Saw a map today, on reddit or around here, showing the dominant kind of restaurants across european countries : local food or foreign food. And sure enough, most of northern and Eastern Europe prefers foreign food. Anyone who’s traveled around Europe will have a fairly good idea why.
All I’m saying is, the bit about food doesn’t work for all countries.
Dutch cuisine is so boring and bland, it’s no wonder almost everyone prefers anything foreign. Everything traditional we cook tends to lack flavor and texture, it’s filling but not exactly attractive.
We also don’t really have a food culture here. Dutch people don’t like to spend more time eating than they have to. A meal never lasts more than 20-30 minutes tops.
It’s not exactly surprising that there’s no such thing as a Dutch restaurant outside of the Netherlands…
I for one love (most of) the traditional Norwegian dishes. But I will concede that I’m not expecting to see Lutefisk stalls in the UK anytime soon, (Although they have their own questionable things they do with fish), and I doubt street food buyers in Kuala Lumpur would queue up if Ola went there to sell Pinnekjøtt.
Oh yeah, no hate on the local specialties! I always looked forward going to IKEA as a kid, for the cardamom based pastries and such. But like… I can’t really imagine what a traditional Swedish cuisine restaurant would serve.
Saw a map today, on reddit or around here, showing the dominant kind of restaurants across european countries : local food or foreign food. And sure enough, most of northern and Eastern Europe prefers foreign food. Anyone who’s traveled around Europe will have a fairly good idea why.
All I’m saying is, the bit about food doesn’t work for all countries.
Dutch cuisine is so boring and bland, it’s no wonder almost everyone prefers anything foreign. Everything traditional we cook tends to lack flavor and texture, it’s filling but not exactly attractive.
We also don’t really have a food culture here. Dutch people don’t like to spend more time eating than they have to. A meal never lasts more than 20-30 minutes tops.
It’s not exactly surprising that there’s no such thing as a Dutch restaurant outside of the Netherlands…
There was a really fun Dutch restaurant in Osaka. Besides that I don’t know of any.
agreed. the best Indonesian restaurants I’ve been to were in Amsterdam/Den Haag
From what I know about the dutch, they bake very nice bread at least. We have a lot of Dutch brands of bread over here that are pretty good.
I for one love (most of) the traditional Norwegian dishes. But I will concede that I’m not expecting to see Lutefisk stalls in the UK anytime soon, (Although they have their own questionable things they do with fish), and I doubt street food buyers in Kuala Lumpur would queue up if Ola went there to sell Pinnekjøtt.
Oh yeah, no hate on the local specialties! I always looked forward going to IKEA as a kid, for the cardamom based pastries and such. But like… I can’t really imagine what a traditional Swedish cuisine restaurant would serve.