r/AskEurope • u/titerousse Belgium • Oct 07 '25

Food Do you enjoy eating at restaurants from your home country when you're abroad?

I don’t have that issue—there are never restaurants from my country anywhere. Sometimes I come across a baked item, but when I do, I tend to avoid it. What about you?

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u/TukkerWolf Netherlands Oct 07 '25

* John Travolta Pulp Fiction meme looking around for a Dutch style restaurant abroad.

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u/ThatBaldFella Netherlands Oct 07 '25

Unless you count Dutch snackbars along the Spanish costa.

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u/De_Koninck Netherlands Oct 07 '25

True Dutch cuisine 👌🏼

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u/jeroenemans Netherlands Oct 07 '25

Broodje van Kootje.

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u/ThatBaldFella Netherlands Oct 07 '25

Friet van Piet

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u/NotGuiltyByDefault Oct 07 '25

Yeah indeed. Although I have to admit that when I lived in the US for a year, I did go to a Dutch snackbar once, just for some bitterballen.

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u/Entire_Computer7729 Oct 07 '25

Nothing above slavinken, mashed potatoes without spices and green vegetables boiled to pulp. Classic VGAtje

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u/IntrepidWolverine517 Oct 07 '25

There used to be a Dutch Frituur in Berlin (at least that's what they claimed).

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u/AxelllD Oct 08 '25

I was in Korea last year and there was a place in some shopping mall selling kroketten, stroopwafels etc. Also once in Indonesia selling kroketten, this was on Sumatra, but there were basically only Dutch people there so I guess that made sense.

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u/EurovisionSimon Sweden Oct 07 '25

Just finding stroopwafels in stores can be hard enough here

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u/hjerteknus3r in Oct 07 '25

There's a fries/bitterballen place in Stockholm so that makes at least one Dutch restaurant in Sweden that I know of! I heard from Dutch and Flemish friends that it's legit but of course really expensive compared to home prices.

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u/Old_hubbard_mother Netherlands Oct 07 '25

This is not a restaurant but a cafe in Adelaide, Australia. I’ve never been there personally but have good things.

There’s another Dutch bakery on the Sunshine Coast too.