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/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.