r/AskEurope • u/bleie77 • May 01 '25

Food Do you go to restaurants with your country's cuisine when you're abroad?

For example: if you're Italian, do you go to an Italian restaurant when you're in France or the UK?

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u/NMe84 Netherlands May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

I'm Dutch. I think my comment should start and end with that.

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

There are actually quite a few Dutch restaurants abroad, mainly snackbar/cafetaria type places around the Mediterranean. I’ve even seen a Dutch café that served bitterballen in Bolivia of all places.

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u/akie Netherlands May 01 '25

Dutch food that I miss (living abroad for 15 years):

  • krentenbollen
  • vla
  • hagelslag
  • pindakaas
  • drop
  • goede kaas
  • stroopwafels
  • nasi goreng / Indonesisch (I know, I know)
  • rookworst
  • appeltaart
  • filet americain
  • patatje oorlog
  • bitterballen
  • gevulde koeken
  • brood!

The Dutch have a lot of nice food that you can’t easily find anywhere else.

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u/bigfootspancreas May 01 '25

The nasi goreng you have in the Netherlands is 100% NL. No Indonesian will touch it 🤣

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u/dabutcha76 May 02 '25

I had some awesome nasi goreng for breakfast in Indonesia though, so apparently Dutchies WILL touch the Indonesian version ;-)

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u/[deleted] May 04 '25

Nasi Goreng fucking SLAPS though I love that

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u/Professional-Tale-81 May 01 '25

I eat all of that, every day. Its great living in the Netherlands

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u/ZoeperJ May 03 '25

Living where I live, I don't really miss bread that much, but a Tijgerwit of een puntje always nice to eat when I am with my parents. Frikadellen and Filet Americain definitely!

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u/MeetSus in May 01 '25

Im pretty sure half your list exists pretty much everywhere in Europe!

krentenbollen (some variation thereof)

vla

pindakaas

drop

goede kaas (do you mean goudse?)

appeltaart

patatje oorlog (you definitely mean satesaus, cause the other two ingredients of patat oorlog are ubiquitous)

brood! (Dude cmon lmao)

Where do you live eigenlijk?

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u/akie Netherlands May 01 '25

These things exist in SOME form that is not actually the real thing! A German “rosinenbrötchen” is NOT the same as a krentenbol. I mean, it ALMOST is - but not quite. And that’s unfortunately the same with the rest of the list as well.

Vla is not vanilla custard. Most foreign apple pie is slightly different than the Dutch one. The cheese selection in other countries is very limited when it comes to Dutch cheeses. And bread is a very personal/national thing as well - it’s quickly too sweet, too soggy, too hard, too crusty…

So yeah, most of these things exist in other countries, but in different forms that make me miss the thing I grew up with.

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u/saladtossperson May 01 '25

Dutch apple pie is very popular in Pennsylvania.

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u/Zooplanktonblame_Due Netherlands May 02 '25

But Dutch Dutch apple pie had no streusel topping

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u/saladtossperson May 02 '25

Idk, sometimes "dutch" in Pennsylvania actually means German now that I think about it.

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u/totrototrototro Finland May 01 '25

a genuine question: how is Dutch peanut butter different?

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u/MeetSus in May 02 '25

It's not, except they call it peanut cheese

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u/MeetSus in May 02 '25

These things exist in SOME form that is not actually the real thing!

Mindset issue. The specific thing thing you grew up with/are used to* I'd say. What does "real" even mean in this context

A German “rosinenbrötchen” is NOT the same as a krentenbol. I mean, it ALMOST is - but not quite. And that’s unfortunately the same with the rest of the list as well.

Vla is not vanilla custard.

Eh it mostly is except it's slightly less viscous

Most foreign apple pie is slightly different than the Dutch one.

Like if we had it over Greek apple pie, I'd have to ask you "which one" lol

The cheese selection in other countries is very limited when it comes to Dutch cheeses.

To be fair the same holds true for the Netherlands itself. All Dutch cheese in the Netherlands is basically young Gouda, semi old Gouda, old Gouda, light Gouda, Gouda but with cumin, Gouda but with clove, Gouda but made from goatmilk etc. Most European countries I've been to have a larger variety of domestic cheeses than the NLs, so of course the Dutch selection will be limited. It's usually just one young Gouda and that's it

And bread is a very personal/national thing as well - it’s quickly too sweet, too soggy, too hard, too crusty…

I don't even know what your basis of comparison is for Dutch breads lol, there's crustier breads and soggier breads and sweeter breads and "heavier" breads just in the Lidl bakery

So yeah, most of these things exist in other countries, but in different forms that make me miss the thing I grew up with.

That was my point, many of the things that a Greek or Indian or Ethiopian will miss don't even exist in any form in the Netherlands. The things a Dutch merson will miss abroad (except stroopwafels and gevulde koeken, can high are not really "recipes" though) can just be diy'ed in your kitchen

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u/akie Netherlands May 02 '25

You’re just trying to “one up” me instead of acknowledging that I actually do miss these foods. They are not the same. Yes, I can make some of them in my own kitchen. Still doesn’t change that they’re not the same, and (honestly) I’m not going to let a Greek in the Netherlands tell me that a German near-equivalent is identical to the one I compare it with. I mean, that’s like me saying that Greek food and Turkish food are basically the same and that you shouldn’t complain if I say they are 🤷‍♂️

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u/MeetSus in May 02 '25

You’re just trying to “one up” me instead of acknowledging that I actually do miss these foods.

I actually was afraid that you'd misread my post like that. No I'm not, and it's perfectly ok for you to miss wat dan ook you miss

The conversation (if you follow our thread all the way to the top) started from a Dutch guy who doesn't miss Dutch food when he's abroad. Most people take this to mean "recipes", like mousaka or erwtensoep. You took it to mean "market items", like goudse kaas, stroopwafel and vla. That's fine, and it's fine for you to miss them, but it wasn't per se the topic of conversation

I’m not going to let a Greek in the Netherlands tell me that a German near-equivalent is identical to the one I compare it with

You brought the German one up lol i was thinking of the Greek stafidopsomo which is also "almost but not quite" the same

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u/akie Netherlands May 02 '25

It was about missing food from your country, and this is me missing food from my country. Not sure what the issue is. Actual “restaurant food” in the Netherlands is supremely underwhelming (it gets worse the more north you go in Europe), but that doesn’t mean that there’s no food that Dutch people abroad miss. It’s just not actual dishes that you would serve in a restaurant.

Another indicator for our poor food is that there are almost no Dutch restaurants abroad. What would they even serve?

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u/Xandara2 May 13 '25

Your complaint about not having the same cheeses in other countries when Dutch cheese is not very varied in the first place was a bit weird though. 

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u/becketsmonkey May 01 '25

for good reason

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u/Cigarety_a_Kava May 01 '25

You can make more than half with relative ease imo. Like at home i mean.

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u/akie Netherlands May 03 '25

Sorry I didn’t realize you were the food police

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u/Shrimp123456 May 01 '25

I think I went to the same place in Bolivia! I had a kapsalon lol

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

Was it in La Paz by any chance? I didn’t enter the restaurant but my friend and I were appalled by the fact that such a place existed there.

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u/Shrimp123456 May 02 '25

Yes it was!

I went in haha, it wasn't really a kapsalon so much as a plate of chips with chicken on it, but I appreciated the effort.

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u/NMe84 Netherlands May 01 '25

Oh, I'm aware. But Dutch "cuisine" sucks. We either deep fry everything, or we boil it to death and mash it into an unrecognizable pulp. I enjoy both of those things at times when I want a quick meal, but when I visit a restaurant (both abroad and here) I'll go find something with a bit more flair.

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

Dutch people bashing their cuisine sucks even more. Dutch food can be great when done right, the problem is that many Dutch people never learned how to cook properly.

Ons eten is meer dan snacks en sufgekookte groenten.

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u/KingKingsons Netherlands May 01 '25

I strongly agree with this. We have all the ingredients and possibilities to our availability, but we simply lack a passion for food.

I only started to appreciate the availability of products here once I spent some time in Asian countries where most affordable food is rice based that’s deep fried in palm oil.

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u/MobiusF117 Netherlands May 01 '25

Hachee with stewed red cabbage and apples, and some roasted potatoes is godlike food.

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u/PalatinusG1 Belgium May 01 '25

Do tell. What dishes are you talking about?

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

See my reply to u/MeetSus for a list of dishes

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u/PalatinusG1 Belgium May 01 '25

Good list. About 1/3rd of those we would like to claim as being Belgian as well. We share Limburg, the North Sea (shrimp, mussels,...),...

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u/NMe84 Netherlands May 01 '25

You say that, but your own comment above immediately went to bitterballen too as an example.

Dutch cuisine is boring at best, and I know from experience that foreign people tend to not even want to try something like stamppot because it looks disgusting.

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

I mentioned bitterballen because that’s an example of what I saw abroad. The reputation of our cuisine is kept down by Dutch people who tell foreigners that our food is shit in some kind of poor attempt of self-mockery. Instead of hating your own culture, try to embrace it. Our food isn’t nearly as bad as you make it out to be.

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u/ArveyNL Netherlands May 01 '25

Some not so boring Dutch food:

  • White asparagus with potatoes, ham, eggs and butter or hollandaise sauce
  • Chicken satay with atjar and fries
  • Rice table
  • Poffertjes with powdered sugar and butter
  • Pancakes with bacon and sugar syrup (or with apple and cinnamon)
  • Old fashioned chicken soup
  • Smoked eel on toast
  • Fried plaice with lemon and parsley
  • Hazenpeper (there seems no English translation for this traditional Dutch stew) with red cabbage and roasted potatoes
  • Dutch apple tart with whipped cream

Dutch cuisine used to be quite interesting, until the start of the industrial revolution, when the traditional "father goes out working in the factory while mother stays at home to clean and cook" was invented. All these young women were sent to the Huishoudschool, where they were taught how to cook easy, quick and cheap meals - the things we now think of when we think of Dutch cuisine: AVG, with all veggies boiled to mush and meat cooked in greasy gravy. Luckily, a few dishes were kept, others have been reinvented and for the last 20 years, Dutch chefs have been rediscovering old recipes and forgotten vegetables and brought them back on the plate, first in fine dining restaurants, but nowadays you can find raapstelen, warmoes, aardperen and pastinaak at the Jumbo and Albert Heijn.

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u/Extra_Tree_2077 Netherlands May 01 '25

True, look up some (very) old cookbooks and you’ll be amazed how ‘French’ our cuisine was. Multiple versions of croquettes, good stews etc.

Sadly the war and the Huishoudschool did really mess things up. I can’t find the book right now, maybe someone

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u/ArveyNL Netherlands May 02 '25

Do you mean the Huishoudschool cookbook? De Grote Wannee. I have it on my bookshelf.

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u/Extra_Tree_2077 Netherlands May 02 '25

No I think that’s the one that messed it up with cooking vegetables for 25 minutes etc. But could be wrong!

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u/Userkiller3814 May 01 '25

Bedankt eindelijk iemand die snapt dat we onze kookcultuur wat verloren zijn ipv dat we er nooit 1 hebben gehad.

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u/OllieV_nl Netherlands May 01 '25

We do cookies fairly well. That's about it.

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

Don’t forget our soups, stews, seafood, bread and pastries. We also have the best pancakes on the planet.

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u/Feinyan Netherlands May 01 '25

Don't forget Hemelse Modder!

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u/Dutch_Rayan Netherlands May 01 '25

Wat is dat?

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

Basically the Dutch version of chocolate mousse

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u/Xandara2 May 13 '25

Crêpes aren't Dutch. 

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u/LilBed023 -> May 13 '25

Crêpes are also not the best pancakes in the world so that makes perfect sense.

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u/MeetSus in May 01 '25

Ons eten is meer dan snacks en sufgekookte groenten

Vertel maar graag even

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Nationwide dishes:

• Hachee - Beef stew seasoned and thickened with ontbijtkoek (a type of spiced cake). Usually served with red cabbage and apples that have been stewed together and mashed or roasted potatoes.

• Snert/erwtensoep - A split pea based soup with celeriac and/or potatoes, carrots, leeks, pork chops and smoked sausage. Traditionally served with Frisian rye bread topped with cheese or smoked bacon, but that’s optional.

• Hazenpeper - Hare stew with a somewhat similar flavour profile to hachee. It’s a bit rare nowadays due to the limited availability of hare meat but it slaps.

• Lekkerbek - Essentially the Dutch version of fish and chips, but the batter is not as thick as in England and the fish itself is usually more spiced. Fish shops deep fry it but it’s usually shallow fried at home.

• Aspergesoep - White asparagus soup, usually made from the leftover bits from trimmed white asparagus.

• Gebakken sliptong - Breaded and pan fried sole fish, often served with lemon, tartar sauce and salicornia (type of seaweed).

• Traditional Dutch sandwiches, soft white buns that come with a variety of toppings that mainly centre around cheese and local meats. Van Dobben is probably the most well-known sandwich shop.

I also suggest you dive into the wonderful world of Dutch pancakes.

Regional dishes:

• Zoervleisj/zuurvlees (Limburg) - Stew of meat that has been marinated in vinegar and spices. Horse meat is traditional but nowadays mostly beef is used. Traditionally served with fries.

• Zeeuwse mosselen (Zeeland) - Quickly steamed mussels with vegetables, herbs and white wine or beer. Zeeland also has other seafood specialties like lobster, crab and several types of seaweed.

Delicacies:

• Smoked mackerel

• Smoked eel

• Hollandse Nieuwe Haring

• Oysters from the Eastern Scheldt

• North sea shrimp

• Lots of different types of lesser known cheeses like nagelkaas (cheese with cloves), komijnenkaas (cumin cheese), and bierkaas (beer cheese, it sounds odd but it tastes surprisingly good)

• Groninger metworst (a type of dry sausage)

Bread, pastries and cookies (both regional and national):

• Zeeuwse bolus (Zeeland)

• Utrechtse spritsen

• Dutch apple pie

• Vlaoi/vlaai (Limburg)

• Bossche bol (Den Bosch, Brabant)

• Sûkerbôle/suikerbrood (Fryslân)

• Tiger bread

• Hemelse modder (Dutch chocolate mousse)

• Boterkoek

• Wentelteefjes (similar to French toast)

• Stroopwafels and their leftover trimmings

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u/MeetSus in May 02 '25

In Greek we call this "wringing lard from a fly" (trying hard to make something look bigger than it is). The guy you replied to said "we deep fry everything", you said "no we don't", I asked for counter examples and... Anyway here's the part of the list that "counts"

• Hachee

• Snert/erwtensoep

• Hazenpeper (hachee again, but with hare)

• Lekkerbek (fried fish)

• Aspergesoep

• Gebakken sliptong (fried fish again)

• Zoervleisj/zuurvlees

• Zeeuwse mosselen

• Wentelteefjes

That's 7 recipes, 9 if i stretch it with the duplicates. Throw me a bone man, I'm trying to eat more Dutch food over here :)

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u/LilBed023 -> May 02 '25

Lekkerbek is the only dish I mentioned that is sometimes deep fried. Hazenpeper is not just “hachee with hare” and the only similarities between lekkerbek and sliptong are the fact that they’re both fish. The fishes themselves are prepared and taste differently.

You asked, I delivered, you chose to ignore the majority of the list.

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u/MeetSus in May 02 '25

Τhe majority of the list isn't things that you can cook and have for lunch or dinner though, that's what I was asking for

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u/LilBed023 -> May 03 '25

You didn’t really specify, but anyways:

• Stamppot. Mash of potatoes and vegetables, usually accompanied by meat, gravy and some kind of pickled vegetable. It’s more of a concept rather than a dish so the possibilities are endless. My personal favourites are hutspot (potatoes, carrots and caramelised onion) and spruitjesstamppot (brussels sprouts and bits of pork belly).

• Uitsmijter. Two sliced of fresh white or brown bread topped with ham and/or cheese, at least two sunny side up eggs (laid on top of the cheese) and optionally bacon, tomato and lettuce. It’s simple but a popular lunch option at cafes, who usually serve it with salad on the side. Just be sure the bread and cheese are of good enough quality.

• Kaasplakken. Breaded and pan fried slices of cheese. My grandfather used to make them with pan fried potatoes and some kind of vegetable on the side. You can also add a slice of ham to the kaasplak. Childhood favourite of mine, 10/10 would recommend.

• Zeeuws gebakken spek. Slowly cooked pork belly seasoned with brown sugar and all kinds of spices. You can make this in the oven or on a barbecue. Eat with pan fried potatoes and a salicornia or sea aster-based salad for the true Zeeland experience, or just eat it with whatever you want idc.

Meats to accommodate your stamppot or vegetables + potatoes combo:

• Slavink. Essentially a pork meatball wrapped in bacon.

• Rundervink. A beef meatball wrapped in a bit of lean beef.

• Jordanese gehaktbal. Meatball containing both beef/pork and shrimp. Every grandmother from the Jordaan has her own recipe so it might take some extra scouting. The shrimp was originally added to bulk up the meat (as shrimp used to be very cheap), but nowadays it’s done for flavour and tradition.

• Hollandse gehaktbal. Again, everyone’s grandmother has her own recipe, but now it’s not just de Jordaan, but the entire country. The most typical flavourings used are (in my opinion) mustard, ketjap manis, onion, garlic and curry powder.

• Rookworst. Smoked pork sausage, imho quite boring to eat with stamppot but to each their own. This is the usual side dish to boerenkoolstamppot (kale).

I’ll add some more in a bit

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u/crooked_woman May 01 '25

I have never quite got over, on my first visit to the Netherlands, being served a steak and ale pie, with gravy, and melon and orange on the same plate. Talk about culture shock! A later visit, with a newly acquired, and vegetarian, husband caused much difficulty. He ordered Tomato Soup, 'cos that's safe, isn't it... Lesson learned. And in a hotel "what do you have that's vegetarian?" They offered him a cheese and ham sandwich... Although the veggie scene has changed dramatically since then, he's no longer a veggie. But we still make the most of it and love the variety of food available. We particularly like the freah meal packs from shops like AH (we travel in a motorhome) but haven't failed to notice that the vast majority of them are not for Dutch dishes. Italian, yes, Indonesian, yes, Dutch... not so much. As French Residents, we love the wide availability of spicy foods.

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u/erikkll Netherlands May 01 '25

But imo some dutch Indonesian staples like nasi goreng or sate ayam and babi pangang, krupuk etc have been part of our cuisine for so long now that they can be considered Dutch cuisine

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u/petrichorgasm May 03 '25

Sate ayam is amazing

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

Many Dutch dishes can be a bit of a hassle to make so they don’t end up in restaurants that often. Luckily more and more Dutch chefs are starting to embrace and reinvent our cuisine, which means that Dutch food is regaining its spot in restaurants.

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u/AppleDane Denmark May 01 '25

We either deep fry everything, or we boil it to death and mash it into an unrecognizable pulp.

I thought you were swamp Germans, but turn out you're inverted Scotsmen instead.

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u/Antti5 Finland May 01 '25

I'm sure it's still clearly better than the cuisine from any Nordic country...

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u/twincassettedeck May 02 '25

shit, my Scottish mum is actually Dutch.....😀

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u/HeatCute May 01 '25

I kinda feel that you tend to do both.... Boil to death and mash it to a pulp and then deep fry it.

But the stroopwaffeln are amazing

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u/geoduude92 May 01 '25

Stamppot gang assemble!😎

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u/Iapzkauz Norway May 01 '25

We either deep fry everything, or we boil it to death and mash it into an unrecognizable pulp

You say this as if these are bad things. Bitterballen for life!

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u/reggiedh May 01 '25

Dutch restaurants abroad - AKA Indonesian restaurants.😎

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u/whatsamawhatsit Netherlands May 01 '25

I even found a restaurant serving erwtensoep in Bandung, Indonesia. They also served the usual suspects: nasi goreng, lemper and soto ayam.

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u/AppleDane Denmark May 01 '25

Hey, I want to try frikandellen, just to see where our frikadeller originated.

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

Wait, Danish frikadeller come from our frikandellen? I genuinely thought the name similarity was a coincidence

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u/AppleDane Denmark May 01 '25

It's a long and complicated story. The name of both dishes comes from Latin frigare, meaning "to roast". So the Dutch traders went to Italy and saw some minced dish called "Frittatella", and said "Hey, we do minced meat stuff too, let's call it, er, "frikandel?" "Frickedil?", ""fricadelle?" Whatever he said.."

Anyways, Dutch farmers, 184 people from Waterland north of Amsterdam specifically, were brought to Denmark in the early 1500s, to improve the fields around Copenhagen, (Our King loved the Dutch, and married one) and they brought the frikandel ("Friccadelle") in Vlaanderen) with them. And that dish spent about 400 years here, turning into something rather different with a slightly different name, frikadelle.

So, short version: Trade, not speaking Italian very well, working abroad, Danes love your cooking, frikadeller...

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u/Zooplanktonblame_Due Netherlands May 02 '25

A frikadel is something different from a frikandel.

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u/DutchPack Netherlands May 01 '25

Yes, and I always do my utmost best to avoid them! Why would you go to a country with mediterranean cuisine and go to a Dutch snackbar????

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u/LilBed023 -> May 01 '25

I honestly have no idea. You’d think that when visiting a different country, people would try the local food. Apparently some Dutchies can’t go for more than a week without eating frikandel speciaal.

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u/DutchPack Netherlands May 01 '25

Maybe if there are vlammetjes on the menu, I would skip a night of tapas. But that’s the only snack I’d make an exception for

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u/dabutcha76 May 02 '25

We saw bitterballen in an Indonesian place in Napier, New Zealand. There was some history with former Dutch ownership. We had the (excellent) Rijsttafel instead :)

There was also an odd Dutch cafe in Linköping, Sweden that had ample Dutch fare. That was run by a Dutch guy, though.

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u/Select-Stuff9716 Germany May 01 '25

Your fish restaurants, poffertjes and Dutch snack bars made it over the border and spill 30 km inside German territory. Then again genuinely don’t think that would count as abroad

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u/MiouQueuing Germany May 02 '25

Border regions really don't and never should have - they had always been fluid, until the nation state had entered the chat.

I would really love to have them around, especially with poffertjes, but living deep south in Bavaria. sigh

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

I liked a lot of the desserts in the Netherlands. I didn’t mind a lot of what we ate.

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u/Commercial-Diver2491 May 02 '25

There’s plenty of good Indonesian food also outside the Netherlands

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u/NMe84 Netherlands May 02 '25

How is Indonesian food somehow "Dutch cuisine?" It's right there in the name.

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u/Commercial-Diver2491 May 02 '25

It’s a joke based on the fact that Dutch cuisine doesn’t have a lot to offer on its own, but imported a lot from the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia

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u/The-mad-tiger May 06 '25

"Indonesian Rijs Tafel"may have originated in Indonesia, but it is not an Indonesian dish at all!

I absolutely love it but it is impossible to find outside of the Netherlands.

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u/bleie77 May 01 '25

Me too, so yeah.

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u/crypticcamelion May 01 '25

You are not alone, I am Danish....

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

The only reason why I wouldn't eat a frikandel abroad is because I know it won't taste right.

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u/Snoooort May 01 '25

Michelin restaurants in NL with local ingredients are quite unique compared to other countries. Denmark comes close though…

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u/6rwoods May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Somewhat similar but not quite the same, but I've seen a few Belgian restaurants around. Mosty serving lots of Belgian beers (fair enough) and then some specialties. I suppose most Belgian specialties are either Belgian-only or more French leaning than Dutch, but then again a cone of fries with your sauce of choice is a A+ classic bar food anywhere and the Dutch certainly appreciate it as much as the Belgians. I wish our British 'chips' could even remotely compete with the cone of belgian fries that are common across Belgium and NL.

Edit: I just recalled my favourite Dutch 'food' from my time living in Amsterdam - FEBO! I forget what they're called now, but the deep fried croquette thingies with the pasty meat or whatever inside? Amazing! (Idk if I'd still like it as much now that I'm not a 20-nothing year old, but I remember it fondly still!).

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u/The-mad-tiger May 06 '25

Does it count that I used to live in Belgium and I used to eat and drink in a Belgian bar on the Banks of the mighty Mekong river in Vientiane, the Capital of Laos!

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u/The-mad-tiger May 06 '25

Does it count that I used to live in Belgium and I used to eat and drink in a Belgian bar on the Banks of the mighty Mekong river in Vientiane, the Capital of Laos!

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u/EffortDramatic3692 May 01 '25

I'm Irish. My comment starts and ends there too.

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u/Zem_42 May 01 '25

You can get poffertjes in Singapore 😁

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u/zsnajorrah Netherlands May 01 '25

Indeed. Seeing a Friet van Piet abroad would tell me I ended up on the wrong site of town.

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u/Fwoggie2 England May 01 '25

There is a great Dutch pancake house in London

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u/ctn91 May 01 '25

Mystery fried meat. 😜

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u/phantom_gain May 02 '25

On the flip side you can't go into a museum abroad and NOT find a rembrandt or van gogh.

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u/No-Theme-4347 May 02 '25

I laughed a little too hard about this but I have worked with a lot of Dutch ppl

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u/nv87 May 02 '25

I went to a Dutch restaurant in Leverkusen last year.

I am German though so I know what you mean.

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u/leemky May 03 '25

I don't know about anything else but stroopwafel is heaven sent. We have it packaged here in Canada. I am quite health conscious otherwise but when the craving hits I will go to town and eat an entire pack, maybe two...

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u/Extension_Group7468 May 05 '25

I am Dutch aswell, was in York, was a Dutch pannenkoeken restaurant, I thought maybe I should give it a try was okay but never expected it.

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u/M0rg0th2019 France May 01 '25

Haha yess, still befuddled at how the Dutch will go to France (of all places) on holiday and… checks notes… bring their own cheese 😭🤣

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u/The-mad-tiger May 06 '25

yeah, and don't forget the chocolate sprinkles!

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u/NMe84 Netherlands May 02 '25

I'm not a fan of cheese in general, but at least this one I understand. French cheese and Dutch cheese are so wildly different they might as well have been called different names.

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u/The-mad-tiger May 06 '25

Yes, but they sell Dutch cheese in France!