From June…
The Hague
Good eats (Or: Rrrollend Foodtruck festival returns)
Rrrollend Foodtruck festival returned to the Malieveld this weekend.
Last year I went with Roll or bowl, whereas this year I went Indian, having chicken curry with rice at Indian Roast.
Haagse Wereld Hapjes (Or: Bites of the world)
At the end of June Marco and I went to the Haagse Wereld Hapjes food festival at the Lange Voorhout. That translates to something like ‘Bites of the world, from The Hague’. It featured 25 different restaurants based in The Hague or surrounding area, with cuisines ranging from Persian to Argentinian to Slovakian.
The one restaurant that caught my eye was Pops, an American restaurant over in nearby Wassenaar. They really outdid themselves with their decorations:
A look at the overall area:
And, of course – you need entertainment with your food:
It was a fun experience and a great initiative by the city!
Celebrating Thailand (Or: Thailand Grand Festival in The Hague)
At the beginning of the month Marco and I went to the Thailand Grand Festival (Dutch) in the Plein. The highlight was definitely the culinary options – more than half of the festival was taken up by food tents. And everything looked so delicious! But they also had music and dance performances as well.
We ended up going only a few minutes after they opened, but it was already pretty busy. I ended up taking photos from a distance because it was so crowded in the area where the festival was happening.
If only the weather today was as good as that day — today it was just rain, rain, rain. And more rain. Welcome to the Netherlands! 🙂 (just kidding)
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Blocks of color (Or: Mondriaan inspired art at The Hague’s train station)
Last month a group of friends and I went to Rotterdam for a WWE wrestling show at Ahoy in Rotterdam (I always have to resist the subconscious urge to call the the place ‘Chips Ahoy‘ after the cookie).
While waiting for a few friends getting coffee at Starbucks I took a photo of the Mondriaan inspired art at the train station; Den Haag Centraal.
And I still love the roof. Which looks even more awesome on a cloudy day.
Where are you? (Or: Grandcafé Haagse Bluf)
Here’s a random photo I took while out walking early one morning last month:
The text reads “Where are you?? At the most beautiful terrace in The Hague!” This is Grandcafé Haagse Bluf, part of the Haagse Bluf upscale shopping area.
And, yet another iced cappuccino and iced chai latte at Hometown coffee.
What can I say… except that they are delicious!
Stroopwafels in Indy (Or: At least my parents have a backup plan!)
Another post about “things that remind me of home in America” – this time Belgian stroopwafels (syrup waffles). This was spotted at a local Walmart I believe. Stroopwafels! Take your pick from original on the left or chocolate covered on the right.
As always, in their original form stroopwafels are great to place over your coffee cup to slowly heat them. Although these minis would probably only fit over an expresso cup… If you don’t drink coffee, try heating them in the microwave in 5 second bursts.
And the chocolate ones are just good all the time.
My last three posts including this one have definitely had a very Belgian theme (the Wafels & Dinges stand in Central Park, the Lotus cookies, which is headquartered in Belgium, and this post). Although at least these bags do label them as “Dutch caramel waffles”.
Check out the story of the founding of the Belgian boys company.
But as the title of this blog post suggests, at least my parents have a backup plan if their stroopwafel supply runs lower. (They were on the lowest shelf in the granola bars section, guys!)
De Bieb! (Or: Not a library, but a bar)
Near where the old central library used to be you can find a bar that goes by the name “De Bieb“. Bieb is a shortened, slang version of bibliotheek, or library in English. I knew I had to go there when a colleague told me that the bar had black cherry beer!
My black cherry beer is on the left (Liefmans Kriek). It’s a beer from Belgium, and awesomely sour. Not something you would normally associate with a beer. Marco had a “Funky Falcon” which combines lemongrass, lemon, caramel and more. He let me have a sip – it was quite tasty.
Flowers at Hobbemaplein (Or: A hint of summer)
Hobbemaplein in May – an area of The Hague known for its market (one of the largest open air markets in Europe, so they say!).
And a close up of the flowers:
Self-serve! (Or: Starbucks at the movie theatre)
Earlier in the month we saw Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2. Great movie! While there I was able to check out the new coffee options, as the Pathé movie theatre by Spui now has self-service Starbucks coffee.
Apparently it’s been around for a few months but this is the first movie I had seen since they installed it.
Of course you don’t have all of the options you would with a full-service Starbucks, but it is still some nice coffee, especially when viewing a movie in the morning!
Life in the Hague 