Posts Tagged With: Food trucks

Cotton candy ice cream burrito (Or: You heard me right)

Posted on August 20, 2023 by Niki

Today was the last day of the Rrrollend food truck festival in The Hague. Marco and I went with his mother. Here is the craziest thing Marco spotted, although we weren’t crazy enough to try it ourselves:

That is a cotton candy and ice cream dessert burrito. My teeth hurt just thinking about it!

Marco’s mom had a meat pie while Marco had a katsu sando. That’s a Japanese sandwich with fried pork cutlets placed between white bread. You can also add lettuce and other condiments. Marco added pineapple reaper, a pretty spicy hot sauce. An earlier post I wrote about a restaurant called Umami has a photo of a katsu sando (see the last image in the post). And at Rrrollend I had a falafel pita. No photo though. It was messy but delicious.

Mom/Dad: We saw a stand selling Philly cheese steaks and we thought of you (I think that is what you guys bought at Smorgasburg).

After Rrrollend we went to the nearby Plein for another drink. I had a frozen cappuccino:

It was really good. Or as I told Marco and his mom: the drink was verdomde lekker! or stupidly tasty. It being served in a pretty glass helps as well of course.

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Rrrollend food truck festival (Or: Enjoying the sun)

Posted on May 22, 2023 by Niki

We finally have some good weather here in the Netherlands! Unfortunately “good weather” in this case is about 19-20C, or 64-68F. But we take what we can get.

This past weekend was the Rrrollend food truck festival, this time by the Hofvijver. I am not sure if this is the first time that it was held there; usually it is at the Lange Voorhout or by Maliveld. People were enjoying the weather. Some were even sitting by the water, although maybe that was just to find a good seat — it was pretty crowded there after all. But dangling your legs over the water is a nice way to enjoy the sun.

A few weeks earlier Marco and I were at Anne & Max, a (chain) café found throughout the Netherlands. Check out the cool pattern on the cappuccino:

The cake in the background was a lime cake, but it was a bit drier than expected. It was still a fun time with Marco, though.

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Food truck festivals (And: News from The Netherlands)

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Niki

Good news – the food truck festival Rrrollend is coming back for a special winter edition from March 1 to March 5 at the Lange Voorhout. Official website in Dutch. Indebuurt.nl (also in Dutch, it means “in the neighborhood” reports that the winter edition means they will be selling glühwein (mulled wine) and hot chocolate. Yum. Rrrollend will also be back in The Hague in Mid-May (at the Hofvijver) and in mid-August (at the Lange Voorhout).

Above is the shaved ice cream Marco and I enjoyed back in 2019.

In other news, The Hague’s public transportation company will stop selling HTM bicycles in The Hague on February 1 (official website in English) due to low demand. Most people use the NS train company’s bicycles instead. The bikes will be moved to Zoetermeer, a suburb of The Hague, where the demand for them is higher.

The cool event in Scheveningen is open for one more week (the last day is the 22nd). You can go ice skating or view ice sculptures. Official website in Dutch.

If you want to travel to Utrecht, you can also visit the I Light U light festival going on through January 29. The artwork is all in the neighborhood of the main train station. Official website in English.

And finally, we had some pretty strong winds last Thursday. Some planes were asked to use a runway at Schiphol airport that is not normally in use (the Oostbaan, or East runway) but one plane arriving from Detroit still managed to land the plane just short of the runway. Although to be honest I don’t know how much you would feel that as a passenger. See also dutchreview.com in English.

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Rolled up ice cream (Or: Rrrollend food truck festival)

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Niki

It’s that time of year again! The Rrrollend food truck festival has returned to The Hague. Today was the last day, although they will be back at Lange Voorhout from August 9th to the 11th.

The highlight of this excursion this time around was the rolled up ice cream (Wikipedia), which I have never had before. The food truck was manned by a team out of Rotterdam (Facebook). It is a semi-solid ice cream made of cream, milk and sugar. The trick is that it is placed on a cold surface (chilled to -20 degrees) while it is being worked on. Check out this photo from the Wikipedia page:

Photo from Wikipedia user Thomson200 

Once frozen, you can roll up the ice cream as shown above.

Our mango mix rolled up ice cream from Friday
Today’s forest fruit rolled up ice cream. The rolling up didn’t go as well, but it was just as delicious!
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Good eats (Or: Rrrollend Foodtruck festival returns)

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Niki

Rrrollend Foodtruck festival returned to the Malieveld this weekend.

Foodtruck Festival Rrrollend, Malieveld in The Hague

Last year I went with Roll or bowl, whereas this year I went Indian, having chicken curry with rice at Indian Roast.

Chicken curry with rice, Indian Roast

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Summer eating (Or: Rrrollend Food truck festival by Malieveld, The Hague)

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Niki

Yesterday Marco, Roger and I saw Suicide Squad at the local IMAX movie theatre (Pathé Spuimarkt). Afterwards we visited the Rrrollend Food truck festival by Malieveld, close to Centraal Station.

And what delicious food! Here’s a look at some of the photos I took. First, a look at my Asian Chicken bowl from Roll or Bowl:

Asian chicken by Roll or Bowl (Den Haag food truck festival) Continue reading →

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