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@L17_8

8 ай бұрын

Jesus loves you ❤️ please turn to him and repent before it's too late. The end times described in the Bible are already happening in the world.

@Bralo20

8 ай бұрын

@@L17_8 It doesn't exist mate, wake up. Religion is manmade. And why worship your god thingy while there are thousands of others? So please keep the religious bullshit out of here. It's about food, not about made up stories.

@Bralo20

8 ай бұрын

A plain Brussels Waffle, some powdered sugar and some fresh whipped cream. That's all it needs 🙂

@brentperry3669

8 ай бұрын

Kinda prefer Liege style. But as a fat man, I will devour both!

@markschattefor6997

8 ай бұрын

@@L17_8 Please leave sane people alone.

Welcome in Belgium. As a Belgian, I never ate or saw a waffle with beef tartare in Belgium. Its a tourist trap 😅

@Bralo20

8 ай бұрын

Same... I never ever saw a place that sold waffles with beef tartare (and from the looks of it, I doubt it was even beef, I guess they used pork tartare instead). 😂 So a waffle with beef, pork, fish or whatever is NOT Belgian food 🤣

@DeanaandPhil

8 ай бұрын

haha it definitely tasted like mayo!

@flitsertheo

8 ай бұрын

12€ for that tourist trap.

@Bralo20

8 ай бұрын

@@DeanaandPhil And a true "tartare" doesn't have mayo mixed in it (although more and more will serve it premade). A decent restaurant will make the tartare as follows: handcut (with a knife!) steak (not minced or grinded), an egg yoke on top of it in a half shell. And to add to your own taste: mustard, Worchestershire sauce, capers, sjalot, you might also get mayo, ketchup and Tabasco and the sjalot might be substituted for regular onion (cheaper)). But again: made for tourists, we would never eat this contraption 🤣

@meursaultscourtroom8886

8 ай бұрын

A Belgian lady in NYC city had a waffle stand and the moment I ordered a plain liege waffle her answer was "you've been to Belgium. 😊

The chicken waterzooi was basically a vol-au-vent and you can usually choose to eat it with fries or mashed potatoes. There is an actual dish called Gentse Waterzooi but it looks nothing like what they gave you. As for the savory waffle... As a Belgian I have never seen or eaten one of those! Other cities worth a visit are Bruges, Gent & Antwerp. Hope you had fun in my little old country! 👍

@eveliendegraeve891

7 ай бұрын

Considering that the vol-au-vent was the next dish on the menu, is it possible that the Ober misstook the order because that doesn't look like waterzooi

@targaryenbatman5728

7 ай бұрын

Brugge!!!

@Astrodicted

7 ай бұрын

Eigenlijk grappig hoe niemand, ooit, onze mooie ardennen vernoemd

@targaryenbatman5728

7 ай бұрын

@@Astrodicted true story, spa en durby zijn zeker de trip waard voor toeristen

@GuntherSDoumson2178

7 ай бұрын

Juist, dat was vuil-e-vent

Welcome to Belgium :-) Unfortunately it seems that the last restaurant was a tourist trap. That "waterzooi" wasn't really a waterzooi, it looks like they sold you '"vol au vent" for waterzooi. Waterzooi is more like a soup while vol au vent is like what you got. The are almost the same but not exactly (in waterzooi you'll find potatoes and carrots for example and no mushrooms). The portion of mussels you got seems extremely small, a normal portion should be at least 1,1kg (preferably 1,2 to 1,3kg). And yes, we Belgians mostly eat fries with our mussels, it goes great together. Normally you get also a mussels sauce (mustard, vinegar, pepper, salt, water and some cooking juice of the mussels. Most pre-made mussel sauces will be mayonaise based with the addition of extra mustard and vinegar to make it into a more dressing like consistency). Another give away that it was a tourist trap: the prices are way to low. While tourist traps can serve decent or OK food, normal restaurants will give you higher quality food. Like the mussels for example, you got from the looks of it the "extra" mussel, which is the smallest (and cheapest) mussel available. A self respecting restaurant would never serve anything below the "jumbo" mussel (mussels are graded from big to small: 1) Goudmerk 2) Jumbo 3) Imperial 4) Super 5) Extra). I'm happy that you loved the food but unfortunately you got conned by a tourist trap :-) And Belgians in don't eat hearty waffles, those are solely for tourists. We love our waffles plain or with some sweet toppings at most (like whipped cream for example). Go inside of any restaurant, brasserie (tavern) or coffee house and you won't see it on the menu. Anyway, if you ever get back here, give a yell and I'll take you to some places where they offer decent Belgian food (my treat!).

@flitsertheo

8 ай бұрын

The Flemish name for Vol-Au-Vent would be "Koninginnehapje" (queen's little snack) but it is not that often used.

@DeanaandPhil

8 ай бұрын

We ordered the waterzooi on the menu, but it definitely didn't look like the images we saw online. We were expecting a stew! The waterzooi you're talking about sounds like something we would enjoy!

@Bralo20

8 ай бұрын

@@DeanaandPhil Both "vol au vent" and "waterzooi" are basically some sort of stew. They both use "soup chicken" (chickens that are basically older and need some time to get tender). In both you boil the chicken to be tender and both have vegetables in it. The waterzooi is basically the soup and the chicken with some veggies and potatoes. For the vol au vent the veggies are removed, the soup is thickened by a roux, you can add some lemon juice to add acidity, then you'll basically add little meatballs and mushrooms and you have a vol au vent. It's a think stew like consistency while the waterzooi is more a soup (although I think it can be thickened also a tiny bit). True waterzooi is also more a seasonal dish served during fall & winter while vol au vent is eaten all year long and is readily available in the "industrial" market. I'm not saying that you got industrial vol au vent but chances are quite high. Nothing wrong with an industrial vol au vent, there are quite some good ones, but it's not something you expect in a decent restaurant. The best chance to taste a true waterzooi is during fall and winter in the Ghent area (the Ghent area is known for it's waterzooi) and not in restaurants that attract tourists. I'm ashamed to say this because we, Belgians, love our food, but just like in any other country restaurants will prey on tourists since they don't know better. And in Brussels most of the restaurants/brasseries/taverns cater to tourists, they want to make quick money as cheaply as possible. By serving "industrial" food (= premade, bought, not made inhouse) restaurants can get a quick turnaround and make the most out of your meal, even though it seems cheap. Your 20 EUR (or something) waterzooi, was probably a 1,5 EUR (a portion) industrial made vol au vent. We, Belgians, will mostly avoid those places unless it's for a quick cheap bite (as an alternative to going to a McDo or something). The best way not to be scammed is to avoid virtually all restaurants around the "Grand Place" (Grote Markt) in Brussels and in famous area's like the butcher's alley, etc... The sole exception to that is the Brussels Hard Rock café which is virtually on the "Grand Place", that serves decent enough food and doesn't cost you an arm and a leg, but then you have a Hard Rock in Cologne also so that's not really a valid reason to come to Belgium 😂 Other cities like Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Namur, Liége, Oostend, etc... have plenty of tourist traps also but in Brussels it's really hard to avoid to be honest, certainly where tourists flock. So my sincere apologies that you've been scammed. Better next time! Oh and by the way, a fun fact, The Stella Artois you drank in Brussels is a true, Belgian one. But the once you drank in the UK or the US aren't even brewed in Belgium, they are brewed in the UK, the US and many. other countries around the world. Stella Artois might be a decent "premium" brand name but also that is a scam, unless you drink a Stella in Belgium or neighbouring countries you get a knock-off brewed somewhere else. And in the case of the UK/US versions the alcohol percentage is also lower than the real deal. Yes, we, Belgians, do scam on a global scale 🤣🤦

@flitsertheo

8 ай бұрын

@@DeanaandPhil As many posters stated what you got is "vol-au-vent" or "Koninginnehapje" in Flemish. A cheap classic often on school and office restaurant menus, usually served with fries. In Belgian restaurants it's often served as a children's dish.

@Dutchbelg3

8 ай бұрын

@@flitsertheo Deana and Phil visited all the very touristic places where prices are high and quality is low. Brussels has it pockets of authenticity but you have to know where to go. If you are a tourist go to Antwerp, Ghent or any smaller city but not to Brussels or Bruges... These cities are overrun with tourists. The reason they got served vol-au-vent is because these are easy premade dishes that are warm all hours of the day. The pastry is not even warmed at order.. just a cheap cold pastry from a bulk pack some mass produced ragout on top and that's it. A dish of a minute work. I would not trust these "real Belgium cuisine" places. They are only visited once by tourists. All these places in the Rue des Bouchers / Beenhouwersstraat are run by foreigners.

Pro tip from a Brusseleir: Use a mussel shell (like a clamp) to fish out and eat your mussels. Also, do not eat the ones that didn't open up. They were dead before being cooked. And Stella Artois is the best Belgian beer... if you're not in Belgium 🙂

@Mdgd63

7 ай бұрын

Stella is like Heineken in NL. Very overrated and a nothing special. Take a Orval, Westmalle or Westvleteren. Much better!

@KennskiLad

7 ай бұрын

Also stella is a lager the other ones are tripple so, its not ez to compare those ones

@KennskiLad

7 ай бұрын

And never call stella like heineken please also not comparable 😂

@Mdgd63

7 ай бұрын

@@KennskiLad I have lived in the south of NL ('82-'88) and Stella was a cheap beer (for student parties) like H......n😆. So that is my logic behind my comment. Of course the other brands are not pilsner. But because you can spend your money only ones: buy a good Orval. Much better taste so more to enjoy!

@KennskiLad

7 ай бұрын

Your right about that one , orval , duvel , westmalle are better bears :))

I was always taught to remove the first mussel meat then use the empty shell as 'pinchers' to remove the remaining mussel meat. Those frites looked awesome! Safe Travels D&P.

@saskiapanter

8 ай бұрын

Me too, works like a charm. Mnomnomnomnom I love mussels, the r is in the month now, so mussel season has started😊

@toscspliff112

7 ай бұрын

true

@danytalloen

5 ай бұрын

Indeed, that's the only "correct" way to eat mussels.

You guys should deffinitely visit Bruges. We call it "Venice of the North". The complete city center has in its entirety been declared Unesco world heritage. ♥

@CookingWithCows

8 ай бұрын

It's also featuring in the Witcher as Brügge

@meursaultscourtroom8886

8 ай бұрын

If you are looking for storybook Europe you can do no better then Bruges.

@MichielGroenewegen

8 ай бұрын

Is Amsterdam not the Venice of the north?

@ellesbutzelaar3663

8 ай бұрын

I always thought Giethoorn was the Venice of the north

@DavroarTV

8 ай бұрын

"15 Cities Known as the 'Venice of the North'"

I recently ate mussels with thick fries and steamed the mussels in Belgian beer. Man, it was so good when I think about it I still taste it. Our southern neighbours have great taste and great dishes. Greetings from The Netherlands

@Yuro_Writes

6 ай бұрын

greetings back from belgium

@Bebefire_

5 ай бұрын

Love from your southern neighbours!

Come down to Liège, you will enjoy boulets à la liégeoise (meatballs), sugar waffles (the best are sold at a bakery in the steet perpendiculaire to Liège Guillemins station) and if you venture in the City centre, je sure to visit the passage Lemmonier between rue cathédrale and rue pont d'Ile, they have a spéculoos and marzipan shop. There are also more typical restaurants in the city centre but you will find yourself in the tram construction works 😅 All in all there's a lot a lovely things to try, just 1h away from Brussels if you're still in Belgium that is ...😊

@pinkhope84

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the Tipps

@ShaYa21

8 ай бұрын

Sure, happy to share. 😊

I lived in Brussels for 9 years. Loved every minute. Plus the food, mussels, pizza, frites, everything was fabulous!

Glad to see you guys enjoy Brussels! Little correction, you didn't had 'Waterzooi' in that restaurant, Waterzooi contains boiled potatoes and more vegetables as in a rich stew, the chicken dish you've had is called Bouchée à la reine (FR) or Koninginnehapje (Dutch) and it comes with a that multi-layered pastery like you've guys had... TBH since growing up here, I think the last time I've had a waffle is like 25 years ago, it's not really that in our culture no more as most tourists think... Try some Carbonade (FR), Stoofvlees (Dutch) while here! And drink a Duvel! :p

@wanneske1969

7 ай бұрын

Koninginnehapje = vol au vent

I had my first visit to Brussels last Christmas and it was magical! The Grand Place put on a music/light show starting at 5 p.m. I had chicken vol au vent that looked like your chicken dish. It was VERY good. My favorite waffle is the liege waffle. It's thinner with a caramel-y middle. I also had Flemish beef stew (stoofvlies or carbonnade a la flamande) that was so rich and filling and flavorful. I hope you try the liege and stew!

I just found you and loved this video! I would love to try all these delicious food places. I have never been to Brussels, but definitely want to go. I am looking forward to your other videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious. 😊

Belgium is a magical place isn’t it? We were in Brussels for the second time this year and ate the best food and drank the best beer. Glad you guys had fun!

You should try Witlof cheese and ham, tomates crevettes (North Sea shrimp tomato), steak frites and carbonade flamande (beef stew), I think you will like it !

It's great to watch you two. I was attracted to your channel out of reminiscing about my childhood food in Germany, but it has become so much more. I like how when Phil is eating first and Deana is filming he teases her by continuing to eat to the point she has to say "Hey save some for me", but when Phil is filming and wants some of what Deana is eating, she gives right in and Phil says "Ya for Papa"... lol. You guys work well together and its very entertaining. Thank you.

Amazing what the algorithm will bring to us. My great-grandmother was from Bruxelles, and I haven't been there since I was a toddler. Thank you for showing me a little bit of modern Bruxelles!

great video again Deana and Phil. Have a nice weekend and until the next video.

@DeanaandPhil

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

Great that you visited my home country 🙂 Thanks for another wonderful video, always brightens up my evening after a day of work. For next time, can I recommend that you try mattentaarten (a cake with a filling of curdled milk), shrimp croquettes, chicory with ham oven dish, sirop de Liège or meatballs with hot cherries. And try one of the other great cities of Belgium, like Antwerp, Liège or Ghent. Herzliche Grüße aus Belgien (German is our 3rd official language)

These videos are amazing. Well made.

The dish you ate at the end is not waterzooi but vol-au-vent. We eat them usually with fries. The big pot of fries is for 2 persons.

Just found your channel on youtube and love it! I lived in Brussels 6 years and needless to say that Belgium has the best fries, chocolate and let's not forget, BEER! I am now living in Austria and miss the delicious mussels and several other dishes unique in Belgium. I subscribed, you guys are fun to watch. Looking forward to your next video.

We lived in Brussel, a Salad as a main meal comes with frites! Maybe the best food overall we have eaten worldwide. Try a Dubble or tripple beer for a real Belgian beer but be careful they are potent! Trappist too! As an Ametican we thought the fruit filled waffles the best but a Belgian bakery has so many outstanding choices other than waffles. We lived in Germany for years and love German food but the Belgian cuisine is just a bit stand alone special! Excellent Belgian beef dishes where Germany is so pork heavy!!

Nice video. With the pili pili you certainly had one of the better sauces on your fries 🙂. About the muscles, personally I like bread with them. it's so good to dip it in the broth.

Small tip to eat mussels, use an empty shell of a mussel to grab the other ones.

@Bralo20

8 ай бұрын

The easiest way to recognise tourists or "chi chi" folks: when they use a fork to eat mussels, true Belgians use an empty shell :)

I am Dutch. And if I try to speak Dutch in Brussels they act like I'm from some intergalactic space ship. They just refuse. Don't believe any Dutch claim to fries. Here in the Netherlands the places that sell the best are selling Belgium fries

I've had fries at several places in Belgium and by far my favorite is Frituur bij Filip in Gent! It's basically a stand and there's no sign whatsoever, but you can recognize it by the long line in front of it 👌

The dish you call 'waterzooi' is not waterzooi, but it is vol-au-vent. Nice to see people enjoy Belgian delicacies :)

Welcome in Belgium! I love this video and I'm a belgian! ❤🇧🇪 (+1 like)

We eat mussels with a shell as tool (no fork, no knife). You can use an empty shell as a sort of grab, to grab the next mussel from its shell - that's the original way to eat mussels. Didn't you get any sauses? Mussels are usually accompanied by one ore two sauses. The other dish you got was a 'vol au vent' or kippastei in Dutch - very nice with black pepper and parsley.

Well done, you made honour to the belgian cuisine. The mussel broth is a must some tourists tend to leave aside. I was also surprised by the waffle topping!! I’ll try it next time I go to the galeries of Brussels

Great video, you've missed a typical candy called cuberdon (you won't find it anywhere else 'cause it doesn't tolerate transport)...u can eat great waffles for 1 euro right next to the Manneken Pis (at least that was the price before covid), the original one always! those with toppings are for tourists :) and there are 2 types of waffles, the soft one and the one with tiny pieces of sugar/the crunchy one :)

Cheers from Belgium. There’s so much to eat (and drink), but you covered the main ones ❤

Love the videos. I lived in Bamberg for 4 years. Have you guys been there yet? Absolutely love it there. Hi from Florida by the way!

My Belgian waffle of choice is the liege, plain. My son and I once took the Eurostar just for the waffles. And when in Brussels absolutely get the chocolates. Even if you think you don't like truffles you will change your mind!

Looks like a delicious place to visit. Thank you for sharing. Were there any other things to do that is special to Brussels besides eating? Though I do remember picking up chocolate at the airport for layovers - yum!!

@miekecornelis5076

8 ай бұрын

Pls do not buy chocolats at the airport. Go to Brugge of Antwerp. Go for a real chocolat tast in artisanal chocolatiers. Tast the difference!

@urswalther8345

6 ай бұрын

There’s so many things to do in Brussels! It might not be Paris, London or Madrid but you won’t get bored fast. Just walk around and admire the different architectural styles or visit one of the great museums.

@urswalther8345

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@miekecornelis5076Definitely!

Thank you very much for promoting Brussels!

Oooh the land of fries, I too was surprised to find that it was Belgium who originated the dish. Just so you know Noisette is hazelnut (one of my favs especially roasted). Always fun to see where you go and what you eat,lol. Thanks Deana and Phil for taking us along, see you soon!

@jeffhampton2767

8 ай бұрын

Belgium did not invent French fries

@bkm2797

8 ай бұрын

jeffhampton2767, Hey Jeff, do me a favor before you make a comment you know nothing about by googling it first! Yes Belgium is exactly where French Fries were created. Cheers

@jeffhampton2767

8 ай бұрын

@@bkm2797 You are completely delusional, Belgium did not invent French fries. Potatoes come from South America and Peru and the Peruvian people were frying potatoes in animal fat over five thousand years ago. Do a little research and learn the truth. You're fake news!!

@jeffhampton2767

8 ай бұрын

@@bkm2797 Here's another one that will get you steaming. The top 10 beers in the world not one of them is from Belgium. Sorry for you!

@bkm2797

8 ай бұрын

jeffhampton2767, Why would it bother me, I'm from the United States and not a big fan of beer. Would Ireland be in the top ten for their Guinness, thinking Germany would also be in the top ten? Cheers

looks delicious , we'll go there next month. nom nom

This is perfect timing, wife and I are planning a trip there next year!

@silkelemmens9068

7 ай бұрын

Oh nice! If you have the chance also try some other cities like bruges or ghent in flanders and Durbuy In Walloon. Also the region around Ieper and Diksmuide I would highly recommend. It is known for its history of the world wars(check out the last post, the ijzertoren etc) and maybe try some belgian nature in the Ardennes and "het Zwin". These places are probably not as known as Brussels but they really are worth a visit ! greetings from Flanders!!

@silkelemmens9068

7 ай бұрын

(also Antwerp is nice, but I've gotten used to it after studying there for three years 😅)

For the mussels, we often use 1 shell as kind of a tweezer thing to get the other mussels out of their shell and eat them like that. So no fork used then

You could pop across the German border to the Luxembourg Mosel region, and try a Friture de la Moselle with a nice dry local Riesling. You won’t regret it. There is also the Rieslingspaschtéit (pâté au Riesling) to sample. And more beyond.

1.There are 2 belgium waffles, the brussel waffle and the liege waffle. 2. I never saw someone eating mussels with a fork😂😂😂 your first time mussels?? 3. Never eat closed mussels.

@devind132

8 ай бұрын

I always eat mussels with a small mussel fork.

@aysunrhn1

8 ай бұрын

​@devind132 same here! I've been doing it for a while now to avoid getting my hands dirty and I think I've mastered the craft. I eat faster this way

Hey, so i'm from Belgium. So the 'waterzooi' is more commonly known as 'vol-au-vent' the puff pastry is kinda common but some people prefer without it. It's waaaaay more common to have mashed potatoes with it or mashed potato croquettes. They don't boil the chicken, they make a broth with the chicken before hand and use that as base. Most families also have their own unique recipe. Brussels is the capital so it has a bit of everything, but to really get the tastes from Belgium you should checkout every regions speciality. Have fun on your trips :)

Ihr seid so authentisch! Ich mag die Muscheln nicht aber den Sud oder Suppe ist köstlich. Macht weiter so und danke fürs teilen. 👍😍😘

Welcome in belgium my friends Hope you had a nice time Be carefull with beers Your dish is vol-au-vent my favorite

@14:15 the trick with eating mussels, is that you take the empty shell of the first one (or find a empty one to start) and use that as a pincher to pull the second/third/fourth etc mussels out of their shells. very efficient :)

Pro tip for eating mussels. Use a clam for tongs and you don't need a fork. 👍🏻😃

@DeanaandPhil

8 ай бұрын

Good to know! Thanks Instead we used our fingers mostly which is a bit challenging when also handling a camera!

@wtsalive8210

8 ай бұрын

I wanted to write it, too

the waterzoi chicken is not the waterzoi chicken but vol-au-vent. Vol-au-vent is one of my favorite dishes and another thing I recommend is belgian stoofvlees/beef stew, this is a really big flemish thing in belgium. Living in belgium and eating these things daily makes me forget sometimes that not everyone has eaten these dishes atleast once, So it really is nice to see other people eat dishes from here, and in belgium in fully our ways, and see their reactions. other places I recommend ar eplaces in the Ardennes, Antwerp, Gent, Brugge but also some smaller less known city's like Turnhout.

As a dutchy, I would eat the fries with the tartare saus, coz we don’t have that at all snackbars in NL, some do tho, I love that sauce. I have eaten muscles when I was younger, and I love that, what you have there is exactly that silty taste with the veggies that I loved. Allergic to them now. Trust me, I tried, never again unfortunatly. Great so see you had fun 😊

are you guys going to bruges? because i'd love to see a video on that!

The vol-au-vent reminded me of 'chicken à la king' in the States. Basically, chicken stew over shortbread biscuits, super yummy comfort food. The puff pastry would be delish.

@LythaWausW

8 ай бұрын

I make chicken a la king in Germany using their popular dumplings, kloesse.

@mjpspit

7 ай бұрын

Vol au vent is also called bouchée à la reine, so getting clos to the royals😂

If you come back in Belgium, I recomand the restaurant GUS in Brussels. They specialize in beer: they sell beers from "microbrasseries" and all of their dishes have an element of beer in it (without being specialy alcoholic) Everything is delicious and it's not a tourist trap (I'm Belgian and I went several times) ^^

You HAVE to have a mayonaise/musterdsauce when eating mussels&fries!Your "waterzooi" (although delicious!)was indeed a vol au vent or"koninginnehapje"...and nobody in Belgium eats waffels with tartare:bah!Keep up the good work& enjoy !

In Belgium you can find ALOT of cafes with different kinds of beer, whenever you should be in Bruges you guys really need to see and try 2BE, it's a beer museum and cafe all in 1 Also, what we Belgians also visit alot during the summer is Oostende, they have different kind of beer and they are known for alot and one of the best sea dishes Belgium gotta offer For the pili pili sauce.... You can buy it in some stores like Carrefour, Colruyt or Delhaize for some good prices...In Brussel itself its really expensive because of the tourists

Yes, the best in mussels is the broth! I luv it too🍀🇧🇪

at 12:03 you were eating vol-au-vent its the only dish i know with a pastry, waterzooi is more like a soup i think, it does come with potatoes, vol-au-vent you can have just simple like that, or with some fries

Your videos make me hungry ❤

Bienvenue en Belgique ! Funny thing, never seen that beef waffle thing. A bit weird! But i guess it can be good as well!

U really have to try cuberdons. They are amazing, also don't go for waffles like that. As an Belgian I never had it like that, and never would lol. Plain or with sweet cherry or ice cream , also try them both. Brussel waffle and waffle liège (Luikse wafel)

Interested to see that Phil studied in Durham. There were many Germans there when I was a student in the 70s which is how I came to spend that really hot summer of '76 in Germany

Will be visiting Heppenheim, Laudenbach Sept. 20. Excited to visit Germany and meet relatives for the 1st time!

Brussels is also famous for oysters in Fall- Winter.

Phil is totally right : the true waterzooi is more like a soup with chicken ( original receipe from Ghent) and potatoes and some vegetables ( and might occasionally contain some mushrooms)

I think you got served Vol-au-vent instead of Waterzooi. Those are two separate dishes. Waterzooi is literally "water stuff/sh*t/crap" so basically it's a thin clear broth soup with ingredients thrown together. Mainly with chicken breast, potatoes, soup vegetables. But the dish you are eating is Vol-au-vent which is our version of chicken pot pie; a pot made of puff pastry, filled with a thick white bechamel sauce made with chicken stock and filled with chicken chunks, meatballs and mushrooms. Comfort food on rainy days. 🌧 And the chicken gets boiled because you make the sauce from the broth. It's usually made with cheap "soup chicken" carcasses.

@Zerodess

7 ай бұрын

sh*t/crap is a bad way to say it better would be "water mess"

I live in Brussels and give this tour a 9/10. Fantastic location I couldn't recommend better place to visit. You lost 1 point for the beer because Stella taste like water and we have more than 300 other options in Belgium. Next time try a Blanche, a Geuze or any Abbey beer ;)

Fun story: when me and my ex visited a friend in Belgium, we also went to a chinese restaurant. The first time at a chinese restaurant, when we where asked if we wanted our meal with rice or rather french fries. I LOVE french fries! But we went with the rice 🙂 Also have to mention (as a german): belgium beer is much underrated! They have a lot of fantastic beers! Maybe some folks from Belgium could give some advice, here?

@Magic0165

7 ай бұрын

The best advice.. NEVER use the word French fries in Belgium 🤣. You'll be deported😉. About the beers.. Abbey beer brewed by monks is considered one of the best in the the world (I don't like beer). Bruges in the north part, called the Venice of the north is worth visiting. Ghent This is the dutch speaking part of Belgium. I'm a Belgian...we often don't see the beauty of our own country. But I'm amazed by the reactions of people visiting us. Makes me realize Belgium is a nice, beautifull place. Thanks for making me realizing that again. So.. The beers.. Trappist... Westvleteren. Considered the best abbey beer. About the other beers.. To much to mention them all😅. Wanna feel at home.. The east part of Belgium is German speaking.

@stevenhendrix4768

7 ай бұрын

When it comes down to beer in Belgium we are certainly not the best in the world in pilsener beers. Germany is better for example, Tjechs also outperform us but we are still way better then the dutch pils beers or the American pils beers. Bud or Heiniken aren't even beers in my opinion. Belgium is the best in speciality often but not always stronger beers and has the most of them (over a thousend). I'm a Belgian myself and I prefere Trapist beers like Chimay or Rochefort in winter time but in summer I drink Geuze or Rodenbach and yes sometimes an ordinary to us Stella Artois or Jupiler pilsbeer. For me one of the best is Sint-Bernardus abt 12° It is not a Trapist but it is also very complex and very strong but it doesn't taste strong. When you prefere Blond beers I suspect you do as a German I advise Duvel tripple hop or Omer.

@Peterigepan

6 ай бұрын

Honestly nobody knows what is the best beer. If you try 5 beers a day you wont finish trying them all within the year! Some of my favorites ( I prefer blonde) - tripel karmeliet - La chouffe - blue chimay - De koninck (“bolleke”) is Antwerp’s city beer with iconic glass and feeling of home - west vleteren (iconic traditional beer, without a ticket on the bottle (its just black), where monks still live secluded and only brew to support the abbey, so hard to get that it is very often given as a gift (just a couple of bottles, my brother got one for their birthday at a point) - basically many more but i’ve typed so much wd

@stevenhendrix4768

6 ай бұрын

@@Peterigepan Excelent choices You know your Belgian classics. Just a bolleke isn't my thing but that doesn't mean it is a well crafted beer. You are right about West Vleteren very hard to find but I did find a place in my city that serves that beer at the price of 11 euros. It is very good but is it 2x as good as a simalar Rochefort (6 euros)? I don't think so. The hunt for West-Vleteren in my opinion is shear snobbism. For your information : look out for the new Karmeliet it is going to have 4 instead of 3 grains. I don't know the name in English or German for the extra weed. In Flemish we call it haver. You know that stuff they feed the horses. I can't wait to try it but I haven't seen it anywhere yet.

@peterdoe2617

6 ай бұрын

@@Peterigepan My brother introduced me to IPA's in 2012. Indian pale ale. The idea: to create different aromas, by just using different hops. My 1st one was the "5 barrel pale ale" from a little brewery in Colorado. A fascinating thing! IPA's only came into Germany some 10 yrs ago.

Now you need to come to Tangiers in Morocco, you will have an awesome food tour here. I m a Moroccan from Holland living now in Tangiers, I would like to welcome you guys over here, and guide you a bit for the good food places.

@TrackANaziMerc

8 ай бұрын

To experience Morocco they could just stay in Belgium and The Netherlands, saves them the money.

Waterzooi is a soup. The one that you showed us is "Vol au vent" Waterzooi is mostly eaten in Ghent. But I love this video. Belgian greetings!

As a dutch person who lives close to the border of belgium we know belgian fries are the best. With mayo of course. i think other sauces can be great but the taste of the sweet savory potato can get overpowered. We eat mussels like that, made with beer or wine and those vegetables they sell precut and mixed. But we eat them with "musselbread" which is a big tasty white bread you dip in the broth from the bottom of the pot. I don't like mussels but I liked eating that. I don't understand having the fries with it but that's how it's often served. Eel is also a local dish, fried or cooked "in green" which is a sauce full of herbs. And yes that was not waterzooi but vol-au-vent but most important is that you enjoyed it. I think waterzooi is more of a basic soup at heart.

I always use the bread to soak up the mussel broth.

Belgium is not just muscels, fries,beef stew and chocolate. There are a lot of Michelin star restaurants here. And you can eat veggie in a lot of places.

I would like to go to that chocolate shop. The fries also looked good.

@jeffhampton2767

8 ай бұрын

Order the chocolates online

I’m not gonna lie. I’m a bit falling in love with you two. Definitely your videos. Keep doing what you do. Love, Ray.

I love how you after some years of marriage still feed each other... 😃😃👍 Phil, as a kid, did you never have ragout fin? It was a classic dish in Germany for family dinners several years ago. It looked very much like this waterzooi you had...

Love watching u 2 👍🏻

Ah man, I really want to get to Europe for 2 week visit!

@DeanaandPhil

8 ай бұрын

We hope you get the chance to!

Belgium and Czech have the best beer in the world. Duval, Leffe, Jupiler, Bacchus, Kwak, Hoegaarden...etc. Oh man, I sometimes go to Brussels with my wife from London on the Eurostar just to enjoy some delicious Belgian beer.

@jeffhampton2767

8 ай бұрын

That's funny because Belgium beer is not even rated in top 10 beers in the world

@martinkasper197

8 ай бұрын

You forgot German/bavarian and Austrian beer...🍻

@mariatheresavonhabsburg

8 ай бұрын

​@@jeffhampton2767 That's simply false.

@jeffhampton2767

8 ай бұрын

@@mariatheresavonhabsburg The top 10 beers in the world not one of them is from Belgium. It's true!

@jeffhampton2767

8 ай бұрын

@@mariatheresavonhabsburg Canada thinks their beer is the best beer in the world also, and there was not one Canadian beer on the top 10 list.

Next time you should try stoofvlees, my grandparents always make it. It's with meat and a sauce, i'm not sure what's in in exactly, but it's really delicious.

Thanks!

@DeanaandPhil

3 ай бұрын

Thank YOU!! 🤗💜

I'm belgian, I've never seen a waffle with beef tartare in Belgium OMG, it seems weird, for me it supposed to be sweet X) That's cool you like the food here, of course we have a lot more, but it's not only in Brussels, we have many specialties by region, "Boulet liégeois" from Liège for example or "L'avisance" in Namur :) PS : That was funny to see you eating mussels with a fork ^^ Of course if not one tells you before but we usually eat the first one normally, and then we take a mussel shell to catch the next ones ^^

About the mossels: if you order the basic mossels dish, called "mosselen natuur", you get a small cup with sauce to go with it. The sauce is made of the bouillon of the mossels with mustard mixed in it, and is so very tasty that I don't want to eat the mossels without it.

Thank you for making this video. I appreciate it! When watching it I just got affraie you took all the very touristy food spots. They unfortunately don't offer the best examples.

a big miss on not going to Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon, Moeder Lambic or 3 Fonteinen and getting a tour / history / pairing of Lambic, Geueze, Kriek and Framboise! Such a wonderful ancient brew! Be sure to bring a few bottles to age at home! (i find aging 5 years for Geueze to be perfect) Natural brewing is incredibly interesting and healthy! Healthy bacteria for the gut For walking/sightseeing the museams around atomium + the parks are my spouse's favourite for a day trip (especially if they are setting up for a free music festival!) the locally frequented decent food is in the outer areas, decent prices also but stellar compared to city centre (but go to Moeder Lambic and Cantillon!) I would say BXL or another belgian festival would be a great video from you guys so would Bruges for some fresh seafood and a bit of romance! I met my German in Bruxelles ;) we tend to love going back! We are hoping to go to "In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst" next its in Eizeringen it translates to "In Insurance against the Great Thirst " super cool cafe only open on Sundays voted best in the world!

@flitsertheo

8 ай бұрын

How do you expect tourists to find a forgotten and forlorn hamlet such as Eizeringen ? If it wasn't for the 2 main roads crossing there nobody would even know it exists.

@ifger

8 ай бұрын

having the worlds best beer cafe might just do it@@flitsertheo

@07:02 Did you say "Grand Palace Square"? If yes, it is not that. Grand-Place just means "Big Place/Main Square", that's it.

Your waterzooi is actually ‘vol au vent ‘ or ‘ koninginnehapje’. Waterzooi originate in east flanders and is with vegtables

if u ever visit belgium again ( in the dutch part ) try "Stoofvlees" its basicly a meat stew, but it is in most places made with some kind of belgian beer and its always very delicious! And also definately try a "luikse wafel"! Sad that u didnt get anny musselsauce with those mussels, they really finish the dish. & like most people are saying in the comments, sadly u didnt get Waterzooi, it looks and tastes different. Seems like u got "Vol-au-vent" or "Vidée" instead (Which is also really good by the way!) Safe travels :)

The first mussel you eat with a fork. All others you pick with the first empty shell🤗

Dish 6 was actually a "Vol-au-vent" Waterzooi can be made out of chicken indeed but it is basicaly a fish soup. The fries you got with the mussels were actually for both of you guys. They put it like that on the table and you can order some more whenever you want ( for free most of te time ). And the type of waffles you ate were called Brussels waffles. I don't really get why and how they are that famous all over the world, we belgian are used to eat Liège waffles, sorry you couldn't try some. Great video

yall should really vist Gent, its tbh really cool, also much monuments and it even has a whole graffity street, really beautifull if u ask me

No no no, the Liege waffel is plane. The toppings are for tourists bc it is sweet as.... but in winter when it is really cold outside, that smell is yummy😋

That soft creamy thing is called praline for me the best chocolate 🍫 is from the leonidas ❤❤❤

the best mussels you prolly will find on the sea side of belgium, and in the right season. They are like twice or 3x as big as what you eating now... Now you get a lot of shell and not so much meat :D and you can use the shell to pick out the mussels from the other shells, no need for a fork. the shells are the fork :D

Great video. You must avoid Rue des Bouchers though.. it's a total tourist trap, very low if not unexisted hygiene in the restaurants and nothing's fresh.. (I'm a local). They charge you far to much for what's not even belgian food. Also to avoid = the restaurants in the street next to Rue des Bouchers (called Bergstraat/Rue de la Montagne): nothing's belgian.

when eating moule frites use the shell to pick out the muscles like a little pincer

The waterzooi you said you were eating is not really waterzooi, what you were eating is videe, vol-au-vent, kiniginnehapje, it has different names depending on which region you are in. Chicken waterzooi is actually just chicken in a clear broth with pieces of vegetables. Waterzooi also contains no cream. so either you chose something wrong, or they served something wrong ;-)

Best frites are from Wallonia and best frikandellen are from Vlandern (Flandres), basically the differences splitting up Belgium, best moules are Danish. 🇧🇪🇩🇰

i've seen so many video's of people visiting Belgium and tasting our food and one thing will always get them, and its the chocolate

For the mussles, you can easily eat them by using an empty shell like pincers, pulling out the mussel from the shell.

the waterzoi is actually called: vol-au-vent or koninginnenhapje