The one activity that brings our family closer and binds us together is travel. Visiting different cities, countries and exploring different cultures through food brings excitement and joy to our […]
Take Your Child On A Food Tour
We’re lucky. Our children were born and raised in Hawaii, the most racially diverse state in the United States as there is no real majority. With 23% of Hawaii residents […]
How to Turn Your Kids Into Foodies
Trying different cuisines is like picking different colors of clothes from your closet. It gives you a sense of novelty, adventure, and it opens your eyes to something new allowing […]
How to Introduce Smelly Cheese to your Kids!
From a very young age, Jaf and Lou Lou have always loved cheese. Laughing cow (those famous round babies with the red wax) and string cheeses were their favorites, and […]
Frieten, Frites, French Fries or Patat?
Whatever you call it, we’ve been eating this daily during our visits to the Netherlands and Brussels. Frites (let’s just call it this since we’ve gotten used to it), is […]
Move Over Sprinkles!!
There’s a new bad boy in the house, HAGELSLAG! Whoever said sprinkles were only for kids, cupcakes and ice cream were so wrong. The thing that freaked the kids out […]
More Poffertjes Please!
We had to write a separate blog post about this special dessert item. Since we’ve been introduced to this mouth-watering mini pancakes by our friends at Hungry Birds, we’ve been […]
Dutch Licorice: Why Kids Should Try Them
Dutch Licorice or “drop” is a popular snack item in the Netherlands. If you’ve ever heard the phrase; Never trust a Dutch person offering you a Dutch “candy”, you have […]
Tasting Suriname
While in the Netherlands we managed to meet up with a friend who we knew from Dubai 20 years ago. She invited us to her home to have a traditional […]
Dutch Herring… Only for the Brave!
Continuing on from our food tour in Amsterdam with Hungry Birds we visited Vishuisje Herengracht in Central Amsterdam to try a dish the Dutch people have a love affair with. […]