old and new, if you know what I mean. But I hope you haven't left the city and the country without trying THE Belgian food at all: Moules-frites - mussels and French fries. That's a Must! anyways, enjoy your stay and have a good time. Regards from Germany :-)
So cool you guys are in Belgium !
Tanner, when you visited your friend in Bochum and he took you to the Bratwursthaus to have a Currywurst, Belgian fries have been just a minute walk away. ;)
Good morning ☀️
what a nice delicious video.
Official languages in Belgium are Dutch, French and in a few smaller part's close to the border German.
Your sweet tooth has definitely had a trip from a culinary point of view and since the way to the heart is known to be through the stomach, Belgium has become even more beautiful. Your faces spoke volumes.
The different European countries have a lot to offer and I don't have to drive that far for it, which is a very pleasant thing.
SDoCF, hi guys, nice to see your fathers exciting face that after 40 years he can dive again into his favourite food, belgium fries. Yes, those get fried twice and get the crunchy texture. I stil remember the times when we bought french fries from the so called Imbiss stations and we got the fries always in the similar buckets. That was 100 % fingerfood. Risa, the waffle you have choosen, wasnt it a bit overloded or your eyes were to much widley open ? Do you finished it by your own ? Anyway guys, wish you a nice time together, enjoy it. (SDoCF, sunday dose of Christensen family) Hey, since the early beginning I am following. Great videos and with lots of effort I am sure. THANKS. Hmmh, did I missed the big pic with flowers ?
Good to know you are in Belgium , I hope you have a great time here in Belgium .
I saw your video where you helped the Ukrainians, you are real heroes .
Next time you must try the variety of belgian beer
One major thing that's missing.... BEER! Seriously.. we have like 1400 different types of beer!
I love your videos … Soooo much Love from Munich ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lovely video 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I want to go to belgium just for the waffles is good enough reason lol I am a belgian waffle fan but those pomme frites with the beef gravy sounds very yummy
Waffles and savory is something I will never understand. Great to have so many options though, y´all.
Omg Your making us all very very hungry eating all those yummy fries,Waffels 😋😋😋
But yes if your visiting Brussels ,Brugge of course you must go fully out with trying everything .
Yes the Belguim chocolate s are very nice , the Fillings some are a acquired taste But for the most. A Lovley treat 😀
Was that an Airb&b you were staying in. Looked Beautiful 😍.
Have A Good week 🥰🥰
Belgium has 3 official languages = French + Flemish + German
because there are 3 ethnic groups = Walloons (french speakers) and Flemish people (speaking the dutch dialect "Flemish") and a German minority...the North of Belgium is Flemish (= former "Flanders"/Austrian Netherlands" respectively) and the south is Walloon and in the very east lives a German minority..the Kingdom of Belgium was established after the Napoleon wars, the time before the region was part of Burgundy mainly under Habsburg rule and always an "apple of discord" between the Holy Roman Empire and France (Spain was also involved as long the spanish line of Habsburg existed)
The Walloons tend to be Catholic and the Dutch mostly Protestant.
But the earlier princes often divided up territory in this way.
William 1st of Nassau Orange (NL) and Prince of Luxemburg Nassau.
This princely house comes from Dillenburg / Hessen / Germany.
You forget the capital Brussels where most people (90 percent) speak French.
@@jensschroder8214 les flamands protestant ??? Y a pas plus catho qu'eux en Belgique .
Belgium Fries Arena the best!!! And best combination is with sate sauce, Mayonnaise and raw onions!!!
Oooo no, You called Belgium Fries three times French in this video and in the previous one once. Belgians are very proud and famous for their Belgium Fries 😄. Belgium Fries are some of the Belgium food icons, like beer, waffles and chocolate are too.
Reminds me of when Craig Ferguson had Belgian guests on his Late Late Show on CBS and they mentioned Stoofvlees while he was repeatedly and tearfully cracking up about it: "Stoofvlees, what is it?" -- "It's a stew." 🤣
Yummy 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋
Belgians have quite a reputation. Read the Asterix comic book “Asterix in Belgium”...
Around three quarters of the population of Brussels speaks French at home (though about half of them speak another language, whether Dutch or a third language, in addition to French). Only about one quarter of the population speaks Dutch/Flemish at home, and most of them speak French at home in addition to Dutch. So it's really no surprise to hear people speaking French on the street in Brussels. Bruges, on the other hand, is firmly Dutch/Flemish-speaking.
Thank you guys, now I am hungry 😂 I need to go to a
waffle house.now 🥰 Have a great week☀️
Belgium is the country that created the Pommes Frites aka French Fries. I believe it was during or after the first WW, where American soldiers experienced street vendors Pommes Frites and brought it back to America but falsely labeled it French Fries, perhaps because most Belgians speak French.
Oh wowwww guys. The food looked so delicious.
👍👍👍😘
Bienvenue on Belgique ou on dit nanonte pas quatrevinghdix
J'ai des doutes sur ta nationalité car on dit " nonante "
That doesn't mean french fries. It was the Belgians who invented it. They usually threw small sprats into hot fat twice. But when those little fish weren't available, they made it with potato strips.
Belgian fries.
Oh french, what a surprise…..
1:17 You know what you did!
1st
It's a shame that you didn't try one of the sauces for the fries. You can get mayonnaise all over the world, but not those sauces (f.e. andalouse, american, samourai,...).
The fries are not only special, because they are double-fried, but they are usually made out of fresh potatoes (not frozen) and are fried in (sorry vegeteriarns) beef tallow.
Sucre (sugar) was very wrong pronounced. Just forget about it.
Officially Brussels is bilingual (french, dutch), but since it's full of foreigners the most spoken languages are:
1. French
2. English
3. Dutch
"You can get mayonnaise all over the world"- You can also get fries all over the world but that doesn't mean it's going to taste as good. Having tried mayonnaise all over the world I'd say the Belgians do it the best(bit biased) and the Dutch come close with their sweet mayo. The butter-like mayo in the US is probably the worst I've ever tasted.
She was trying to pronounce it in flemish(dutch) suiker which is even more difficult than he french sucre...
A great video. Overall, one can say that Germany, Austria and Italy still have the best food. Fresh and healthy. The Netherlands can do breakfast, Belgium stands more for sweets and fried foods. The English have almost no food culture. France is right in the middle and Portugal and Spain have good southern cuisine. Unfortunately no breakfast. Bon appetite 🙂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Germany and. Austria still have the best food😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they are no food Italy well
Belgium here. Tip : the real belgian waffles ( there is 2 kind) have nothing else than sugar on top ( like the kid one). Waffles full of cream and other things is a tourist trap that we see now since a decade in touristic places. You can't taste the real quality of the waffle if it's full of other staff. Waffles are a very simple thing and the important is the fresh batter, so avoid nutella and those addons.
Brussels has in fact become an entirely French-speaking city. It is historically a Flemish (so Dutch-speaking) city but basically, the French-speaking Belgians took over the city and they didn't (still don't) care about the Dutch language or Flemish heritage of the city. It's kind of sad.
waffles just need powdered sugar and whipped cream, the other stuff is a tourist trap
We agree they are mighty tasty that way too! :)
Do they accept credit cards 🤔
Many shops including supermarkets and ATMs will accept credit cards, usually Visa and Master Card though the common way to pay is with debit cards, which is referred to as Bancontact. You may need cash for smaller shops, street vendors, etc ...
würdet ihr mal mir zu Liebe den Test machen was die Schwarzwaldfamilie gemacht hat (th-cam.com/video/5AHnF8NGCIQ/w-d-xo.html), ich denke ihr geht da mit weniger Vorurteilen ran und lasst den Geschmack sprechen...😉
Belgian Fries! Not french ... we hate them 😁 But thank you for this amazing video.
We loved them too!
Belgian fries for God's sake !!!
I don’t like those sweet waffles. Or you should take a Brussels waffle with sweet toppings or a Liege waffle without toppings. Liege + toppings is way too sweet.
Fries arent french they are belgian.
There are so much better things than waffles and fries really. Also more than Bruges. Too much of typical tourist things. That's too bad.
they shouldn't be feeding the kids all this junk!
The girl on this video looks and sounds very depressed within the face have you spent too much money overall to try Belgian street foods
I live i Belgium and i can tell u Belgian Chocolate is nothing, NOTHING compared to the Swiss! I wanna go to Switzerland just to eat chocolate!
Switzerlands chocolate is 🤤🤤
It's your problem if you prefer Milka chocolate than Neuhaus chocolate. I really prefer high quality Belgian chocolate made with better ingredients than Toblerone style chocolates.
@@christophehiguet7838 Well, it is also ur problem if u prefer "high quality" Belgisch chocolate.
@@Thefutureis96 Where is the issue ? We already have good quality chocolates in Belgium : start by replacing the low quality Côte d'Or chocolates made abroad by Galler chocolates for instance.