Food & Drinks

Typical dutch food

● Beschuit met muisjes are crackers with pink/blue and white balls on them called muisjes (mice). Eaten when a baby is born; blue for a boy and pink for a girl.

● Stamppot is a typical winter dish, made of mashed potatoes and vegetables, such as carrots and onions (hutspot), chopped green cabbage (boerenkool) or sauerkraut (zuurkool). Stamppot is eaten with rookworst (smoked sausage) and gravy.

● Erwtensoep (pea soup) is eaten when the weather is cold. It is a tradition to eat it after ice-skating!

● Asperges (asparagus) are a typical spring delicacy. The Dutch like to eat them with ham, eggs and a hollandaise (melted butter).

● Hagelslag is a Dutch product, used abroad only as cake decoration, but the Dutch eat it on sandwiches! They come in many flavors.

● Kroket is a crispy crust that is filled with meat. The Dutch eat it with broodje kroket (bread) or at dinner with french fries.

● Bitterballen are a smaller round version of the kroket, and are usually eaten as a party snack.

● Stroopwafels are two thin waffles with syrup between them that tastes like caramel.

● Haring is eaten raw! On markets and in shopping malls you will find stands selling haring with freshly chopped onions.

● The consumption of dairy products is extremely high, which according to some scientists accounts for the high average height of Dutch men and women!

● Drop (liquorice) comes in a variety of different flavours and genres. There are four primary types of drop: soft & sweet, soft & salty, hard & sweet and hard & salty. The Dutch people eat the most amount of liquorice per capita of any people in the world.

Restaurants

Usefull websites to find restaurants in Eindhoven are: www.thisiseindhoven.com/en/see-and-do/food-and-drinks www.thefork.com/restaurant+eindhoven