2010 Benelux - Germany

The dutch didn't invent pancakes, but they certainly perfected them. Pancakes are an anytime meal with almost anything on them. And as with any nearly national food everyone serves them and most places aren't spectacular. Its like going to Times Square for a slice of pie and winding up at sbarro's.

After roaming around and trying a few bombs, we finally found Amsterdam's equivalent of the soup nazi Pannekoekenhuis "upstairs". Its only open the weirdest hours up the most uninviting alley shop.

Stairway to heaven or buffalo bills?
























Gouda and tomato pancake. Amazing... then you add the syrup to send it over the top

Its really a seperate room to the guys house and like every misunderstood genius he seems to be a bit of a recluse. But for a few hours every few days he makes a living cooking these incredible things.  Most importantly they are crispy in the middle, a real rare feat for the pancake housens around. Mush centers are the norm and not good.

Broodje Haring



I don't know what to say about this. Raw herring on a bun with pickles and onions. I mean, who the hell just got so lazy they slapped raw fish on a bun and ate it.

Here is our reactions:





Yeah...

Anoher cool thing we did was went out to Kinderdijk and checked out the windmills there. I shot a little video of them, they were in full force. Sort of randomly we also wandered into Delfthaven near Den Hague that day, and it turns out we are in the harbor the pilgrims left from. TBH it was sorta run down, and we would have never known had we not read some rusted out sign.