I'm from a little city in Belgium named Hasselt, we are know for our Jenever aka Gin and Speculoos, speculoos you could discribe it as a hard gingerbread cookie.
Hi there, I'm born in Bruges... a little secret to share ; the bistros at Grand Place (where you ate that stew) aren't bad, but the better ones are hidden in the smaller streets (and they are usually cheaper as well). A fun fact about the small apetizers you get when ordering beer ; I've read that they do that to follow an old law that could be used by people not wanting to pay. You see, there seems to be an old law that stipulates when serving alcoholic beverages you need to serve something hearty to prevent intoxication. When serving alcohol without something else you could give people a legal reason not to pay for your drinks. It was in the news about a year ago when a lawyer used that law in the defence a table skimmer .
Love the new intro!! Be careful on your search cause do remember that they were no longer the knights who say Ni, they are now The Knights Who Say Ecky-Ecky-Ecky-Ecky-Pikang-Zoom-Boing-Gumzowehzeh' (Ni!)
@davkaufmaneatstheworld i lived Belgium for 6 months, I'm from italy, I know good food and Belgium impressed me. Vol au vent is actually very easy to make at home yourself, when I discovered this dish in Belgium, I did some research and now I make it atleast once a month at home myself from scratch, it's easy, you can make it from scratch in less than 40 min. The only thing you need to buy pre-made if you want to save time is the little puff pastry, you can find this at any supermarket or bakery in Europe
Hey Dav! Years ago (before the pandemic) me and my family met you in Houten at a reptile convention. Nice you do something new now, welcome in Belgium!
I live near Bruges and it saddens me to say you litterally went to all the tourist traps... The outside restaurants at the market square, the waffles in the alley to the Burg (the little square where you sat). The only thing I would ever buy are the beignets (which are called oliebollen btw). Fun fact: a lot of the medieval looking houses in Ghent are not very old but were built quite recently to make the city look more medieval :D
Man, Dave! I didn't know you had a food channel. Seems we share both reptiles and food/travel as passions. Such great content! Belgium is on my list for next year! Keep it up!
wow, what an incredible video! I loved every second of this, thanks for bringing us along. I know it can be awkward filming especially in public, but we appreciate it so much. Also. I really liked the new intro. Everything looked so delicious too. Man, I wish I could travel to these places, this is the closest I'll ever get.
I'm glad you like the new intro! And I don't mind vlogging in public because every time I do it when I'm done someone comes up and asks me what my channel is and I get new subscribers :)
Many years ago ( ok, decades ) ago when I had just graduated from college and moved to Iowa City, we ate a LOT of rabbit. In the local stores it was about the same $$ chicken - but much more flavorful. Now it is "special" too bad, makes lovely stews !
i want to bakery school in Bruges for 2years and 3 in Brussels with specialization on chocolat, have not use the skills in 10years but i am so glad i did it
The final war between the young United States and Great Britain was known as the War of 1812. Have you gone to Denmark? The country is small; but, it has some good food. At least, it did when I lived there.
Exactly! And no I haven't made it to Denmark yet but I will
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I like some lil things in the northern side of my country but Belgium is not only the North side, a country three regions / three communities (different with regions ... yes I know it is complicated ^^) but lots of yummy things all over our little country :)
Looks amazing in Belgium. Wouldn't mind trying the waffles. That looked yummy! I think you'll enjoy some of the South African beers as well. We do good draughts. 🍻
New intro is nice. Love the canoe joke. Wish rabbit was more available in US, it's a good source of delish meat. It's a lean meat so best in a stew. The buildings are stunning. Your French is not....ha, ha. Hi from rainy Oregon.
@@davkaufmaneatstheworld The one thing we are good at is poking fun at ourselves. Come to chesterfield and i'll take you to taco bell and dunkin' doghnuts. What's more i'll do it with a smile and if you jump on the back of my wheelchair we can go off roading at high speed. who needs skagways or rollerblades anyway LOL.
We are now no longer the knights who say ni. We are now the knights who say ekky ekky ekky ka-pang zoom boing mnowe All of the food and drinks looked so good
@davkaufmaneatstheworld I actually have an aunt from Belgium. She told me how nice it is there and it's been on my list of places to visit for a while. Now you just gave me even more incentive to go.
As a beer lover I am so jealous of this trip! What's with all the Belgians complaining in the comment section? Is everyone in belgium depressed or just entitled?
@@davkaufmaneatstheworld that's quite normal in Belgium and especialy in touristic areas. We have three official languages of which Dutch ( flemish) and French ( Walonian) are the biggest, German is just a small area that came to us after WWII.
Why didn't i know you were here... Damnit. Btw, the ONLY real chocolate is the pure dark one, don't care what anybody else says!!!! Also, next time make sure to try vol-au-vent, 'mosselen' and 'paling in het groen' You're welcome :p
In bruges we al speak flemish not france so what she does is just making a joke out of all people who live here as a citizen of bruges i get a bit frustrated becouse france is spoken on the other half of my country so i dont know why she does that but the whole thing make some people who live in that city like me and others a little mad 😅
She is French, and willing and perfectly talk English and Dutch. That for me is 100% props to her and her hubby. Many people won’t even try nor be able to try that. 🙌🏻
A couple of remarks to make here. 1. Why the attempts to pronounce the French names of the food? You are in a Flemish speaking region there. 2. Origen of frites? Heavily debated indeed, but as historical research stands now most probably frites were brought to what is now Belgium from Paris. By the way, I am Belgian. Regards
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Belgium is not only Flemish and for fries I do not care about real origin we have yummy ones everywhere :)
Sure, Belgium is not only Flemish, but the cities of Ghent and Bruges are. I clearly wrote "Flemish speaking region". I never said Belgium was Flemish. Un peu dur de comprenure?
@@bennygeypens Atleast he is trying to speak another language knowing almost nothing about the vocabulary and how to pronounce things, 70% of the “French “ speaking people just refuse to try and speak Flemish even though they live in the same country . 🤷♀️ So I think you’re being very very very butt hurt😂
As a flemish person it's quite a humiliation to pronounce the dishes in French. Sad that you didn't have a flemish friend to make this video with. Btw European city trip rule number 1: never eat at the most tourist restaurant in the typical most viewed places to see in that certain city.
Atleast he is trying to speak another language knowing almost nothing about the vocabulary and how to pronounce things, 70% of the “French “ speaking people just refuse to try and speak Flemish even though they live in the same country . 🤷♀️ So I think you’re being very very very butt hurt😂
I'm from a little city in Belgium named Hasselt, we are know for our Jenever aka Gin and Speculoos, speculoos you could discribe it as a hard gingerbread cookie.
That sounds nice. I'll have to visit there next time I'm in Belgium
Hi there, I'm born in Bruges... a little secret to share ; the bistros at Grand Place (where you ate that stew) aren't bad, but the better ones are hidden in the smaller streets (and they are usually cheaper as well). A fun fact about the small apetizers you get when ordering beer ; I've read that they do that to follow an old law that could be used by people not wanting to pay. You see, there seems to be an old law that stipulates when serving alcoholic beverages you need to serve something hearty to prevent intoxication. When serving alcohol without something else you could give people a legal reason not to pay for your drinks. It was in the news about a year ago when a lawyer used that law in the defence a table skimmer .
That's really interesting! Thanks for the info! I'll film a follow up next time I'm in town about the "Hidden" places in Bruges :)
That's why I allways get cheese and stuff in Brussels lol (with my heavy beeer)
Thank God I'm belgian
Thanks God I'm Croatian living in Belgium..heum Vlaanderen 😄
Love the new intro!!
Be careful on your search cause do remember that they were no longer the knights who say Ni, they are now The Knights Who Say Ecky-Ecky-Ecky-Ecky-Pikang-Zoom-Boing-Gumzowehzeh' (Ni!)
Ah yes! Now let me go back and face the peril.
My grand father had a few ferrets that we captured rabbits with , quite good with my grandmother’s home grown vegetables .
Belgian food is very underrated, one of my favorite food countries. One of my favorite Belgian dishes is vol au vent
I agree and I'll have to try that next time
@davkaufmaneatstheworld i lived Belgium for 6 months, I'm from italy, I know good food and Belgium impressed me. Vol au vent is actually very easy to make at home yourself, when I discovered this dish in Belgium, I did some research and now I make it atleast once a month at home myself from scratch, it's easy, you can make it from scratch in less than 40 min. The only thing you need to buy pre-made if you want to save time is the little puff pastry, you can find this at any supermarket or bakery in Europe
@@Oobe Yeah, in short our food is French cuisine with German portions.
Well, thank you very much - enjoyed this!
Really glad to hear that!
Hey Dav! Years ago (before the pandemic) me and my family met you in Houten at a reptile convention. Nice you do something new now, welcome in Belgium!
It was good meeting you there. And yes this is my new channel I hope you enjoy it
@davkaufmaneatstheworld very much, i like food and i like watching it. 😅
Glad you took Brugge and Gent as best places in Belgium instead of Antwerpen and Brussel... Proud to be Belgian from Ieper, West-Vlaanderen... 🤔🧐👍🔥
I love Antwerpen but these two cities are my favorites
I live near Bruges and it saddens me to say you litterally went to all the tourist traps... The outside restaurants at the market square, the waffles in the alley to the Burg (the little square where you sat). The only thing I would ever buy are the beignets (which are called oliebollen btw). Fun fact: a lot of the medieval looking houses in Ghent are not very old but were built quite recently to make the city look more medieval :D
Interesting
Looks really good
driving from Brugge to Gent via Kortrijk? that is special ;-)
Atleast we got our food and beers right here in Belgium
That you do!
Man, Dave! I didn't know you had a food channel. Seems we share both reptiles and food/travel as passions. Such great content! Belgium is on my list for next year! Keep it up!
I hope you make it there! And yes this is a new channel it's only a year old. Glad you found it
Awesome sauce, fantastic vlog today and wow those building are stunning. Have an amazing Sunday dāv
Thanks Clistia! You too!
wow, what an incredible video! I loved every second of this, thanks for bringing us along. I know it can be awkward filming especially in public, but we appreciate it so much. Also. I really liked the new intro. Everything looked so delicious too. Man, I wish I could travel to these places, this is the closest I'll ever get.
I'm glad you like the new intro! And I don't mind vlogging in public because every time I do it when I'm done someone comes up and asks me what my channel is and I get new subscribers :)
My father's side of my family is of Belgian ancestry, so I find this video quite intriguing.
I'm glad you enjoyed it
Foood in belgium it is Amazing !
Many years ago ( ok, decades ) ago when I had just graduated from college and moved to Iowa City, we ate a LOT of rabbit. In the local stores it was about the same $$ chicken - but much more flavorful. Now it is "special" too bad, makes lovely stews !
Right?
Heyyy my favorite reptileman!!!! :-) Welcome to our country!!! Is this a new channel?? Love it!!! Rattle... euh,.. i mean... Eat on!! :-))
Yes! Just about a year old
Dude I loved this video, and I get to vicariously enjoy beer and cheese through your experiences!
Excellent new intro too!!
You'd love it over there
Looks amazing! There were pralines and you missed them! 😂 That beer looked amazing!
Well I have to save something for next time
The new intro is professionally made and makes the channel feel like it deserves to be on Food Network
Thank you for saying that! That actually means quite a bit to me to hear that :)
This is hilarious, I know literally know everyplace you went!
Welcome to Belgium! (Again.)
That's awesome! Belgium is my favorite country in Europe for sure
Great video, I love Belgium too. ❤
Thanks!
Please do a video eating lutefisk!
I did at the Minnesota State Fair. I'm not in any rush to try it again lol
i want to bakery school in Bruges for 2years and 3 in Brussels with specialization on chocolat, have not use the skills in 10years but i am so glad i did it
That sounds great!
Got me homesick this video ! thanks for getting the 'belgian' fries thing straight :)
Of course :)
Proud belgan guy born and raised in Gent
Loved it there!
Love the new intro!
Really glad to hear that!
The final war between the young United States and Great Britain was known as the War of 1812.
Have you gone to Denmark? The country is small; but, it has some good food. At least, it did when I lived there.
Exactly! And no I haven't made it to Denmark yet but I will
I like some lil things in the northern side of my country but Belgium is not only the North side, a country three regions / three communities (different with regions ... yes I know it is complicated ^^) but lots of yummy things all over our little country :)
NICE WORK ! GO TO GREECE !
I will soon hopefully!
i highly recommend you to try steppegras while in Belgium
I'll put that on my list
Looks amazing in Belgium. Wouldn't mind trying the waffles. That looked yummy! I think you'll enjoy some of the South African beers as well. We do good draughts. 🍻
Can't wait to try it all when I'm down there next spring
Komt naar Vlaanderen met een Waalse.. Anyways, nice video!
Grappige , want ge zijd zelf ne waal.
@@kevintremerie3976 heerlijk toch ? als je een waal en vlaming bent
Ja da vond ik ook maar spijtig, want een inboorling zou meer info hebben gegeven en een heel pak beter engels gesproken.
@@kevintremerie3976 lmao
@@charlemichelleke bot
The TV sausage are the never give in any bar. Maby 1 bar in the city. Make sure you have it right
New intro is nice. Love the canoe joke. Wish rabbit was more available in US, it's a good source of delish meat. It's a lean meat so best in a stew. The buildings are stunning. Your French is not....ha, ha. Hi from rainy Oregon.
I'm glad you like the new intro! And yes my French needs a lot of work lol
You really should have dipped those sausages in the mustard. Which was probably made in Ghent.
I did but not on video
I want to try their beer!
It literally is the best in the world
LOL. Brilliantly boring with very few native reptiles. That's us. Great video Dav.
Lol. I meant the reputation of the food but I'll make it there one day to find out :)
@@davkaufmaneatstheworld The one thing we are good at is poking fun at ourselves. Come to chesterfield and i'll take you to taco bell and dunkin' doghnuts. What's more i'll do it with a smile and if you jump on the back of my wheelchair we can go off roading at high speed. who needs skagways or rollerblades anyway LOL.
We are now no longer the knights who say ni. We are now the knights who say ekky ekky ekky ka-pang zoom boing mnowe
All of the food and drinks looked so good
Now chop down the tallest tree with this herring! Glad you enjoyed!
@davkaufmaneatstheworld I actually have an aunt from Belgium. She told me how nice it is there and it's been on my list of places to visit for a while. Now you just gave me even more incentive to go.
As a beer lover I am so jealous of this trip! What's with all the Belgians complaining in the comment section? Is everyone in belgium depressed or just entitled?
Don't know. It's a little surprising through tbh
I live in Ghent. I've never seen TV sausages offered in my life, what the hell. XD
yeah, I would say it's way more common to get cheese cubes and salami cubes as an apetiser.
Got fries?
Man, those two stews look amazing!
I got the joke
#EatthePlanet
#RattleOn
I knew you would :)
you have to put the sausage and cheese in mustard
Nice but in Brugge they speak Dutch not French. So you ate konijn and stoofvlees.
I heard a fix of both but all the menus I saw were in French. Some had both Dutch English and French
I know, but the people who live their speak Dutch. I'm living there by the way.
@@davkaufmaneatstheworld that's quite normal in Belgium and especialy in touristic areas. We have three official languages of which Dutch ( flemish) and French ( Walonian) are the biggest, German is just a small area that came to us after WWII.
@@Zerodess Walonian is not french, it's a dead tong
Beef stew with fries please
It was so good!
My great uncle was a fish monger
Hot chocolate bars in Belgium are ... almost non existing 😂
We call in sole
not goeda but Gouda you say it like how da
NEE!!!
TV sausages = meat peanuts
Dave......the real carbonades flamandes is pork.
Not beef
No there are not pork. It's beef.
I'll have to try it with pork next time
No it's not@@pvdppvdp6638
Jealous I am!!
Have you ever been over there?
Why didn't i know you were here... Damnit. Btw, the ONLY real chocolate is the pure dark one, don't care what anybody else says!!!! Also, next time make sure to try vol-au-vent, 'mosselen' and 'paling in het groen' You're welcome :p
Thanks for the suggestion I'll try those
The French invented felatio.
We are no longer the knights who say ni 😂
Lol! So glad people knew what I was talking about
@davkaufmaneatstheworld Yeah! My cousin, sister, and I quote that movie all the time 😂
Däv you will need years until you drank thru all the Belgium Beers 😂
That's true. I better get started
Try a lifetime XD
Useless, because almost every month a new beer is released. He will never catch up.
In bruges we al speak flemish not france so what she does is just making a joke out of all people who live here as a citizen of bruges i get a bit frustrated becouse france is spoken on the other half of my country so i dont know why she does that but the whole thing make some people who live in that city like me and others a little mad 😅
She is French, and willing and perfectly talk English and Dutch. That for me is 100% props to her and her hubby.
Many people won’t even try nor be able to try that. 🙌🏻
In bruges we don't speak French
A couple of remarks to make here.
1. Why the attempts to pronounce the French names of the food? You are in a Flemish speaking region there.
2. Origen of frites? Heavily debated indeed, but as historical research stands now most probably frites were brought to what is now Belgium from Paris.
By the way, I am Belgian.
Regards
Belgium is not only Flemish and for fries I do not care about real origin we have yummy ones everywhere :)
Sure, Belgium is not only Flemish, but the cities of Ghent and Bruges are.
I clearly wrote "Flemish speaking region". I never said Belgium was Flemish. Un peu dur de comprenure?
the fries are pure Belgian, the original fry was actually fish, cut like how we now our fries now and then ofcours fried.
@@Zerodess Sorry, but that story has been debunked by thorough historical research.
@@bennygeypens Atleast he is trying to speak another language knowing almost nothing about the vocabulary and how to pronounce things, 70% of the “French “ speaking people just refuse to try and speak Flemish even though they live in the same country . 🤷♀️
So I think you’re being very very very butt hurt😂
As a flemish person it's quite a humiliation to pronounce the dishes in French. Sad that you didn't have a flemish friend to make this video with. Btw European city trip rule number 1: never eat at the most tourist restaurant in the typical most viewed places to see in that certain city.
Atleast he is trying to speak another language knowing almost nothing about the vocabulary and how to pronounce things, 70% of the “French “ speaking people just refuse to try and speak Flemish even though they live in the same country . 🤷♀️
So I think you’re being very very very butt hurt😂
Don't take your case as a generality, not all Flemish people feel humiliated by having to deal with French speakers.
You must retire here with a shrubbery or else you will never pass through this word
I'm so glad somebody knew what I was talking about lol
@davkaufmaneatstheworld it took a while to decide which quote to use