Our Perfect Day (Gone Wrong?) in Düsseldorf, Germany 🇩🇪
In this episode, Michelle and Alex spend the day eating their way through Düsseldorf, Germany, trying everything from altbier, currywurst, and Japanese fried food, to German bakery classics like a puddingbrezel and mohnschnecken, before an unfortunate incident involving an XXL rotewurst.
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0:00 Introduction
0:35 Schlüssel Altbier and a Halve Hahn
2:20 Beer for breakfast
3:10 Bäckerei Hinkel
4:56 Puddingbrezel
5:50 Mohnschnecken
6:56 Art in public toilets?!
8:07 Königsallee and Little Tokyo
8:46 A giant gachapon store!
10:48 This is not what we expected
12:11 Why are we in Düsseldorf?
13:08 Carlsplatz (food market)
14:13 Schinken Toni (German snackbar)
14:58 Düsseldorfer currywurst?
15:43 XXL rote wurst
16:26 Menchi katsu (and the incident)
18:04 The incident gets worse
18:38 She’s a hot dog girl
19:07 We’re suckers
19:30 Our impressions of Düsseldorf
20:09 Wrap up
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39 Comments
i think the "currywurst" they gave us at the snackbar was actually a "düsseldorfer rot wurst" 🥲 womp womp
Please visit Köln 🙂 Thank you😁
Van Go? VAN GO? You pronounce Gouda correctly but then screw up Van Gogh? 😂
Düsseldorf airport is also great to fly to certain destinations, it's often cheaper than Schiphol. 👌
Next trip: Munster Germany. 45 minutes from the dutch border.
Well, at least you are getting more and more Dutch, complaining about the price of an idiotic Japanese 'treat'. I mean, you can't beat the Efteling for that egg 3 eggs, compared to the ones in the ones in Düsseldorf? 🎉
The innuendos 🤣
Sorry, ich musste meinen Senf dazugeben!
Schlüssel is NOT Düsseldorfs oldest brewery. That would be Schumacher.
Over 30 years ago, I went to a Japanese restaurant in Düsseldorf where the chefs sliced and prepared everything right at the table—it was really impressive!🤯
Aken(Aachen) or keulen( köln ) or wuppertal , a little of drive Munster But Alex why not start a poll
haha I like how Michelle eats the bratwurst 😅 oooo man 😂😂😂
Koblenz, you won't be bored. As for the food, I don't know; it's up to you to figure that out yourself.
That has got to be one of the great benefits of living in Europe. A quick train trip of a couple of hours and your in a completely different country with it's own language, architecture, culture and food scene. Here in the states it's drive 10 hours and all you get is a different McDs on a fast food and retail stroad that looks exactly like the one in your town.
Where are all the japanese and sushi restaurants?
Was looking for a new suitcase, but that is well out my price range. The discount I got that is normally my price range 😅
Morning beer!? My kinda girl😉Those suitlegscases sorry i was distracted looks real great. Whats with the sausage XXL ? is the bun to small the sausage to big ? Yes well , if you wave your sausage all around , your sauce will fly Alex ! Fun Vid🌷🌷🌷
I already had dinner but now i'm hungry again 😅
Visit the border city of Kleve 🥰.
I was already pretty convinced that swaffeling enough will lead to Michelle getting stuff on her. 😈
As for next German places to visit… Cologne has one of the best Gothic cathedrals, and another top-fermented local specialty beer (Kölsch = from Cologne), this time it is pale yellow, though. Not sure about special food, tbh, but is not really that much further away.
Münster would be an excellent choice to go for the Christmas market(s), I saw someone else already recommend the city in general.
And no real clue where to go in Germany for something special in terms of food; most places I know about are either very similar to NL (e.g. Münster) or you've already been (München & Berlin).
Dusseldorf's best sushi ever eaten.
It was full of Japanese people.
You should really visit Aken("Aachen" in German)!
Visit the cathedral, one of the oldest churches in Germany and a UNESCO world heritage site! It originated from the Palatine Chapel, the court chapel of Charlemagne (Karel de Grote).
The chapel was built between 790 and 800! It is decorated with extensive mosaics, very impressive! Very beautiful!
Even if you're not very interested in cultural things, this is a must see! It will bedazzle you! I came to Aken for the Christmas market, but I stayed for the mosaics!😄
Charlemagne’s throne is also on display, though it was a bit underwhelming. I believe the decorations fell off or were looted over the centuries, so you kind of have to use your imagination.
Furthermore, Aken features natural hot springs that have been used by Celts, Germanics, Romans, etc. for over 2,000 years because they believed the water had healing properties.
Charlemagne loved these beneficial hot springs so much that his palace in Aken became his favorite place to stay. From the 17th century onwards, Aken grew into one of Europe's most famous spa towns. High-society celebs from all over Europe, such as Tsar Peter the Great, composer George Frideric Handel, Empress Joséphine (Napoleon's wife) and Casanova, came to Aken's bathhouses to relieve their aches and pains.
Today, Aken is still a well-known spa destination.
Personally, I loved Carolus Thermen!
Okay, blah blah blah…
and you can also get amazing food in Aken!😉
Try some cake in the cute Aachener Café Haus!
TLDR: Visit Aken for the cathedral, wellness culture and food!
It’s not sesame, it’s poppy seed ..
Can't Alex swaffel his currywurst without spilling all over Michelle?
Come visit Nürnberg. We could get together.
Full disclosure: I’m a former American citizen, naturalized German. Been in the country since 1999 and in Nürnberg since 2007
Next German city to visit could be Köln
Obvious German cities to visit would be Hamburg, Cologne or Stuttgart, but maybe Freiburg, Wuppertal or Würzburg? Kassel or Koblenz? Or the double whammy of the (allegedly) ugliest city in Germany and it's transriverine cousin: Ludwigshafen am Rhein & Mannheim?
Mustardgate got Michelle a nicer jean jacket!
I was going to post to warn Michelle about the mustard, but I see it was a Chekhov's Mustard situation so not needed. It is kinda impressive how it went from the sleeve to everywhere in such a short time though.
2:28 ….. Rotterdam Bau ? (On the right in the vid) …. the Dutch are everywhere 😂😂
Next up, obviously, should be Düsseldorf's rival city Cologne.
I always heard the story that the guy walked into a bar and asked "kann ich noch ne halve han?" which means "can I have another half one"?
in which case "halve han" translates to "have half". which doesn't entirely make sense in German, but that's the legend. or one of them.
no Dianna and Phill collab? 😛
5 or 6 euro die 1 gachapon. Thats pure robbery !!!
Been to Düsseldorf a few years back. Visited the Altstadt, went up the big tower, had some ramen and visited a modern art museum. Great city for a daytrip although you can easily spend a couple of days.
Düsseldorf is the city in DE with the most Japanese inhabitants.
nice visit, my mom was German and her parents too and the sweet treats from the bakery every day for tea was the highlight of my summer visiting my grandparent.and yes like many said already different seeds 😉 Fleischwurst was a thing in our house and leberwurst on sourdough
4:12 my style are the left ones 👀🤣
did you watch the Diana & Phil videos? They live in Düsseldorf and have a similar channel but Germany focussed.
Freiburg is worth a visit. For food go to Sankt Valentin , just outside the city. Hörnusgrinde in the of the north Black forest is a must visit. Close to Strasbourg in the French Alsace area. We visited that area last year
pretzel means the shape