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 travel planning. It has been almost one year since we started our European journey (June 2014), driving cross-country in “Homer” our beloved RV. We’ve grown …
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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 claiming to be multi-ethnic (two or more races), in Hawaii you’ll find many groups adding their own variety of culture to our local way of …
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 you to be creative. Jaf and Lou Lou, if you haven’t guessed, are Multicultural. I, their Mom am Hawaiian and their father Lebanese, which automatically …
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 still are. During our recent visit to the Netherlands, we visited cheese factories in Edam and Volendam where we ate “mild and creamy” cheese to …
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 an extremely popular snack with the Dutch and Belgians. Usually served in paper cones and topped with mayonnaise you can find it practically everywhere you …
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 was when we saw adults eating bread with sprinkles in mid-day during lunch. Who eats bread with sprinkles??! I guess all Dutch people do! All …
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 addicted. Thankfully, this delightful dessert or mid-day snack is available at many restaurants, amusements parks and cafes throughout the Netherlands so we ordered it frequently …
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 been warned. The Dutch “drop” are sold in many shapes, sizes and varieties. Ranging from soft, sweet and salty to just plain awful (like the …
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 meal from Suriname, a small country in South America. We were happy to have been invited and gladly accepted the invitation. We took a 2-hour …
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. Herring, a small, oily, stinky fish found in the North Alantic and North Pacific oceans is known to have been traded by the Dutch at …
