Hagelslag! Stroopjesvet! I remember how years ago Sarah Jessica Parker did a commercial for HEMA, a tiny, cosy store behind the dykes for bric-a-brac and ready-to-wear-and-throw-away-again clothing from the giga-rich Brenningmeyer Dynasty, and she butterflied around and 'loved it all'. And me loved how she pronounced "Poffertjes" (a hot fluffy mini pancake) triumphantly. She did it so correct, that me and family decided to go out eating on the 'Puffhertjes Touring Boat' on the city's main river. And it was wonderful, thanks to the Sex In The City alum who, I also remember, had removed that horrible wart from her chin for the occasion. I just wonder how much they paid her.... in puffhertjes? Did she think that Rotterdam, still half in ruins from Hitler's bombings, was the worst sh^thole she ever saw? All the American post war relief for Reconstruction went to Berlin, you know. But these days we have a true ultra-Dutch Skyline. And a puffhertjes fleet! ...'Stroopjesvet' you make from the lard from cooked bacon strips, mixing it with 'Zeeuwse keukenstroop', an evangelistically thick sugar beet melasses. It's delightfully unhealthy and may sound totally gruesome, but it's SO creamy delcious that I'm sure that all angels in both Heaven and Hell are addicted to stroopjesvet! A pity Sarah never praised it in a HEMA sequel; "strwoapjes fat". Maybe she was afraid her wart would grow back....
All of those are just snacks filled with sugar butter or chocolate, dutch people avoid seasoning in their food like the plague 😂 But i wouldnt leave the country even if the russians come or the dams break.
Dutch mustard is so potent and sharp it'll blow the hairs of your nose clean off. My wife is Mexican, and eats jalapenos as if it were potato chips, but this mustard is too spicy for her. Let alone our old cheeses, hams, winter vegetables (like parsnips, turnips, celeriac), and you'll squeek a different tune.
Well, the main molecule causing the perception of spiciness in Mexican cuisine is capsaicin (though obviously there are others). In mustard (and also wasabi and radish) it's allyl-isothiocyanate that causes the sense of spiciness. Both bind to the TRPV1 receptor and, obviously, your wife is used to eating spicy food so her TRPV1 receptor is more desensitized and she needs more capsaicin for the same sensation. TRPV1 is a pain receptor and as a result the body will release endorphins (basically pain killers) which will make you feel better (it's also addictive as such). Allyl-isothiocynata, however, also binds the TRPA1 recepter. Another pain receptor capsaicin doesn't bind (and so your wife obviously isn't used to it). It also causes a different experience; TRPV1 activation leads to a burning pain; whilst TRPA1 activation leads to a irritating, itchy, cold pain and also stimulates tear release and coughing. Other TRPA1 activators are allicin - found in garlic - gingerol - found in ginger - and cinnemaldehyde - found in cinnamon. Both capsaicin and allyl-isothiocyanate cause pain as to protect the plant. Humans, though, have grown to like them (due to the addictive release of endorphins that comes as a result of their consumption). Although, if you think about it, it's not that bad for these plants (e.g. peppers are a pretty popular crop as a result).
Well done! Except, I see many of you talk about ‘broodje kaas’. This is indeed a staple breakfast/lunch thing in NL. However, what you have there is not real cheese nor real bread. Go to a real cheese store weekmarket or a larger supermarket with a fresh cheese section and get yourself some belegen kaas, 48+ then some good bread, fresh, not white!
You go David 👊🏼 And as an Asian myself, being raised since age four in the Netherlands, I tell you, I love the Dutch cuisine. The mashed potatoes... The „stampotten" My Dutch friends loved to eat at my place, Indonesian dishes, while I loved to eat at theirs. I was fed up with the complicated Indonesian dishes, while it was foreign yo them. My mother couldn't cook Dutch food (without giving it an Asian twist) so traditional Dutch food was foreign to me.😅 I loved the simplicity... Potato, one vegetable, meat and gravy.... That's it. Later on, left parental home, I could cook Indonesian as well as Dutch. When cooking Dutch for my mom, she would compliment me how well I could cook Dutch 😊
Yeah, my mom was Indo but that just means they cooked everything. Dutch food and Indo food. I just grew up with a lot of variety, pasta, potatoes, rice, crunchy bread. My spice collection is big but I don't value using more of them over a lovely plate of boerenkool stampot. Though to be fair I do use Aromat on it too, with the fried bacon, yum. I think the dutch like variety a lot too, that's why the stores are so full of dutch versions of everything.
In 1968, me and my two high school buddies were on holiday in Swinging Londen. Psychedelia! Mini skirts! In our hotel we met three Dutch girls who originated from Ambon. Eventually my best friend would marry one of them. (yes, only one) But they invited us at home after the vacation, and their dinners and snacks were a revelation. The Indonesian spices! What they did with chicken meat! They changed our gastronomical lives!
@@willemvandeursen3105 Haha and that is why when I meet new people ask where my parents were from and after saying she was born in Indonesia they'd proudly talk about what food they ate at home from there or other comments about how nice the food must be at home. All the associations used to be very positive. I'm not sure if that happens in other countries but dutch people always loved the food.
@@willemvandeursen3105 how cool! My grandfather left the Moluccas somewhere 1910-1915. My father was born on Java, but returned like a salmon to the Moluccas. Me too, like many cousins. This year I hope to bring my Godson, the only grandchild of my parents, to Ambon and our village Aboru on the island Haruku on so more than 125 years after his great grand father was born there. Thanks for sharing your story!✌🏼🙏🏽
@@Haroekoe, The Moluccas in the Netherlands lost a lot of sympathy with their train hijack in the seventies...But it's a fact that their commmunity wasn't treated kindly by the Dutch government.
As a Dutchie I love this. But as someone who sold fish for 15 years I'm allergic about people saying that herring is raw because it isn't. It has been pickled in brine for atleast a few weeks so not raw at all.
Well, apparently it can either mean not cooked or not processed, and where the first is true the second clearly is not. Would be much clearer if people would just call it 'salted herring' (or brined) as the Dutch do. Also because when using raw as uncooked you wouldn't know if it's salted herring or pickled herring ('zure haring'); where I'm pretty sure most are referring the salted variant. There's also a smoked variant that's uncooked :-)
I have’t got the chance to eat a lot of Dutch traditional foods, but from what I’ve ate, the Netherlands has some national yum-yum’s that are far better than my country’s cuisine, for the first time I can eat something and not feel like I ate iron because its too heavy.
@@hidavidwen I am Romanian. I don’t like our cuisine because it is so heavy. So much pig fats are into it from all the “mici”, “sarmale” and “ciolan”. To help the poor soul who has to eat all of this mountain of fat (that isn’t fried by the way, it’s made either in the oven, pot or grill, depending on the dish; traditional cuisine doesn’t do frying at all), you get pickled cabbage and depending on the dish even more pickles (I hate pickles), and a crap ton of bread, or what is essentially, boiled yeast that dries your mouth badly, we call it “mămăligă”. And when it’s not pig fat, its still fat, like “zacuscă”, which is kind of (but not really) a vegetable jam that is fat. This isn’t the only fat mixture of vegetables we have. Our food is too fat, and since it isn’t fried, it doesn’t even taste so good. The only reason I tolerate it or at times miss it is because of nostalgia. Should I have been raises on a different diet (like the Dutch one), you better believe I would hate it all.
Our flavour is not in our meals. Our meals are quite sober and filling, not elaborate. During your day you need to fill your stomach and get back to work. Snacking culture is a whole different thing and that's where you find a ton of flavour. Just because traditionally we don't do meals the same way southern Europe does, doesn't mean we don't do flavour. We just don't do food the same way.
I like our meals like huts pot Simple but you can make it so good tasting by keeping the flavours without changing them. Meat ,vegetables potatoes and butter, salt and pepper.. Ofc i like spices etc but it doesn't necessarily make it better.
Traditional Dutch cuisine isn't very refined, but they have some great dishes. And as the main colonial power in thé spice islands, they were among the first to adopt spices into their food. Just compare Dutch speculaas and Belgian speculoos (Biscoff), basically the same, but the Dutch use more spice in the recipe, the Belgians rely heavier on the candy syrup for taste. The Netherlands have always been a land of commerce, with a few agricultural products that were very exportable, most famously the gouda cheese. It reflects in their cuisine. Unfortunately, it also reflects in their sometimes very spartan view of food, where only the nutritional value was important, but that is changing, luckily.
A mix of Calvinism and post WW2 poverty really did a number on Dutch cuisine. The protestant sobriety, simplicity and few earthly pleasures kind of vibe I think is relatively well known but at the end of and in the years after world war 2 the Netherlands was *very* poor. Like famine poor. Scraping by for whatever was edible poor. It left a deep and lasting mark on generations and on food culture.
I think people typically don't associate certain Indonesian fusion kitchen as "Dutch" or "Dutch influence". "Rijsttafel" was something that colonists created to enjoy local cuisine catered to Dutch taste. In many dishes like meat stews and mashed potatoes, valuable spices from the colonies were also used. Particularly nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon.
@@SOFTCOCOGIRL but less so in Western Europe, the major players in the Middle Ages were on the Mediterranean. Also, the Silk Route was very dangerous, and often interrupted, hence why they were so outrageously expensive. It's still an expression to say that something is 'peperduur' in some languages, when pepper was more expensive than gold. When the Portuguese found a passage to India, it was a very big deal, because they could cut out a lot of the middlemen and they made the supply much more reliable. The Dutch took over that trade after colonising the islands where many of those spices came from.
@@SOFTCOCOGIRL those spices traded were reserved exclusively for upper class who could afford it. The Dutch East India company had a monopoly on Asian spices and it became available even to commoners like tradesmen and service workers.
The great thing about being Dutch is that wherever you go in the world, they likely have tastier food! (yet every time I return back home I can't wait to get some stamppot!)
Aaahhww❤❤❤ you are amazing i really thought this was going to be another joke about just hagelslag or broodje kaas! Soon as I saw de Haring i knew you are the best!🎉 thank you for appreciating the real foods of this country!!❤🎉
Watching Americans snark about food is always kinda funny when you consider that their kitchen is essentially comprised of a few good dishes imported from overseas (granted, this is true of many places) and the rest is just 'can we deepfry this?' Having studied in Canada and hearing US students claim that using a microwave counted as cooking was just depressing.
Clearly u know NOTHING of soul food or Tex-Mex. And being a country of immigrants its cuisine is mixed base, American cuisine is new compared to other countries but it is nonetheless there, that u r lacking in this knowledge is a u problem.
😂 someone is butthurt and defensive, it's okay dude 😊 we still love the NL, but don't bash on Americans when you have never tried the cuisine there. Go to Los Angeles, some of the best fusion of cuisine in the world also
She is actually right. From the 17th till the 1900's, the Dutch actually had a good bourgeois cuisine that was forgotten in the beginning of the 20th century because of the introduction of the "Huishoudscholen" (Homekeeping Schools) teaching a way of cooking to feed a lot of hungry mouths after the Industrial Revolution. Hence the mashed potato-dishes. Nobody ate stamppot before 1880's.
Also I believe we cook at in our modern day kitchen the most varied of foods, we eat Italian, Chinese, French, American, Asian, Japanese, East Europian, Spanish ... besides our tradional dutch dishes.
Yeah, but you guys SUCKKKKK at it... I'm sorry but the worst foods I've ever had was here, ad basically none of the best. You also can't get the credits for others countries cuisines. You can't say "Dutch food is really good because we have Indonesian food" that's not how that works
@@anaidodonata3752go see for yourself schat, we have all the fucking flavors. Nonetheless were we the one shipping and bringing all your spices everywhere. So you should exactly thank us for the privilege you now have of eating so many different flavors
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm kapsalon... So delicious. I'm from Sweden but lived in the Netherlands for 6 years and that was my favourite thing to eat for sure
Man I've never had an apple pie other then a dutch apple pie, but I can't imagine better pancakes or apple pies then we make it. The only thing people know from outside of the Netherlands are Stroopwafels and the fried stuff.
Haha yeah I only knew about stroopwafels before coming here. But yeah...I do love the apple pie (I had one the other day from my favorite place, Winkel 43, in Amsterdam)
As a White dutch woman I love making surinamese dishes. I grew up on my moms old dutch style meals. When I was 9 I moved to a very multicultural city and got introduced to Surinamese and Mediterranean kitchen and I loved it. When I got married to a Chinese man I learned to cook Chinese food. Allot of dutch woman love to cook and are great at it. For one of the smallest country's we put so much diverse food on the table. We are not without flavor we are very very adventurous when it comes to food.
Many don't know actually that hutspot is Spanish, it was discovered by a little boy at a Spanish military camp, he stole it and let his family eat it. And they learned the recipe
That you for defending the Netherlands. I do have to say though, we mostly excell in like sweet and savory snacks, full meals we do lack a bit of variety. 🇳🇱
FRENCH fries. But hey, there are no American fries either, right? But eating fries with ketchup is BARBARIC, Yanks. Try it with mayonnese - if you can buy it, in America - and have an orgasm.
Every country has it’s flavorful food. Just because you don’t know them doesn’t mean they don’t exist and just because you only like a certain flavor palette doesn’t mean other palettes are bad
Who-ever says that true Dutch cuisine sucks has never had a stampot or snert. I would rather ask why all the famous international cuisines are so obsessed with tomato, dough and/or rice Anyone who dislikes our fast-food culture has never tasted kaassoufle or kibbeling. Much better than any burger or piece of dough Also, oliebollen beat churros with ease
From Germany here (every year on vacation in our dutch Holliday home). The Dutch bread is really bad compared to German, toast is the only ok thing there. The cheese however is indeed really good. Fish is also very nice. Apart from that most of the stuff is just fried. There are good snacks like kibbeling or a bami hap, but I'm always glad to come back home after a few weeks to eat non fried food again.
Theres quite a few around. I saw a real snackbar on Venice Beach and I ran into a Dutch traditional restaurant on the mountains of chili. It even served stamppot, but witj sweet potato instead of normal potatoes
Dutchman here.... she's right, our cuisine is not something to boast about. South Asian countries will beat us in every corner. That's why we have so many foreign restaurants here.
You can say what you want about Dutch food, especially the stereotypical dinner, its healthy and cery filling, can be made easily for a ton of people and made us the tallest country
Fun fact Pancakes do come from China and Nepal originally. but we the Dutch brought them to Europe and spread them all over the world. we used to make them the traditional way as the Chinese and Nepalese do as well. but we changed our own recipe over the years. France for example still make them the original way. hence the reason why they are tinner and called crepes. but yeah we the Netherlands spread the pancake all over the world. and we do make the best pancakes ever.
"Rijsttafel" is actually Indonesian, not Dutch. But as we are connected with the Indonesian and the culture for centuries, it is a kitchen that is being enjoyed a lot overhere.
No, indonesian and/or most Chinese foods in the Netherlands are called so, but in Indonesia of China the foods are quite different in flavor. So it became Dutch food.
This clip has a few flaws. For starters, Wonderbread is illegal (Thank God!!), we put butter on our slice of bread, and a sandwich is never eaten with knife and fork.
The Netherlands have an excellent Indonesian kitchen due to the more then 300.000 Dutch/Mollucans/Indo's who came back from Indonesia last century. Carolina reapers is used in that kitchen, so I dare you to taste the flavor.:D
People who say that are usually the ones that had their tastebuds burned of by spicy food. If you don’t eat spicy food you can taste the true flavor of things, instead of everything tasting like hot sauce.
I have visited my companies factory in the Netherlands several times. They have wonderful Sweets and such, but I could not get past the Horse meat sausages they seemed to serve daily in the cafeteria. so I just held out for McDonalds every night.
Amber knows the Netherlands well, including the food. And sure, there are great snacks, great pastries, and great dishes that were appropriated from former colonies. But as for for the rest, this short only proves her right. Stamp/hutspot and pea soup are nice and filling, and they taste like home. I like them. But compared to, say, biryani, tamales, adobo, pizza, a good tagine, or any of a thousand other dishes that the countries they originate from can pride themselves on... it's all B-tier at best, let's be honest. And that's ok, we will always have stroopwafels ;-)
Haha thanks. Amber is a comedian and also married to a Dutchman and has lived in the Netherlands...so she does know the food...but hey, it's all for fun and something to talk about =) And yes...stroopwafels are amazing!
@@Markuden The history of the pizza is really interesting! There are examples of precursors that date back to the Roman empire, in the ruins of Pompei there was even a finding of a fresco depicting something that looks very much like a pizza. Tomatoes are just a "recent" iteration. And honestly, "recent", here, means since 1548, I would say that at some point you will have to give people a break and acknowledge that they have made it their own, won't you? Going back to the Dutch, there are several examples of local delicacies that could never have existed without herbs and spices that are very much not native to the country. I would not call those "appropriation" though. Spices that go in speculaas, for example, are roughly comparable to those used in Indonesian flag cake. But you would never confuse the two! (both are really yummy, by the way :-) )
UgHhH did you just say tamales?!😂 First of all .... No ❤ haha but yeah all are great dude. I wouldn't say appropriate, it was more exploitation for the spices during the VOC era. There's a great book called Curse of the Nutmeg on that.
Dutch kitchen is actally authentic. America has no kitchen. BBQ is Australian, Hamburgers are German, French fries are Belgian and everything inbetween is from Asia, Arabia or Europe.
Nederlandse is dope asf ❤Gezouten herring...omg...stompotten...dutch gravy meat en veges is like 🤤😋 best thing ever in winter after ice skating and snow fietsen. Dessert waffles en sweet as pankoeken. Delish nederlandse food. Hard to beat.
Considering that the Dutch had a monopoly on the spice trade in the 17th century, to claim that flavour "forgot" the Netherlands is particularly uninformed. Many of our staples show our deep intimacy with spices, from worst to cookies to pies to drinks. Many countries have tried to copy "speculaas" for example, but failed. Gin was invented as a poor-man's substitute for our Jenever. Etc, etc, etc.
There are so many great international foods in the netherlands. So if you say there's no flavourful food in the Nerherlands your just not looking hard enough
Tbh I like dutch food that actually has effort put into it but I couldn't survive eating only dutch food for more than a week . I am half dutch , half bulgarian and I need myself some rice and some spice !
Mans just eating hagelslag straight from the package. A true Dutchman he is.
That is the go-to place if the cookie jar is empty mate. And we have a fruity version too; it's almost healthy!
@@MadXRV😂
Hagelslag! Stroopjesvet! I remember how years ago Sarah Jessica Parker did a commercial for HEMA, a tiny, cosy store behind the dykes for bric-a-brac and ready-to-wear-and-throw-away-again clothing from the giga-rich Brenningmeyer Dynasty, and she butterflied around and 'loved it all'. And me loved how she pronounced "Poffertjes" (a hot fluffy mini pancake) triumphantly. She did it so correct, that me and family decided to go out eating on the 'Puffhertjes Touring Boat' on the city's main river. And it was wonderful, thanks to the Sex In The City alum who, I also remember, had removed that horrible wart from her chin for the occasion.
I just wonder how much they paid her.... in puffhertjes? Did she think that Rotterdam, still half in ruins from Hitler's bombings, was the worst sh^thole she ever saw? All the American post war relief for Reconstruction went to Berlin, you know. But these days we have a true ultra-Dutch Skyline. And a puffhertjes fleet!
...'Stroopjesvet' you make from the lard from cooked bacon strips, mixing it with 'Zeeuwse keukenstroop', an evangelistically thick sugar beet melasses. It's delightfully unhealthy and may sound totally gruesome, but it's SO creamy delcious that I'm sure that all angels in both Heaven and Hell are addicted to stroopjesvet!
A pity Sarah never praised it in a HEMA sequel; "strwoapjes fat". Maybe she was afraid her wart would grow back....
i love hagelslag i eat it every morning
The Dutch cuisine is mostly homecooking.
While US cuisine is mostly microwaved.
1: the Dutch can’t cook, 2 it’s sacrilege calling “ friet “ Dutch , it’s Freaking BELGIAN. ( who can cook )
So basically British without the oven
I wouldn’t go that far 😁
Only true dutchman know how amazing this is.
What's your favorite Dutch food??
@@hidavidwen Definitly drop or kaassoufle
@@Wasabiboikaassoufle is een echte pleb snack
The best is bami schijf👌🏻
All Belgians are laughing with this country who has no food culture 😅
Boterkoek!! Rondo’s !! Oliebollen !! From a French living in the Nederland. Pastry is dope here ❤
Don't forget the best of all... gevulde speculaas. Only available from September to December
All of those are just snacks filled with sugar butter or chocolate, dutch people avoid seasoning in their food like the plague 😂
But i wouldnt leave the country even if the russians come or the dams break.
Skipping oilballs in this list is a crime. Its really a staple for more then hundred years
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Appleflappen, frites oorlog hmmmmmm. Lived there 5 years and miss the food.
Dutch mustard is so potent and sharp it'll blow the hairs of your nose clean off. My wife is Mexican, and eats jalapenos as if it were potato chips, but this mustard is too spicy for her. Let alone our old cheeses, hams, winter vegetables (like parsnips, turnips, celeriac), and you'll squeek a different tune.
I puked with all these. Not intentionaly ofcourse im not an ass but it happened. I was extremely embarrassed.
@dezl6056 I am sorry to hear that. I grew up with the stuff and as a kid, licking the mustard spoon was a delight to me. Still is tbh
@@dezl6056you.... puked? Are you a baby? 😂
Well, the main molecule causing the perception of spiciness in Mexican cuisine is capsaicin (though obviously there are others). In mustard (and also wasabi and radish) it's allyl-isothiocyanate that causes the sense of spiciness.
Both bind to the TRPV1 receptor and, obviously, your wife is used to eating spicy food so her TRPV1 receptor is more desensitized and she needs more capsaicin for the same sensation. TRPV1 is a pain receptor and as a result the body will release endorphins (basically pain killers) which will make you feel better (it's also addictive as such).
Allyl-isothiocynata, however, also binds the TRPA1 recepter. Another pain receptor capsaicin doesn't bind (and so your wife obviously isn't used to it). It also causes a different experience; TRPV1 activation leads to a burning pain; whilst TRPA1 activation leads to a irritating, itchy, cold pain and also stimulates tear release and coughing.
Other TRPA1 activators are allicin - found in garlic - gingerol - found in ginger - and cinnemaldehyde - found in cinnamon.
Both capsaicin and allyl-isothiocyanate cause pain as to protect the plant. Humans, though, have grown to like them (due to the addictive release of endorphins that comes as a result of their consumption). Although, if you think about it, it's not that bad for these plants (e.g. peppers are a pretty popular crop as a result).
@@ewoudalliet1734 that is an amazing explanation! Many thanks!!
Thank you for this!
Dit hadden we even nodig
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Well done! Except, I see many of you talk about ‘broodje kaas’. This is indeed a staple breakfast/lunch thing in NL. However, what you have there is not real cheese nor real bread. Go to a real cheese store weekmarket or a larger supermarket with a fresh cheese section and get yourself some belegen kaas, 48+ then some good bread, fresh, not white!
I love white bread! But not the slice shown here. 😊
This! Houndred percent agree. Internationals were making a joke of my bread with cheese until they tasted good bread with belegen cheese 🎉🍞🤟
Add curry to it. My breakfast every day. Knäckebröd > curry > belegen kaas until you have a cheese tower.
Still shit
Wtf curry? The sauce in patat special?
You go David 👊🏼
And as an Asian myself, being raised since age four in the Netherlands, I tell you, I love the Dutch cuisine.
The mashed potatoes... The „stampotten"
My Dutch friends loved to eat at my place, Indonesian dishes, while I loved to eat at theirs.
I was fed up with the complicated Indonesian dishes, while it was foreign yo them. My mother couldn't cook Dutch food (without giving it an Asian twist) so traditional Dutch food was foreign to me.😅 I loved the simplicity... Potato, one vegetable, meat and gravy.... That's it.
Later on, left parental home, I could cook Indonesian as well as Dutch. When cooking Dutch for my mom, she would compliment me how well I could cook Dutch 😊
Yeah, my mom was Indo but that just means they cooked everything. Dutch food and Indo food. I just grew up with a lot of variety, pasta, potatoes, rice, crunchy bread. My spice collection is big but I don't value using more of them over a lovely plate of boerenkool stampot. Though to be fair I do use Aromat on it too, with the fried bacon, yum.
I think the dutch like variety a lot too, that's why the stores are so full of dutch versions of everything.
In 1968, me and my two high school buddies were on holiday in Swinging Londen. Psychedelia! Mini skirts!
In our hotel we met three Dutch girls who originated from Ambon. Eventually my best friend would marry one of them. (yes, only one) But they invited us at home after the vacation, and their dinners and snacks were a revelation. The Indonesian spices! What they did with chicken meat! They changed our gastronomical lives!
@@willemvandeursen3105 Haha and that is why when I meet new people ask where my parents were from and after saying she was born in Indonesia they'd proudly talk about what food they ate at home from there or other comments about how nice the food must be at home.
All the associations used to be very positive. I'm not sure if that happens in other countries but dutch people always loved the food.
@@willemvandeursen3105 how cool! My grandfather left the Moluccas somewhere 1910-1915.
My father was born on Java, but returned like a salmon to the Moluccas. Me too, like many cousins. This year I hope to bring my Godson, the only grandchild of my parents, to Ambon and our village Aboru on the island Haruku on so more than 125 years after his great grand father was born there.
Thanks for sharing your story!✌🏼🙏🏽
@@Haroekoe,
The Moluccas in the Netherlands lost a lot of sympathy with their train hijack in the seventies...But it's a fact that their commmunity wasn't treated kindly by the Dutch government.
The Netherlands are the best cookie country of the world. Actually, where do you think the word cookie comes from? 😂
Joe mama
english…like 90% of ‘dutch’ words the rest is german and french
@@PhilL30tard0 the English got the word cookie from the Dutch word koekje.
@@PhilL30tard0english also comes from germanic languages😂 you said a whole lot of nothing.
@@tristanjansen1876 sure buddy
Props on putting friet/patat instead of one of them. Can't imagine the comment section without that distinction 😂
Haha thanks! I heard about the fight over the NAME...so that's why I decided to include both. So funny...
Het is friet.
Friet is de vorm patat is de soort plant, vaak aardappel
@@hidavidwen curryworst, frikandel and frikadel are also contentious, and highly regionalised.
Aardappelstaafjes.
As a Dutchie I love this. But as someone who sold fish for 15 years I'm allergic about people saying that herring is raw because it isn't. It has been pickled in brine for atleast a few weeks so not raw at all.
I only went to the comments in hope to see someone pointing this out. Thank you, neighbour.
Sure, technically it's not raw, but it's not cooked either and that's what people mean when they say it's raw fish.
Well, apparently it can either mean not cooked or not processed, and where the first is true the second clearly is not. Would be much clearer if people would just call it 'salted herring' (or brined) as the Dutch do. Also because when using raw as uncooked you wouldn't know if it's salted herring or pickled herring ('zure haring'); where I'm pretty sure most are referring the salted variant. There's also a smoked variant that's uncooked :-)
Like people disgusted about it, not even wanting to try and then go to a Sushi restaurent and gorge themselves on raw fish, but hey, it's Sushi.
I have’t got the chance to eat a lot of Dutch traditional foods, but from what I’ve ate, the Netherlands has some national yum-yum’s that are far better than my country’s cuisine, for the first time I can eat something and not feel like I ate iron because its too heavy.
Thanks for sharing. What is your country's cuisine??
@@hidavidwen
I am Romanian. I don’t like our cuisine because it is so heavy. So much pig fats are into it from all the “mici”, “sarmale” and “ciolan”. To help the poor soul who has to eat all of this mountain of fat (that isn’t fried by the way, it’s made either in the oven, pot or grill, depending on the dish; traditional cuisine doesn’t do frying at all), you get pickled cabbage and depending on the dish even more pickles (I hate pickles), and a crap ton of bread, or what is essentially, boiled yeast that dries your mouth badly, we call it “mămăligă”.
And when it’s not pig fat, its still fat, like “zacuscă”, which is kind of (but not really) a vegetable jam that is fat. This isn’t the only fat mixture of vegetables we have. Our food is too fat, and since it isn’t fried, it doesn’t even taste so good. The only reason I tolerate it or at times miss it is because of nostalgia. Should I have been raises on a different diet (like the Dutch one), you better believe I would hate it all.
Our flavour is not in our meals. Our meals are quite sober and filling, not elaborate. During your day you need to fill your stomach and get back to work. Snacking culture is a whole different thing and that's where you find a ton of flavour. Just because traditionally we don't do meals the same way southern Europe does, doesn't mean we don't do flavour. We just don't do food the same way.
I like our meals like huts pot Simple but you can make it so good tasting by keeping the flavours without changing them.
Meat ,vegetables potatoes and butter, salt and pepper..
Ofc i like spices etc but it doesn't necessarily make it better.
Traditional Dutch cuisine isn't very refined, but they have some great dishes. And as the main colonial power in thé spice islands, they were among the first to adopt spices into their food. Just compare Dutch speculaas and Belgian speculoos (Biscoff), basically the same, but the Dutch use more spice in the recipe, the Belgians rely heavier on the candy syrup for taste.
The Netherlands have always been a land of commerce, with a few agricultural products that were very exportable, most famously the gouda cheese. It reflects in their cuisine.
Unfortunately, it also reflects in their sometimes very spartan view of food, where only the nutritional value was important, but that is changing, luckily.
A mix of Calvinism and post WW2 poverty really did a number on Dutch cuisine.
The protestant sobriety, simplicity and few earthly pleasures kind of vibe I think is relatively well known but at the end of and in the years after world war 2 the Netherlands was *very* poor. Like famine poor. Scraping by for whatever was edible poor. It left a deep and lasting mark on generations and on food culture.
I think people typically don't associate certain Indonesian fusion kitchen as "Dutch" or "Dutch influence". "Rijsttafel" was something that colonists created to enjoy local cuisine catered to Dutch taste. In many dishes like meat stews and mashed potatoes, valuable spices from the colonies were also used. Particularly nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon.
Spices were already here, read about the Silk Route.
@@SOFTCOCOGIRL but less so in Western Europe, the major players in the Middle Ages were on the Mediterranean. Also, the Silk Route was very dangerous, and often interrupted, hence why they were so outrageously expensive. It's still an expression to say that something is 'peperduur' in some languages, when pepper was more expensive than gold.
When the Portuguese found a passage to India, it was a very big deal, because they could cut out a lot of the middlemen and they made the supply much more reliable. The Dutch took over that trade after colonising the islands where many of those spices came from.
@@SOFTCOCOGIRL those spices traded were reserved exclusively for upper class who could afford it. The Dutch East India company had a monopoly on Asian spices and it became available even to commoners like tradesmen and service workers.
The great thing about being Dutch is that wherever you go in the world, they likely have tastier food!
(yet every time I return back home I can't wait to get some stamppot!)
Aaahhww❤❤❤ you are amazing i really thought this was going to be another joke about just hagelslag or broodje kaas! Soon as I saw de Haring i knew you are the best!🎉 thank you for appreciating the real foods of this country!!❤🎉
Watching Americans snark about food is always kinda funny when you consider that their kitchen is essentially comprised of a few good dishes imported from overseas (granted, this is true of many places) and the rest is just 'can we deepfry this?'
Having studied in Canada and hearing US students claim that using a microwave counted as cooking was just depressing.
Not just students who microwave………………………….
Clearly u know NOTHING of soul food or Tex-Mex.
And being a country of immigrants its cuisine is mixed base, American cuisine is new compared to other countries but it is nonetheless there, that u r lacking in this knowledge is a u problem.
pecan pie and chocolate chip cookies would like to have words with you @DeadmanHopping
The height of American cooking is to turn it into a casserole.
😂 someone is butthurt and defensive, it's okay dude 😊 we still love the NL, but don't bash on Americans when you have never tried the cuisine there. Go to Los Angeles, some of the best fusion of cuisine in the world also
She is actually right. From the 17th till the 1900's, the Dutch actually had a good bourgeois cuisine that was forgotten in the beginning of the 20th century because of the introduction of the "Huishoudscholen" (Homekeeping Schools) teaching a way of cooking to feed a lot of hungry mouths after the Industrial Revolution. Hence the mashed potato-dishes. Nobody ate stamppot before 1880's.
The Kaastengel from Albert Heijn (the one in the bakery section). It deserves a spot in this video ❤😂
MMM thanks Ella - I know the Kaastengel from AH =)
Its dry
AH kaasstengels are ass, jumbo ones are amazing tho
@@smooth_yogurto720 get the one from LIdle they are even better no cap. even their ham kaas croissants are better.
Blijf met je tengels van mijn kaasstengels af 🙂
Also I believe we cook at in our modern day kitchen the most varied of foods, we eat Italian, Chinese, French, American, Asian, Japanese, East Europian, Spanish ... besides our tradional dutch dishes.
Yeah, but you guys SUCKKKKK at it... I'm sorry but the worst foods I've ever had was here, ad basically none of the best. You also can't get the credits for others countries cuisines. You can't say "Dutch food is really good because we have Indonesian food" that's not how that works
The one traditional dish you mean. And right, everything else you mentioned is not dutch dude. But you guys can do the sweet very well.
@@anaidodonata3752go see for yourself schat, we have all the fucking flavors. Nonetheless were we the one shipping and bringing all your spices everywhere. So you should exactly thank us for the privilege you now have of eating so many different flavors
@@anaidodonata3752oh and also would have US never be found
@@anaidodonata3752one traditional dish? are you just as braindead as joe biden?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm kapsalon... So delicious. I'm from Sweden but lived in the Netherlands for 6 years and that was my favourite thing to eat for sure
Kapsalon, kibbeling, frikandel🤤🤤
Man I've never had an apple pie other then a dutch apple pie, but I can't imagine better pancakes or apple pies then we make it. The only thing people know from outside of the Netherlands are Stroopwafels and the fried stuff.
Haha yeah I only knew about stroopwafels before coming here. But yeah...I do love the apple pie (I had one the other day from my favorite place, Winkel 43, in Amsterdam)
I mean... they also know Apple Pie and Oliebollen though (Although they do call them Dougnuts).
The best of these are either fully or at least partially not from the Netherlands (chapsalon goated)
Im glad i come from the netherlands i could never live without frikandellen 😫
Hahaha yes!!
Coming from an American, it sounds like a compliment. I am french. I visited the Netherlans 3 times, and I had nothing to complain about.
And that says a lot...😂
As a White dutch woman I love making surinamese dishes. I grew up on my moms old dutch style meals. When I was 9 I moved to a very multicultural city and got introduced to Surinamese and Mediterranean kitchen and I loved it. When I got married to a Chinese man I learned to cook Chinese food. Allot of dutch woman love to cook and are great at it. For one of the smallest country's we put so much diverse food on the table. We are not without flavor we are very very adventurous when it comes to food.
Dutch people welcome all international kitchens and good cooks.
The donut was brought to America by the Dutch.
Had no idea thanks for sharing
So, thanks to us, Dutch, all American cops nowadays are fat…
Yeah its true, the root of the doughnuts is oliebol. Which is a direct translation. Oliebol is a different beast though.
So was the Apple Pie, which is kinda funny since the Americans claim they invented it.
Many don't know actually that hutspot is Spanish, it was discovered by a little boy at a Spanish military camp, he stole it and let his family eat it. And they learned the recipe
Gives the saying ‘Let’s go Dutch!’ Suddenly a total different direction isn’t?!
Lived in the Netherlands for over a year. They make the best cream cakes.
Glad you showed Roti, it's my favourite dish and I feel like not enough people have tried it.
That you for defending the Netherlands. I do have to say though, we mostly excell in like sweet and savory snacks, full meals we do lack a bit of variety. 🇳🇱
Frikandel 🤤
I always miss things like that and kroket when going on vacation
You go to Spain and stop missing kroket, I assure you. In fact it's a French marvel (Louis de Bechamel).
Love the frikandel hate the kroket
As a Belgium person, I love the bitterballekes and their cheese.
This is spot on. What a summary of eating culture, great job.
I'm glad you also showed the fried food like kroketten and frikadellen 👍.
The fact he ate a broodje hagelslag with knife and fork. Brilliant ❤
You make me feel proud being Dutch❤.
Dutch dishes: *literally mentioning dishes that arrived from other countries*
FRENCH fries. But hey, there are no American fries either, right?
But eating fries with ketchup is BARBARIC, Yanks. Try it with mayonnese - if you can buy it, in America - and have an orgasm.
Indonesia and Suriname were part of their empire
The ingredients are foreign, the dishes are Dutch ;)
Name me one American dish
Every country has it’s flavorful food. Just because you don’t know them doesn’t mean they don’t exist and just because you only like a certain flavor palette doesn’t mean other palettes are bad
Who-ever says that true Dutch cuisine sucks has never had a stampot or snert. I would rather ask why all the famous international cuisines are so obsessed with tomato, dough and/or rice
Anyone who dislikes our fast-food culture has never tasted kaassoufle or kibbeling. Much better than any burger or piece of dough
Also, oliebollen beat churros with ease
And real oliebollen are definitely better than the fake ones with a hole in the middle aka doughnuts
@@user-mp1qq9yg5w Amen to that
Nope, had all of them, lived in NL for 5 years. - Respectfully - the cuisine definitely sucks. My Dutch partner agrees😅
From Germany here (every year on vacation in our dutch Holliday home). The Dutch bread is really bad compared to German, toast is the only ok thing there. The cheese however is indeed really good. Fish is also very nice. Apart from that most of the stuff is just fried. There are good snacks like kibbeling or a bami hap, but I'm always glad to come back home after a few weeks to eat non fried food again.
@@skyminer01 lol im dutch and i never eat fried food, nobody does only the stupid tourists ofc
There's a reason why there are no Dutch restaurants beyond NL.
Perhaps that may change one day? :)
I saw a Dutch restaurant in Oulu, Finland ;) (Lekker 61)
Theres quite a few around. I saw a real snackbar on Venice Beach and I ran into a Dutch traditional restaurant on the mountains of chili. It even served stamppot, but witj sweet potato instead of normal potatoes
I have one near me in germany and they are always one on a market place
There's plenty. Just because you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist. 🤷♂️
Theres a whole continent development forgot. But you dont hear me mocking it.
As a Dutchman myself... 90% of the food tastes like shit but the other 10% is special and you wont find it anywhere else
you forgot the kroket
Funny that a lot of Dutch food is to be discovered and recognised in Dutch still-life paintings of the 15- and 16hundreds !!!!
Kapsalon 😍 Stamppot 😍 bitterballen😍
Dutchman here.... she's right, our cuisine is not something to boast about. South Asian countries will beat us in every corner. That's why we have so many foreign restaurants here.
You can say what you want about Dutch food, especially the stereotypical dinner, its healthy and cery filling, can be made easily for a ton of people and made us the tallest country
I love the oliebollen, they are so simple yet ridiculously tasty!
Bitterballen, erwtensoep en poffertjes are great too,but that's about it 😅
Bro brought my childhood back 😂😂😂 hagelslag straight from the box
Bread + Butter + Meises that's all you need in life
Ik ben nederlands en ik kan zeggen kijk naar alle recepten die de VOC hebben binnengetakelt
Gouda cheese is also very popular, in US they see it as an expensive and exotic cheese 🙈 its featured in many series and films even.
Miss all that good food & try to imitate it wherever I live in the world.
Eet Smakelijk
Fun fact Pancakes do come from China and Nepal originally. but we the Dutch brought them to Europe and spread them all over the world. we used to make them the traditional way as the Chinese and Nepalese do as well. but we changed our own recipe over the years. France for example still make them the original way. hence the reason why they are tinner and called crepes. but yeah we the Netherlands spread the pancake all over the world. and we do make the best pancakes ever.
Thanks for sharing! 🥞
Thanks for sharing! 🥞
Those r pannenkoeken NOT Pancakes A Pan-Cake is from America and thats a whole different story n history. Look it up
@@dezl6056 Did you know pancakes is the literal translation of pannekoeken?
@@jhgylugkfhfhlgfa pannekoek is just verry diffrent then a pancake though.
Everybody's hating untill they try a Kapsalon. The best dutch invention ever made.
"Rijsttafel" is actually Indonesian, not Dutch. But as we are connected with the Indonesian and the culture for centuries, it is a kitchen that is being enjoyed a lot overhere.
No, indonesian and/or most Chinese foods in the Netherlands are called so, but in Indonesia of China the foods are quite different in flavor. So it became Dutch food.
Can people stop assuming dishes that are made in the north are the only national dishes. Every heard of zuurvlees?
This clip has a few flaws.
For starters, Wonderbread is illegal (Thank God!!), we put butter on our slice of bread, and a sandwich is never eaten with knife and fork.
Also bread. Dutch are only second to Germans when it comes to good, proper bread.
Dude u mention them all iam so proud of you 😢
I just tasted every single meal that came by in this short...
Yep, Dutch checked off ✅
sorry the montage didn't change anything compared to other countries :)
Here in friesland its true we cant handle anything spicier than salt
Yep, even Dutch food is effective, efficient and wholesome….
I could really go for a kapsalon right about now... Guess I'm ordering lunch.
The Netherlands have an excellent Indonesian kitchen due to the more then 300.000 Dutch/Mollucans/Indo's who came back from Indonesia last century. Carolina reapers is used in that kitchen, so I dare you to taste the flavor.:D
Did this lady forget that at one point in time, we OWNED the spice trade?
Yet somehow the Netherlands is one of the biggest food exporters.
im dutch and i can confirm, compared to most other countries in the world.... she is right...
To be honest, Tosti, Kapsalon, Frikandel Speciaal and Borrel Hapjes are actually lit af.
People who say that are usually the ones that had their tastebuds burned of by spicy food. If you don’t eat spicy food you can taste the true flavor of things, instead of everything tasting like hot sauce.
Well as a Frisian Dutchy...Shes not completly wrong XD
I have visited my companies factory in the Netherlands several times. They have wonderful Sweets and such, but I could not get past the Horse meat sausages they seemed to serve daily in the cafeteria. so I just held out for McDonalds every night.
i love how surinamese and indonesian is somehow dutch...
Nothing better than having some beers and bitterballen with mustard 😄
That Frikadel in my place is called perkedel.
Don’t forget the pepernoten. With a chocolate layer. Those sre to die for 😋
Amber knows the Netherlands well, including the food. And sure, there are great snacks, great pastries, and great dishes that were appropriated from former colonies. But as for for the rest, this short only proves her right. Stamp/hutspot and pea soup are nice and filling, and they taste like home. I like them. But compared to, say, biryani, tamales, adobo, pizza, a good tagine, or any of a thousand other dishes that the countries they originate from can pride themselves on... it's all B-tier at best, let's be honest.
And that's ok, we will always have stroopwafels ;-)
Haha thanks. Amber is a comedian and also married to a Dutchman and has lived in the Netherlands...so she does know the food...but hey, it's all for fun and something to talk about =) And yes...stroopwafels are amazing!
yeah you havent thought that one through. Were do the tomatos from the pizza come from? Something you call "appropriated".
@@Markuden The history of the pizza is really interesting! There are examples of precursors that date back to the Roman empire, in the ruins of Pompei there was even a finding of a fresco depicting something that looks very much like a pizza.
Tomatoes are just a "recent" iteration. And honestly, "recent", here, means since 1548, I would say that at some point you will have to give people a break and acknowledge that they have made it their own, won't you?
Going back to the Dutch, there are several examples of local delicacies that could never have existed without herbs and spices that are very much not native to the country. I would not call those "appropriation" though. Spices that go in speculaas, for example, are roughly comparable to those used in Indonesian flag cake. But you would never confuse the two! (both are really yummy, by the way :-) )
UgHhH did you just say tamales?!😂 First of all .... No ❤ haha but yeah all are great dude. I wouldn't say appropriate, it was more exploitation for the spices during the VOC era. There's a great book called Curse of the Nutmeg on that.
I mean there's a few items Dutch have that's good but yeah gotta agree with her on this one
This makes me proud🎉
As an indonesian, it baffles me how netherlands has no flavour in spite of them has colonized indonesia for three and half centuries
We value nutrition over flavour, hence we are so large. Also spices where mostly for the rich
Dutch kitchen is actally authentic. America has no kitchen. BBQ is Australian, Hamburgers are German, French fries are Belgian and everything inbetween is from Asia, Arabia or Europe.
Nederlandse is dope asf ❤Gezouten herring...omg...stompotten...dutch gravy meat en veges is like 🤤😋 best thing ever in winter after ice skating and snow fietsen. Dessert waffles en sweet as pankoeken. Delish nederlandse food. Hard to beat.
Stop darmee. Dat klinkt zo smakelijk. Ik krijk vast trek 😅
New herring....so good. Fois gras de la mer!
Nomnomnom
Well the lady she's correct....
Hello from Italy 🇮🇹
Erhm as she said THE LAND THAT FORGOT FLAVOR😂 (as a Dutch I am allowed to say that)😅
Flavour forgot about the dutch cause we owned the fpavour and flavour now is in a emotional state of retraction. /j
Absolutely loved the video ❤❤❤
Considering that the Dutch had a monopoly on the spice trade in the 17th century, to claim that flavour "forgot" the Netherlands is particularly uninformed. Many of our staples show our deep intimacy with spices, from worst to cookies to pies to drinks. Many countries have tried to copy "speculaas" for example, but failed. Gin was invented as a poor-man's substitute for our Jenever. Etc, etc, etc.
Indonesian food originates from Indonesië. Not from the Netherlands.
Patat originates from Belgium
There are so many great international foods in the netherlands. So if you say there's no flavourful food in the Nerherlands your just not looking hard enough
Yeah exactly because they're all from international countries 😅
@@ay.maripoxa ya to be honest international food is better than dutch food
I love dutch food. It has its own charm and I love it ❤
What moves a person to only show the least healthy fast foods available but then mix that with two classics like erwtensoep and herring.
Tbh I like dutch food that actually has effort put into it but I couldn't survive eating only dutch food for more than a week . I am half dutch , half bulgarian and I need myself some rice and some spice !
I am from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 ❤
As a Belgian I'm often in Holland...not specifically for the food 😢
I like stoop waffles! Brought at Walgreens on sale $1
Love it. Only people who stayed in their little bubble their whole life would make such outragious claims.