Dutch Street food Tour! (First Time in Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Oh my god. Oh that's so good. But it turned out like this. Stop. You gotta pay the seagull tax. We just can't get enough of the Netherlands and we are back for more Dutch food in a new city. This is both of our first times in Rotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands, and the largest seaport in Europe. Let's make our way to the first stop in this Dutch street food tour. All right, so first stop on this street food tour we walk by this stall and there's a called Poms which I think translates to fries because in German it's Pommes. And it's this stall that sells fries Dutch style as well as some other things we'll get to in a minute. Apparently the difference between these Dutch fries and Belgian fries is that these are cut a little thinner. Belgian fries traditionally cut a little thicker. Also they use Dutch potatoes so she says Dutch fries not Belgian fries. Also I love this contraption here to separate it. It's very cool. This is called oorlong sauce, right? Yes. And this is apparently a peanut sauce right here. And then on this other side we have a spicy mayo and then it's topped with onions. So I'm just gonna go in here. Some of the peanut sauce. Oh my god. I think a couple days ago I just told Deanna how I liked peanut sauce on my Asian food back in the day. This brings back memories, man. This tastes so good. It's a very thick sauce. It's pretty dark and it's pretty strong. You don't really taste the onions because the peanut flavor is so strong. The fries are nice as well. They are skin on. They are fried perfectly and they are seasoned a little more than they look. There's a lot of salt on it and overall very nice fries. Very fresh. Let me try the mayo side here. Look at that. Spicy mayo. Wow the sauces are very contradicting. Very different flavor profile. I just love fries, man. It's so good. I'm so hungry behind here. Also so is that giant seagull that's been stalking us. What I also like is you get it in these cones. It makes you feel a little bit more like a child again. It's street food. I love it. Okay, you see that big whopper back there? He is stalking. He is waiting for someone to drop a fry. I don't think I've ever had this peanut sauce before. I think it's one of the specialties we asked them. So I'll just try it with both of it on there. I thought it would be sweeter. It's slightly sweet but pretty savory still. Oh that's nice. Enough about these fries. I'm just gonna set them down here. What we really came here for are bitterballen. These are something I craved. We had in Eindhoven and Amsterdam for the first times and they were so good. We got three different kinds here. We have a cheese, we have the traditional beef, and then we have a shrimp one in here. And I'm not really 100% sure which one is in each one. I'm just gonna rip one apart here for you. Cool. This I think is the classic beef. Yeah, you can see the beef in there. Let's give it a try. Wow. This one is much more herbal than the other ones we've had before. I don't know how to describe it. It tastes like a beef stew in a ball. For me, like a deep fried gravy sauce. Amazing. And then we have this one which, let's see what it is. Open up. It's a different shape. Oh, it looks like the cheese. I think this is the Kass bitterball. I learned from the comments last time, one bitterball, two bitterballen. Because I was calling them all bitterballen. Oh, that's so good. Just fried cheese is my stuff. Very smooth and liquid. A little different than the Kass souffle, but also very kind of similar. Better than the beef one? I don't know about better. Oh, the cheese is so soft, almost fluid. And then I'm guessing this one is the shrimp. Just open it up. Oh, look at that. You see little shrimps in there. See that? No. That's a little brown shrimp. Look at that. Smells interesting. I think shrimp is garnel in Dutch. I'm not sure. Dude, it tastes so similar to like a Chinese dim sum or something. You know, because you get a lot of these like shrimp paste things and dumplings, but this is like with the fried version of it. Wow. Good. Yeah, that's really good. I think this one might be my favorite. Really? Yeah. I like this part. You feed me. Oh, yeah. I expected there to be like one shrimp in like the ball, like a shrimp dumpling or something. But it's this paste still. It's almost like a mix between the cheese and the gravy one and then shrimp flavor as well. Yeah, that's so good. So for the bitterball pack of six was like around six to seven euros. And then this one was also, I think, around five euros for something. So a great price. Thanks for helping us. I don't know what that is in Dutch. If you know, let me know. Do you have a price performance ratio word? But this is a great start. Finishing up our fries and running away from giant seagulls, we make our way to the next stop on this Dutch street food tour, which brings us underground for a sweet treat after those savory and salty snacks. Our next street food stack is something I've been eyeballing for a while. We went to this place called Benicio's Cheat Day and you can choose your things in three easy steps. A nice cheat meal. We started with these poffertjes. Oh, my God. I'm butchering all of this Dutch right now. Poffertjes. Yeah, poffertjes. Poffertjes. They're mini pancakes, but you got to choose toppings. Classic is with powdered sugar and butter, but we loaded Nutella, strawberries and banana on top because it's a cheat day. So we're putting everything on it. The restaurant's called Cheat Day. We're doing that. Yes. So this meal was 14.10 total. The banana and the strawberries each were 2.50, so five euros for the amount of banana and strawberries here. I'm just saying that's a little steep for me. You get two strawberries for 2.50. Yeah, I want to mention that the pricing was a little weird. They said the poffertjes bowl is 6.50 and then mixed fruit 2.50. I'm like, okay, it's going to be like nine. He's like, banana, strawberry. Can I mix it? He's like, yeah, of course you can. But then they cost extra because I think a little bit more than 40 years, that's pretty steep. So if you're Dutch, let us know if we just really overpaid for some poffertjes. Either way, I'm really excited about these pancakes. They're tiny, they're spongy. I think they're butt-weak bake. He had this cool little contraption where he just put the batter in, cooked them in there. Looked a little bit like takoyaki. Yeah, it looks a little bit like that. Oh, first time poffertjes. Let's see your reaction. Excuse me. Now you can see it. They're like just mini pancakes. So what I mean by that is they're just got an extra fry to a normal size pancake, you know? That doesn't sound bad. Like an American style pancake because it puffs up a little more than the German one I'm used to. But you see how it's like nicely fried on all edges then. But by the way, we went down to this harbor area. Check this out. There's something like a... First I thought it's a warship, but it looks... I don't know. It's some ship. What gives us shade is this nice little train thing. Very cool area. This is made for walking through and that's pretty cool. I also never had poffertjes. I think it's my first time. I'm just gonna get some strawberry and banana on one. Oh, look at this one. How nice that looks. Put it in there. Okay. I know what you mean with small pancakes. They literally taste more like the American pancakes than the German ones, right? In small version. It's really nice with these toppings. I think they're pretty good with the toppings. Without it, I don't know. It's okay. Just another fluffy, small pancake thing. Which is my thing. Fluffy, small pancakes are my thing. And I happily finished off this sweet treat. Before our next stop, Phil also wanted a sweet snack, so we popped into a supermarket. I was very impressed with some of the different products. And if you're interested in the extra footage from Rotterdam, we'll post a video on our Patreon page at patreon.com.dnnphil. Now, back to Phil's sweet snack. One thing I had to do, we ran into a little supermarket because the first time we went to the Netherlands, to Amsterdam, we tried this Vla. And if you haven't seen the video, I love this stuff, man. It's so good. It comes in a little Tetra Pak. They also have a bigger one, like two liters or something. And it's just a pretty fluid pudding, I think. Are you supposed to drink it? I know it comes in that container. It's a drinking container, so you're supposed to drink it, right? It feels like it should be on top of ice cream or something or cake. Okay, like in the first video, I tried to waterfall it, right? Oh, see how fluid that is? I can't tell if it's a pudding or if it's a drink, but it's freaking awesome. It's vanilla taste, and I love it, man. It's, oh my god, I love it. It's good. Vla. Miniso is in the Netherlands. They all closed in Germany, but we have this one. Look how cute. Mine. He's already attached to me. It's true. As an American who grew up in the USA, I think this is amazing how bikeable it already was in Germany. And then I think the Netherlands brought it to a whole new level. There's full bike lanes, then you have the train, and then you have the cars. I love how the bikes and the cars are separated, because in Germany, sometimes I get a little stressed riding right beside the car lane. This is like, this is where it needs to go in the future. I feel like this is amazing. Yeah, I think so too. I also think Rotterdam so far has the best-looking McDonald's that I've seen so far. Very glassy buildings, a lot like Apple stores. They're at every metro station. I need to stop with that joke. Common sight at Imbiss stands here in the Netherlands are these huge seagulls on top of it. You gotta pay the seagull tax. This is like the third stall we saw where they're just sitting on, and I think they're just waiting for somebody to drop their fries or walk away. They're massive here. They're huge. It's like, I already made the comment that I think Dutch people are the tallest in the world, I think, on average. They're just eating all the cheese, drinking all the milk, but the seagulls, those are also pretty massive. There's one in comparison. We narrowly escaped the giant fry-thirsty seagulls and continued on the path in our quest for Dutch street food, leading us to a familiar sight. Okay, we can't do a street food video in the Netherlands without going to one of these vending machine places. You see behind me, this is wall of vending machines. However, it's pretty late already, and it's pretty empty, so we're not pulling it out of the vending machine. We're gonna order at the counter. It's like a little torpedo. We just got two things to try quickly. This is a kalflees kroket, meaning a kalbfleisch kroket, a veal kroket. I've got three languages you got there. There's meat in there. It's veal, apparently, and he just got it out of the fryer. It's pretty hot. It looks funny. It's like just this little like sausage thing. What do you mean it looks funny? It looks familiar. It looks familiar. Yeah, it's true. Let me just break it up here. It's so hot. Oh, it's minced up too. Yeah, I think all of these deep fried things are minced up flavors, like the shrimp is minced up, the veal seems to be minced up. Let's see. It's super hot. Oh my god. I think it's super hot. Surprise, it's hot. It's so hot, but again, it tastes awesome. It tastes very much like the bitterballen that we had before, like a thick gravy that is just boiling temperature and then deep fried and very crispy. Listen to this. Wow, ASMR. So I, of course, had to get a cast souffle. It gives me like grilled cheese vibes, like fried cheese is just amazing. So that's every time we come to the Netherlands, I always end up getting one. Let's see this cheese pull. Oh no, it's still very warm to the touch, but I didn't get a good cheese pull. There we go. Okay, it looked horrible last time, but it was amazing. But it tasted really good. It's fried battered cheese. What more could you want? It's amazing. I love it. Honestly, we've had a lot of fried food in general today, so I do feel a little rough, but it's worth it. Tastes so good. I have not reached that limit yet. I can still go, but I will finish this souffle croquette and afterwards I'll eat more fresh stuff. It's pretty hot. By the way, it's very common at these places too that you can get some kind of snack burger. They have a beef burger and a chicken burger, and you can usually also pull these out of the wall. I like the word for chicken in Dutch. Kip, kip, kip, kip. I don't know if that's how you pronounce it, but it sounds so cute. Kip. I want a kip burger. With the fried food getting to our heads, we walk it off the rest of the evening, checking out more of the city, and we start fresh the next morning in desperate need of coffee. So far, Rotterdam does not disappoint. I really like the Dutch food. I really, really like the Dutch vibe here, and if you like these kinds of street food videos in general, please don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel for more food videos every week. For the next stop, we went to this place called Jordi's Bakery, and I have to say the bakeries here look absolutely amazing. That one looked beautiful. The interior is beautiful. The stuff they had, beautiful. They had brownies. They had cookies. They had different types of pastries, and we got a cappuccino, and I don't know if it's the Netherlands that make me feel bigger or this cappuccino definitely feels very small. It's a small cappuccino. Yeah, look how small that is. It's cute. You look like a giant. And they gave this piece of banana bread. Is it banana bread? Yeah, it's banana walnut bread. But there's something in it which looks like meat. I don't know what it is. It came on top of my petite cappuccino. Wow, I will never know. I can't tell what it is. I don't know what the darker part was. Okay. But yeah, that's a Oh, okay. I didn't know if you wanted to open to see it too late. Too late. Very good with oat milk. It's very strong and makes you feel like a giant. We got two things. I'm going to do this one. Phil's going to do the other one. So this is something when I googled Dutch food constantly popped up. It's this. It's a Soosienbroodje. I don't know if I pronounced that right. They have the Y with the two dots. That's very difficult for me to pronounce. So it's this beautiful puff pastry with this sausage inside. It's I believe beef is what they said. I think there are variations all throughout Europe, but I like this puff pastry. Give it a try. The puff pastry melts in your mouth. It's just like flakes that just fall apart. But the meat itself is so soft and so tender and also very like flavorful, very peppery seasoned. They heated this up for us. This is great. Oh, this is surprisingly good. The Soosienbroodje. I think that's how it's pronounced. Man, look at the floor. I know the pigeons are going to come. This puff pastry is so spilling always. Yeah, so messy. It almost tastes like a little meatball. It's minced meat and it's super herbal. But we also asked him what is another very Dutch thing and she said this one. This is just called a Voorstbroodje. And I think it just translates to sausage roll. And you see it's this wiener in there. And I just tried to rip it open, but it turned out like this. Stop. What is that thing? I wish there was some kind of sauce in there with it, but it looks like it's not. Don't pull them out. Leave them in the bun. This feels very wrong. I think you're supposed to eat it with the... It's a cheese sausage. Oh, that is nice. So that is pork. She said that was pork. That is definitely pork. It's pretty juicy because of the cheese in there. And to be honest, I like most pork sausages better if they have the cheese in there than just the regular ones. It's not like a bratwurst. It's more like a wiener, but a very rough one. And I don't know. Also, I like this type of bread slightly better than the pastry, the puff pastry. Okay, don't eat the whole sausage. I would like some of that. So yeah, I think both things were pretty good. Which one would you like better? That cheese in there is so good. They're very different. I wish there was a little bit of like... But I like the meat of this one. I don't think I love how puffy the pastry is, how it pulls apart so much. Tough call, but both are very good. And if you want to feel like a giant... Get a cappuccino. Get a cappuccino. With caffeine in our systems, it's time to go to our last stop on the street food tour. So this next stop is going to be this giant market hall. It's beautiful. It's this nice round building with two glass walls. So there's a lot of light in there. There's a lot of street food. We're gonna go and check it out. Let's go. This market hall was so beautiful. The glass on two sides of the building gave wonderful light and brightness to the epic painting all around. And there were lots of street food options, from East Asian cuisine to Middle Eastern options. There were standard Dutch herring sandwiches as well. Honestly, there were so many options to choose from. And our last meal did not disappoint. So one thing that I noticed about this market hall, it's fairly tight and has a stalls. But they do a good job of offering seating for everybody. They have these little nooks like that in the background. And a lot of these stalls have a second floor with seating on top, which is kind of cool. So you can have a little bit of calm and quiet as well. And it's not just all busy. Very accessible, but yeah, might be a little touristy. For the Americans, they have Dunkin's and they have TGIF. Thank God it's Friday. It's TGIFriday. We say TGIFriday in America. TGIFriday. So we're at this market hall street market. It's just a giant beautiful building. And there's so many international cuisines. I've seen Greek, I've seen Chinese, we've seen Turkish, Italian spices. You can get your cheese here to take away. There are supermarkets in there. So a lot of different things, something for everybody, it seems like. Yeah. And Indonesian food as well. And today we are at this place called the Satay Lounge, and we decided to get Kip Satay, which is chicken satay skewers. Come in this little boat. We've got the peanut with spicy sauce on it. Yeah, peanut sauce. Also very common in the Netherlands, I noticed again. There we go. Let's try it. Dude, really brings me back this peanut sauce. Yeah. I really like the peanut sauce. Ooh, the spiciness comes in at the end a little bit. At first I was like, it's not too spicy, but then it's there. Yeah. I guess the Dutch palette, spice-wise might be comparable to the German one. For the three pieces here with the baguette, it was 8.50 euros. These types of skewers you'll find all through Southeast Asia too. When we're in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, we always find these skewers and I love it. It's one of my favorite street food snacks. Just meat on a stick. So good. She likes a good meat steak. So it comes with a lot of sauce. If your sticks are gone, you'll be left with a shit ton of sauce. So that's what the bread comes into play. I guess you just dip it up like that. Oh, look at that amount of peanut sauce on that. Works well too. White bread with any kind of sauce. It's pretty good. Very satisfying. All right. So that was our street food tour here from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. We're going to head a little South for next week's video on Friday. And I think this was a very nice experience. I just really liked the Netherlands and I liked the food as well. Yeah, me too. Let us know what you would eat if you were here or what we should try next. As always, thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. Bye. I think their Metro signs here look like McDonald's. Look at that. The golden arches. I'm the only one laughing.