Trying Indonesian Food For The First Time In Rotterdam Netherlands... Was It A Hit or Miss??

When we moved from the US to Rotterdam Netherlands we have tried some good food and some great food, but for me it been a hit and sometimes a miss. But the Indonesian Food we had today was a very pleasant surprise. I'm not sure what I was really expecting but I was surprised in a very good way! Living in Rotterdam as an expat from the US, one of our goals was to get out of our comfort zone and try new foods to us and this fit the bill. So The following is a list of things we tried and every tasting was really good. SOOOO... Thanks for watching our little vlog about us, our food tasting and what the food is really like in the Netherlands. A big thank you to TOKO Jeanny and Irwan for helping us out of our comfort zone and taste what real Indonesian food tastes like! Moving to Rotterdam Netherlands from the US I can tell you that you really can not get food this authentic. So if you travel to Rotterdam Netherlands, get off the beaten path find an alley or side street and try some food that you will not find anywhere else! Life in Europe is great!!!
0:00 Intro
1:52 TOKO Jeanny
2:47 Rendang Daging Sapi
3:38 Bintang Beer
4:20 Ayam Kalio
5:37 Gado Gado Met Pinda Saus
7:12 Sambal Goreng Tempeh
8:43 Kroepoek
9:05 Bami Goreng
10:10 Sambal Goreng Telor
11:30 Satay Ayam
12:55 Nasi Goreng
14:30 Lemper
16:00 Atjar Ketimoen
17:00 Sajoer Boontjes
22:00 Bloopers

[@oseijler]

Pasar malam is great!! Indonesian 🇮🇩 market with food, dance, culture and really nice!! It’s not a tourist thing … you will see a lot of Dutch/Indonesian and white Dutch people. Enjoy it!!

[@bonsai67]

Btw, I heard from my Californian cousin that there are quite a lot of good Indonesian restaurants in SoCal. Probably because of the many Dutch-Indo families who emigrated to the USA back in the 50's and 60's (e.g., the Van Halen family 😉).

[@RAWDernison1]

Next time, ask your Toko for "Pisang Goreng" (fried banana). Enjoy, selamat makan.

[@KajiRider1997]

My mom loves pisang goreng. Ours doesn't make any sadly. and the chindo always screw up the batter.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hello RAW! Thank you for the suggestion! We will have to add that to the list for our next visit to the toko! 😊

[@TheYvesDropper]

@@KajiRider1997 You can make Pisang Goreng yourself. It's very easy.

[@KajiRider1997]

@@TheYvesDropper My mom does that too. Its just missing from the indo in general lol when you get indo you hope to get certain things.

[@baldwin9180]

Thank you so much for enjoying "Indisch Eten" and "Indonesian food". Me being self an "Indisch Person" of mixed Javanese and Zeeland( province of the Netherlands south of South-Holland) heritage I am happy to hear you had a special culinair experience. Like you I am an expat too living with my Indonesian wife in Indonesia the country of half of my ancestors. Maybe one day you can come to Indonesia which used to be the "Dutch Indies" and have a taste of Indonesian food over here! Thanks for your video, I enjoyed it a lot!

[@janaaj1an889]

You keep switching sides! She should be on the right (left hand outboard) and you should be on her left (right hand outboard). Although when you were seated with your dominant arms inboard, you managed not to beat each other up (years of practice, clearly).

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

@@janaaj1an889 lol!!🤣 We like to change it up a bit sometimes!!

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi Baldwin! It would be nice to visit Indonesia one day💕. Thank you very much for watching us😊

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

good sateh is roasted on charcoal, it is either babi, ayam, or goat usually I forgot the name for goat..

[@sjaakvantilborg9275]

sate gambing is geit

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

Yes bintang is star. It is actually Heineken beer. Heineken has a green star in the logo. After the independence of Indonesia, they took over the factory and continued making Heineken. The changed the star to red (color of Indonesia) and called it star beer. bintang.

[@Hrn250]

The taste is different , better .

[@renevaanhold]

Sorry, but Heineken never had a green star in their logo. They always had a red star. Only during the Cold War they used a white star with a red line.

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

@@renevaanhold you’re right. It was always red. The label is green

[@Hrn250]

@@renevaanhold klopt, is rood

[@Ivovify]

Indonesian food.....yum yum. Love all of it. Had some Indonesian friends when I was young, was always a joy to go eat over there. Especially when there was something to celebrate, tables with food like this and the expectation that you eat at least two plates full.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

😱 two plates full!!! Oh, boy! I couldn’t even get through one and I was very full!!

[@rw80]

Same here. We had Indonesian neighbours and there was always delicious food for every who was there.

[@kellyvandijk3269]

Hi, try to go to the Pasar Malam in Ahoy on 11 12 and 13 November, this is a big Indonesian event with music, dance, singing lots of beautiful items to buy and real Indonesian clothing and lots of food and drinks. I go every year to the Pasar in Groningen and Assen.

[@fransezomer]

The only thing 'missing' here is Indonesian Beef Ren Dang (slow cooked spuicy beef). With extra spicy sambal white rice and veggies... Man, absolutely to die for!

[@quatra1000]

The history of Indonesian food is interesting. Before Indonesia's independence in 1949, the Dutch landowners had vast tracks of land. In the weekends, or special holidays, they would invite their neighbors. Neighbors being the next family maybe 20 kilometers away. They would send out a messenger boy with a formal invitation and both households would start cooking 3 days before. That is, the cooks would start preparations, going to the market, etc. The cooks would be Indonesian AND Chinese. One family would prepare, say, 10 dishes and the other family another 10 dishes. The day of the reunion the resulting 20 different dishes would be served. The base is always noodles (Chinese) and rice (Indonesian). In Indisch Chinees restaurants in The Netherlands rijsttafel will be on the menu for 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 people and an extra table will be put next to yours to acommodate all the different dishes and the table warmers.

[@erwinamesz7642]

Go to the Pasar malam and enjoy the best Indonesian food and friendship!!! Just roasted sateh with kecap sauce or with the peanut sauce is fantastic. Lemper and pastel goring are also great!!!

[@Dolce_Far_Niente]

My kind of food😋 all the dishes you tried, I love it! The spicyness is probably adapted to the Dutch people 😂 I'm glad you like Indonesian food. Have a great weekend 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@marcusfranconium3392]

You can ask for the more traditional versions as well.

[@wimthuis4741]

I call all the food that is adapted to the Dutch people westernised. My favor is the original spicyness because I learned to eat the original food as I was in the military and a collegue was maried to a Indonesian lady. They "forced "me to eat every evening at their home and it was always Indonesian. She learned me how to prepare it the right way and if I in the mood I make several dishes and family and friends are always welcome because it is always to much.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

@@wimthuis4741 True.still there are some good old style indonesian restaurants . where the spicynes is still how it should be . THere are many different versions of the dishes as well Sumatran , Javan , Molukkan etc . Whe i was in the navy we still had the luck that some of the older mollukan and indonesian cheffs around. Sadly many dishes have become lost or forgotten .

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi Joyce! We are glad that you watched our video!! Thank you very much!😊

[@Dolce_Far_Niente]

@@marcusfranconium3392 So true or trying to make it yourself😋 even better.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Rice table is the Dutch fusion translation of Indonesian food.

[@WhoStoleMyAlias]

uhmm, no. It's a Dutch invention all right but it's original intent was a display of wealth towards guests in the Dutch Indies. The only thing `fusion` about it is that in a smaller scale one might consider it as Indonesian tapas. Rice table has since become an Indo Dutch tradition for birthday parties - no plakjes leverworst and blokjes kaas there...

[@_PJW_]

And the pinnacle of that is the Nasi Rames or Bami Rames. Basically a mini rice table on one plate. Perfect Friday TV-dinner.

[@brianmaphar9685]

Great tasting vid! and great that you 2 finally found your way to an Indo toko! My family is from former Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and they and all others brought so many food dishes with them, when they had to come here. The many tokos are the remaining legacy of their food heritage. We are finally back in Holland (living in Canada), on vacation, and the first night back my mom and brother celebrated with a kumpulan / family gathering with rijsttafel. We always had those kumpulans when my grandparents were still alive. I really missed the flavor and the taste of "home cooked" Indisch eten. Glad you tasted the tip of the iceberg, of the Indische/Indonesian mountain of food. There is soooo much more to explore! Enjoy your voyage in the multi culti cuisine, here in The Netherlands and please take us along, with your vids.

[@bwcenter95]

Indonesia is a rice eater country, so majority (but not all, like gado" is a vegetable salad with peanut sauce) of the food is meant to be eaten with rice 🙂

[@ardamsterdam1960]

Being partially from Indonesian decent, I grew up with Indonesian food. And just like Eric, I pass on the eggs. At the start Tammy was wondering is there was an order to eat it. From my Indonesian mother we learned you eat those dishes with either white rice or with nasi kuning (yellow rice with coconut). That way the flavour of the seperate dishes will not get dulled down by the taste of the nasi or bami. You get a bite with rice and rendang, then a bite of rice with ayam etc. (btw Tammy: the crunchy bits on the bami/nasi are fried and dried onions) Stricktly speaking the nasi goreng originated as a dish of leftovers after a 'rijsttafel'. Everything was put in the wadjang and stir fried.

[@Roel_Scoot]

Nasi goreng as left over dish makes a delicious breakfast: Nasi Goreng dan Telor Mata Sapi (fried rice with a fried egg "sunny side up"< Mata Sapi = Cows eye>)

[@romratt]

Fun fact:You tried Surinaams first and then Indies but the surinam food you had was influenced by the indonesian coocking because we dutchies first occupied indonesia and after we traded New York for Suriname we brought those two cuisines together.A bit like how Cajun is a mix of different cultures the surinaams you get in the Netherlands is a mix of cultures.....I know slavery is a bad thing but it created a lot of delicious foods

[@amossutandi]

And the chinese food they tried was also the dutchefied indonesian chinese version)))

[@wilfredzwart2154]

Green beans is “ sambal goreng boontje”. Spicy 🌶 but delicious!

[@norajazzypoppy9043]

My Grantmother was from Indonesië.so i love the food.Tammy je spreekt steeds beter Nederlands 😊Have a good weekend 🌷😊

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hallo Nora! Dank je wel! Fijn weekend😊

[@parmentier7457]

For a real Indonesian atmosphere and food you should go to a Pasar Malam (Indonesian night market) that is organized in almost every city. But the biggest annual Pasar Malam is the TongTong fair in The Hague (next to central station). It has been organized since the 1960s and is the largest Indonesian food festival in the world outside of Indonesia.

[@ThirstyTunaTaco]

Go visit a Pasar Malam and have a taste of Indonesian culture and hospitality.. You would love it.

[@henkkoning2250]

Indonesia is comprised of many islands and the people of all these islands have a different take on flavours and meals altogether.

[@bonsai67]

A rijsttafel is not Indonesian. It's something the Dutch colonials invented. They had the means to arrange big parties with lots of food on the table, all sorts of rice and variety of vegetables, fish and meats. The meals of the average Indonesian families back then consisted of mainly rice with whatever they could afford. After WWII the Dutch colonials and the Dutch-Indie (ie. of mixed race) families had to flee the then proclaimed independent Republic of Indonesia and were repatriated to the Netherlands. Some of them never saw their motherland again. They introduced the rijsttafel in The Netherlands, which is now part of Dutch heritage.

[@Tclans]

It’s so fun to see you guys enjoy the riches and perks of the Netherlands. We are very much blessed as a country with all these great cultures and amazing foods. Second of all this episode was such a fun exploration endeavor for you guys. Great you got to enjoy it and liked it. Thanks for letting us in on the fun. Will you guys do Dutch lessons on camera sometime?

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi Tclans! Thank you for your kind words, and thank you for wanting to be let in on the fun!! Dutch lessons on camera is a fun idea! 😊

[@jboreel1936]

Thank you for your enthousiast comments on Indisch/Indonesian food. Rijsttafel is a Dutch colonial invention. I myself am from colonial roots. The way to enjoy the food is to put first of all rice in the middle of your plate. Use a deep dish. All around the edges you put little bits of the various dishes so you can make various combinations. Use a spoon and fork for eating. Drink water with it or beer or a whisky soda callrd a "splitje". In september there will be the Tong Tong festival in The Hague. A major event for ten days Enjoy!

[@MrWiggenhammer]

Fun story, when my mother joined my father on her first trip to Indonesia to meet his parents the radio commercial for bintang beer. Used the same tune as Heineken.

[@pierrewagenaar3162]

Well so pleasedto see you discover indonesian food dutch style. The real thing id much more spicier when you visit the Pasar you will find out. Never think Chinese indonesian Suriname food are a lot the same. There are still 1000 things to discover in any foreign meals. Visit the indo community in tge hague. Yiu wont regret it . Ty for posting

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

And Thank You for watching us, Pierre!! We appreciate your support!😊

[@dutchgamer842]

It's not al spicy at all, it depends on family traditions and the region o Indonesia where it came from

[@vincentbols3546]

fijn weekend! harstikke leuk om te kijken.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hallo Vincent! Thank you for watching!! Fijn weekend!😊

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

If you go to pasar malam (night market), see if they have fresh martabak. You’ll be amazed.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi Evert! Thank you for the suggestion!!😊

[@racingweirdo]

Nearly all chinese restaurants sold indonesian food. Real chinese(kantonees) restaurants are rear here.

[@rajnag86]

Rendang adalah makanan terenak di dunia... Ahhh 😘😘😘

[@CholikunDendy]

Sangat setuju 😋😋

[@sentpardede]

Really fun to watch! Bless you two😄

[@Tweeteketje]

Sayur lodeh is my favourite Indonesian vegetable dish ^^. And you should try soto ayam, Indonesian chicken soup. Also Indonesian snacks are great, like lemper, and I'm sure you will love risoles. And I love spekkoek!

[@xXTheoLinuxXx]

Who doesn't love spekkoek :) Oh and when it comes to snacks, pastel goreng :)

[@ElMariachi1337]

Loved the bloopers. Keep em comming!

[@HansMontijn]

Nice, greetings from a Dutchie in the Balkans. Seeing you makes me homesick. Try Turkish food next time. Groetjes.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hello Hans! Thank you for watching us and thank you for your suggestion!!😊

[@eddys.3524]

We used to go to Toko Jeanny in the past... It's quite good and original Indonesian food. The beer as a beverage with Indonesian food is a rather colonial habit. Tea would be more original. My tip : try to drink some dry Sherry with Indonesian food. Glad you liked it.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi Eddy! Irwan was so kind and patient with us when we were there! It made for a pleasant experience! Thank you for the dry sherry tip!😊

[@RayoptenBerg]

GADO GADO is the bomb. Just with a touch of sambal badjak, I make my own variations and I would love to share my recipe for peanutbutter sauce (but that is restricted, only on request). Anything Indonesian is great, if I wasn't Dutch ... Tammy is taking the spotlight more and more. Challenging hubby to take a leap. I love the dynamic!

[@yvonnebirch6026]

I am smiling already !

[@ceesvanooijen8419]

Finally!...😉

[@biancawichard4057]

hi guys, so funny to see you excited to almost reach 5000 supscribers, at the time im watching ypu already have 11.3k subscribers and you deserve all of them and many more. i have a sugestion in foodtasting for you, since yoy like turkish dfood you should also try food from Greece, its srom the same region so the taste is similar and Egyptian food is great too. enjoy you food tasting as much as i enjoy watching your videos, i love watching you too lovebirds teasing each other.keep up the good work

[@BrazenNL]

Finally!

[@Buboenik]

Lots of Surinamese food comes from Indonesia, due to the slave trade, many people from Java were moved to Suriname. Mixed kitchens.

[@RFGfotografie]

Awesome video yet again.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Thank you, Remco😊

[@AudieHolland]

Sorry for spamming the comments section but what I learned was that traditonal Indonesian dishes, as with most dishes in the entire South East Asian region (going as far as India itself probably) these dishes were not spiced up because they tasted so well. It was just that the people found out that hot spices on any dish would mean no insects or other little critters would go anywhere near the food. So in essence, preparing food with hot spices was a rather succesful way of preserving food in the hot climate for a day or so.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi AudieHolland! No apologies are necessary! We appreciate this interesting bit of information😊

[@cloggy010]

i want it now... lekker hoor!

[@winmachielse1233]

Good to see you enjoyed Indonesian food. This kitchen has so many dishes.

[@bertschalk1798]

So much fun to see you guys being pleasantly surprised by the Indonesian food tasting....I can relate to that as I love it too ! As for the Turkish food.......not an expert at all but at least a nice place to eat (and they have some great food there too) is Obba's Food Bar inside the Markthal, pretty much next to the escalators. Noticed a remark about Japanese and go to SUMO's.....probably just a matter of preference but I'm personally not really into Sumo's as I consider it to be what we call a "vreetschuur" rather than a Japanese restaurant. I'd rather go to Itami f.i. (opposite the street of the New Luxor Theatre on the south side of the Erasmus bridge....). Cheers !!

[@mikedehollander6848]

nice to see you enjoy all these dishes, hope you love the babi pangang from the chinese take away !!

[@MrDaryn]

Every time i watch your video's, i want to go out and buy the same....haha. Keep up the great work

[@renevaanhold]

5000+ subscribers. Congratulations!

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Thank you very much for helping us to reach our goal, René😊

[@robertwemmers8562]

Wow you guys made me hungry with the bami and the nasi goring, my mom made all those meals when i was a kid. Some time i make an rijsttafel that 's called sajoer kerrie ,and bami goring and sate' ajam with kroepoek( we have dutch store( toko ). around the corner. All the stuff comes from the Netherlands. Love your show.

[@Hensepens64]

You are so great. Is it only for 10 months that you are in the Netherlands? Can remember one of your first videos explaining you both just arrived in Rotterdam. Your enthousiasme is fun to watch. As your interest in culture, food, drinks and everything else is as always interesting to see your reactions and views. Keep up your good work and I hope your love and kindness for our country will also have a place in your hearts for years to come.

[@blodekont5458]

I think there is also a way of putting flavours into words.. americans name something that has the heat of peppers spicy.. In the Netherlands it just means it has a lot of spices in it, when it is peppery, hot we call it scherp ( heet is hot in temperature)

[@dirkdemeirleir264]

As a kid I learned to appreciate Indonesian cooking while in holiday in the Netherlands. I m so sad there are no decent Indonesian restaurants in Flanders. So I cook some dishes myself, with a little help from AH sometimes

[@MiguelJW]

P.s. Jumbo heeft (in ieder geval in Nederland) meer Indische produkten dan AH… weet niet of dat in Vlaanderen ook zo is….

[@dirkdemeirleir264]

@@MiguelJW Dan heb ik goede vooruitzichten want eind juni opent een Jumbo in mijn gemeente!

[@MiguelJW]

@@dirkdemeirleir264 geweldig maar ben bang dat ze het assortiment puur aanpassen aan de Belgische behoefte (logisch natuurlijk). Weet eigenlijk niet of er wat Indische mensen in Vlaanderen wonen.

[@dirkdemeirleir264]

@@MiguelJW mijn gemeente grenst aan zeeuws-vlaanderen, dus ze zullen daar ook wel rekening mee houden, hoop ik.

[@MiguelJW]

@@dirkdemeirleir264 laten we het hopen!! Geniet er van!☺️

[@bitty5095]

Next vacation is going to be a food fest. Lots of new stuff to try I see.

[@hanhenderikse]

Great to see you try Indonesian food which is a part of the Dutch history. (not always a proud history).

[@jsb7975]

You are right ofcourse, yet every country has its bad sides. All over the world, slavery, war a.s.o.

[@MiguelJW]

Absolutely a proud history… If the dutch never went to now called Indonesia… we were never be able to eat a patatje oorlog!

[@christafiorentina]

@@MiguelJW my great grandpa was killed brutally by Dutch troops. Your mind is only about to satisfy your belly, you never thought about the extreme hard life caused by Dutch colonialism toward Indonesians in the past.

[@MiguelJW]

@@christafiorentina ok sad to read that. I never said anything about Dutch troops… off course they also did some bad things like every army in every part of the world. My grandma is still deaf. Caused by Japanese army. They had to flee their home!

[@christafiorentina]

@@MiguelJW sorry about your oma, but at least Japanese let your oma alive. Although my grandparents were always told me the horrible things Dutch did in the past toward Indonesian, but as a modern young generation I don't hate Dutch. Because I do understand it was war. It just pissed me off , to read any statement from Dutch nowadays, as if those precious lives of hundreds thousands of Indonesian who has killed by Dutch is not valuable at all.. just equal with patatje oorlog..!?? wtf

[@marjoleincloostra5665]

Indonesian and Surinamees food is so good! Glad you tried it out!

[@TheJolanda01]

You are goning to get 5000 you deserve it you are awesome people really love to meat you some day

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Aww, thank you for your kind words, Jolanda😊

[@geertjejansen1974]

Loved this, thank you! The outtakes were great, and Tammy has a talent for chair dancing! 🥰😂

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Lol🤣 Thank you, Geertje!!😊

[@joopboom4119]

Goreng basically means 'fried'. Nice video's and glad you're enjoying our old neighbourhood!

[@resikostjens5866]

The indonesian snacks are fantastic . And easy to make .. it s always a runner on my birthday 😋😋😋 bintang is heineken .. just the same 😏

[@rinynewton8297]

Hi, again sooo much fun. I love indonesian food. There is zo much more,all lovely. If you go for Chinees food, ask for a " rijst tafel voor 2 personen". There is so much you will realy enjoy it! You can ad some sambal to spice it up a bit. Let yourself being edjucated by the restaurant. Try starters and dessert to! Enjoy. Tot ziens. Well done. Btw love your bloopers! 🤣🤣🤣👍🙋‍♀️

[@adavandorp1605]

like so much your bloopers on the end. put them everytime on the end of your video's. so much fun.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Thank you for the kind words, Ada! And thank you for watching us!!😊

[@JaredLeesMom]

Congratulations to almost 6k subscribers. I enjoyed this outro so much! Hilarious.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Thank you🥰

[@susannedlc25]

Love the nose sounds hahaha. Good videos, wish you guys a lot of more viewers...keep it up. Groetjes uit Den Haag

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Susanne, thank you so much for the kind words and thank you so much for watching.. hope you have a great weekend!!!

[@Dutchbelg3]

Hey Tammy and Eric you did the right thing! GOOD Indonesian food! Right Indonesian food from a good toko. Real Dutch Indonesian food. (As the food has been adapted to the Dutch taste when the Indonesians came to The Netherlands) It is the best fusion of real good food and we LOVE it! Did you know that Bintang beer is part of the Heineken group? Beer is the right drink with Indonesian food :-)

[@sherifadorder8178]

I have native blood (my mom was full blood native of South-America) and I didn't mind Eric did that at all in the bloopers. I laugh sooooo loud. I wanted to join him😂😂 I hope to meet you some day ❤ I live in Kop van Zuid, Rotterdam. I hope some day we'll bump in eigother🎉🎉 Love you guys❤

[@ikke5212]

great good food enjoy

[@ikke5212]

do 1 sep. 2022 - zo 11 sep. 2022 tong tong fair 62e den haag you like it good food and stuff

[@jankokpit]

You may consider visiting the "Tong Tong Fair" in The Hague. The fair is this year from September 1-11. Food, dance, crafts and entertainment! You'll love it!

[@hisgen01]

You guys are awesome. Keep doing these lovely videos. I enjoyed this one, i really love indonesian food. My grandfather lived in Nederlands Indië and after WW2 he and his relatives came back to the Netherlands. My entire family loves Indonesian food. There is so much more to discover. Next time you really have to try "Rendang" this is slow cooked very tender beef with spices and coconut and many people agree this is one of the best dishes in the world. You should also try "Sajur Lodeh" these are vegetables in a mildly spiced coconut creamy sauce (my grandma's favorite) The next thing that is high on my list is "Pepesan". This is smoked mackerel in a very spicy sauce (mainly sambal) steamed in the oven. Try to mix and match your dishes a little bit. For example you take some nasi goreng and you take a piece of rendang (the beef) and a slice of sweetsour cucumber. But don't mix everything that is on your plate into one mash like one big stamppot 🤣. Also don't forget to add some extra "Sambal" to your plate. Add a little bit of it with every bite you take. There are many many varieties you should try. Some not spicy, some extremely spicy. I really like sambal brandal (medium spicy), surinaamse sambal (not indonesian, but very good combination) and sambal badjak (sweet and less spicy). Sambal also goes very well with bread and cheese for a great lunch with a kick 👍😎 Selamat Makan (eetsmakelijk)

[@carlarijff5177]

Love see you try-out everything, again so nice to watch, but Tammy i had so much fun see and listen to you before taping 😂🤣 no worries i keep watching. 👍

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Awww, thank you, Carla!🥰

[@edrison7303]

You must mix the most things you got with the noodles, at own tast add peanut sause or sambal. For me personal i put in a lot of sambal in it but its just the taste you like and want. I love your videos and like it to follow you. Greatings from Rotterdam Zuid.

[@whiskasje]

Rendang is Voted Best Dish in the World

[@singlepringle7485]

Tip for eating Japanese foods: there is an all-you-can-eat restaurant chain in the Netherlands called Sumo. They serve bite size portions. You are getting a list with about 50 different bites to choose from. You choose 3 per serving rounds, by checking them on the list. Price is around 25 euro, but you can eat as many rounds as you want. Don't know if there is a possibility to film there, but it's lots and lots of fun! p.s.: if you decide to go please try the seaweed salad! Thanks for the very nice video again. You rock!

[@Taco048]

Good morning from the german border, nice to see you again. Indonesian food is awesome and you tried some of it. Try to make combinations too, the flavours combined will kick it to the next level. 😉😋 Take the bami and the sajoer boontjes with the rendang and the cucumber together.... Greetings as always and go to a Pasar Malam 😎👍🏼🙋🏻‍♂️🇳🇱👋🏽

[@queercastlimburg]

That's not a typical indonesian rijstafel you can get in an restaurant..

[@70ed81]

Maybe a "Suggestion" to speed it up a little haha,....before the Noodles and Rice gets Cold.😄😉,......You're alot of Fun to watch.👍

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi 70ed! Thank you for the “suggestion”! And, thank you so much for watching us😊

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

the spicey you can usually ad your self, from a pot of sambal, and usually nthere is a bottle of sweet soy sause too you can ad that too, serungdeng, peanuts-coconut - hebs.. as drie sprikles..

[@damouze]

I loved your video. If you are ever in Leiden, there is a very good Indonesian restaurant on Noordeinde. As far as I am concerned this is the finest Indonesian restaurant I've ever been to. Most of what you had on the table is not very difficult to make for yourself. In fact, a lot of Dutch people (and not just those of Surinam or Indonesian descent) make bami or nasi dishes regularly, just because they are tasty, full of meat and vegetables and quickly made to boot! I was once told that nasi (and bami?) goreng is historically whatever's leftover from last night put into the wok and mashed together. I don't care, it's delicious! ;-). Goreng is malay for 'fried'. Ajam means 'chicken', 'babi' means pork. Seroendeng is basically coconut flakes with peanuts and spices, and the crunchy bits you had on top of your bami and nasi I would reckon was fried onions.

[@realdigitalthangka]

And you even have Indonesian beer! Well done. Bintang means "Star" btw.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

There used to be a band de bintangs,

[@markschattefor6997]

@@marcusfranconium3392 Yes, kzbin.info?search_query=the+bintangs

[@hermenw.huiskamp8555]

And yes it is plain simple Heineken - the brewery plant was just rebranded to Bir Bintang

[@pietergreveling]

I think there's something lost in translation, when we call it spicy (kruidig) we think of all the different kind of spices that are used in it and not the heat level, because then we call it pittig or heet! But you should also go and eat at a Indonesian restaurant and order the rijsttafel, it's a whole different experience, it's a table full of food and the order you'll eat is from NO heat to pretty HOT! 🥵🤤😋 Have fun at the Pasar Malam! ✌🏼

[@erwinamesz7642]

Best food EVER!!! Indonesian Dutchiefied rijsttafel!!!!

[@erikje7352]

just the Indonesian Food is a reason to move over there and live happily ever after 😃

[@oseijler]

Great you are trying all ! Indonesian food is very popular!! Rice-table means rice with loads of small side dishes, not indonesian at all but invented by the colonial Dutch to show all the highlights of indonesian kitchen. The idea is take some rendang with rice (nasi goreng=fried rice) etc. etc. Kroepoek crumbled and satay-saus on the gado-gado is great!! You are great trying and liking it!!

[@TIMson888444]

Are u talking about pasar malam? U realyyyyy should go! U would love it there. Google it first because there are a few and u kinda want to visit the big events

[@oseijler]

You forgot about all the condiments, they are awesome!! Atjar ketimoen (the cucumber) and kroepoek, seroendeng (fried and spiced coconut with peanuts) and saté-saus , all with the rice 🤤

[@renevaanhold]

Dear Eric and Tammy, Thanks again for your great infotainment vlog! For Indonesian food you should really try Restaurant Blauw in Utrecht (or Amsterdam). This restaurant is also recommended by the New York Times and Lonely Planet. I loved the bloopers. Very funny. Last but not least, watch out for the sajoer boontjes. They will give you a morning after burn! 😉

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Lol!!! That’s funny, René🤣. We are glad that you enjoyed our video and the bloopers!!! Thank you for the restaurant suggestion😊

[@daring2godutch673]

This looks so yummy! I wish I would have been brave enough to try this when I was there! next time!😜

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Ha! It was lekker! Yes, next time for sure!!🥰

[@oscardeklijne1]

Ik krijg honger van deze vlog. Ik ga even naar de Toko.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Freya76]

Hey Tammy and Eric, good stuff as usual, not just the food😉 It's good to see that throughout the series Tammy is slowly but very surely taking over, you go Tammy😁👊 As good foreign food goes that you can find here make sure to try Moroccan food. Also Ethiopian (African) and Libanese. There are so many different exotic kitchens to be found in the big cities of the Netherlands, all of them worth a try. Enjoy your culinary journey 😉🥘🧆🥙🌯🌮🫔🥗🍲🍛🥡

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

HI Freya76! Thank you for your kind words💕. And thank you for your suggestions!!

[@fredk3710]

I bet this wasn't your last Indonesian meal. Good to know when ordering some dishes at an Indonesian restaurant or toko, these basic Indonesian words might be useful: "Ayam" or "ajam" means chicken, "babi" means porc, "daging" means meat, "sapi" means beef and "ikan" means fish

[@picobello99]

Goreng means fried, pangang means roasted or grilled, telor means egg and pisang means banana.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Thank you, Fred!!😊. This was definitely not our last Indonesian meal💕

[@Sjiesjam]

September there's a Huge indonesian pasar(market) in the Hague. TongTong fair. 10 days of the Best info food. And ingredient shopping.

[@Sjiesjam]

INDO FOOD

[@elsvanzwoll]

Watching this before bed And now I’m hungry 😅😂 Love your vlogs 👍🏼

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Lol! Thank you for watching us, Els!😊

[@MiguelJW]

very nice to see how you enjoy Indisch food. You were talking about Surinamese food. Surinamese can be somewhat the same because there is a Surinamese Javanese kitchen. Many Javanese used to leave for Suriname to work as contract workers in Suriname. Java is a large island in Dutch Indies/ Indonesia

[@skippynoah]

I love your food tasting video’s!! And i am glad you like the Surinam and Indonesian food. I think you both will not eat the typical Dutch things like stamppot and snert a lot as you now learned where to find this good stuff. And you might have to go so some sports as eating is very addictive 🤣.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Awww, thank you for your kind words, Sandra! We appreciate you watching us!!😊

[@Paul-H]

yes, visit pasar malam (on an empty stomach), also consider a museumkaart, you can visit 450+ museums ( 65 euro for 1 year)

[@ilco8654]

Again a nice video. For a good chinese restaurant go to Chekiang garden. It is not far from your home.

[@gerardlochmans589]

For the Chinese Cuisine ...look for a Kantonese restaurant or outtake! For my understanding the Kantonese Cuisine was the cuisine for the Chinese Emperor and his entourage! Beware there are very spicy foods in booth the Chinese and the Kantonese kitchen! I am not a local so no suggestions for where to go.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hello Gerard! Thank you for the suggestion! And, thank you for watching us!😊

[@stephenvanwijk9669]

Maoz, Nijmegen and Amsterdam. Best falafel in the universe. We love our exotic food. Thai food is also amazing. Indian. Nepalese. Several African kitchens, we have amazing Ethiopian restaurants. We also have French cuisine kitchens, Librije in Zwolle …. a bit pricy, but people fly specially to The Netherlands for de Librije, one of the best chefs in the world, 3 Michelin stars for ever now. Try Alfa pilsner, best pilsner in the world is from The Netherlands, Alfa.

[@Eitner100]

A suggestion. There is an amazing cookbook by Johannes van Dam, called De Dikke van Dam. One of the very best cookbooks ever written. I do not know how good your Dutch is, but give it a try anyway.