BELGIAN FOOD TOUR! (First Time in Brussels, Belgium)

Those mossles were most likely cought in the Westerschelde Zeeland the Netherlands. Waterzooi was probebly the most and best Belgium thing to choose after chocolate. Its probebly personal preference but as a Dutch tourist I did not like Brussels, Gent or Brugge were so much more beautiful to me. (And a long drive for you 2 I understand) for a next country/city might I suggest Luxemburg? And plz do a oktoberfest special that stuff works great for the views of your channel.

For the mussels, we often use 1 shell as kind of a tweezer thing to get the other mussels out of their shell and eat them like that. So no fork used then

If you like Brussels you are going to love Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, Dinant, Liege,

brussels is not really like the rest of the country, not flemish and more so but mostly not waloon either, it was initially a dutch speaking city, the frenchifcation and it's bilingual status is still a point of contestation

You just ate a Brussels waffle it's lighter than the Liège waffle which is heavy and more sugar. Salted waffle are just for tourists.

This is perfect timing, wife and I are planning a trip there next year!

It is awlays fun to see an outside perspective on stuff that is common or normal to you. I'm glad you guys enjoyed the stay and culinairy discovery.

Yes, the term "french fries" is very misleading and has to do with WW1 where the elite and higher ranking officers would speak french.
'Belgian fries' would be a more accurate and proper term imo.

Concerning the wafflestory or fries joint, these friendly looking people in the video ate at.. well, these are tourist points, targetted at tourists 🙂 I'll keep it at that.

Be aware of fries joints that deliver the fries too fast with longer wait-lines, it might mean that the fries are not fried properly.

'Brasserie' is a french word and indeed means 'brewery', but typically we see it as a place where one can both eat and drink, either fulls meals or pasteries or snacks or just only drinks. Not like a bar, not like a restaurant, but something in between.

That was not Waterzooi. What you had there was Vol-au-vent with the typical pastery.
(Waterzooi is more like a soup-meal dish. water- = water, -zooi = mess => a bunch of ingredients/tuff thrown into water simply speaking)

"Les moules" are indeed cooked in the pot, together with the greens (which should cook a little before hand in the pot). The mussels are most likely not from the Belgian coast, most are imported from Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, which is just across the border with the Netherlands. The dish itself is Belgian though.

I'm glad you enjoyed visiting my country 🙂

Dutch food? As a Belgian living in the netherlands for over 5 years i can fill books about the differences.

If no one’s said it yet, some of the best Liège waffles in Brussels come from those random yellow vans around the city. Very reasonably priced as well. 🧇

Brussels waffles are traaaash and just vessels for toppings. Liège waffles can stand on their own!

The best waffles I've ever had in my life in Brussels were sold from these yellow-brown VW Bulli vans parked at every street corner…You should have gone there (if these still exist)! That place you went to (12 Euros for a waffle??) looks like a typical overhyped hipster tourist trap…(i.e. making simple food overly complicated and thus pricey)

Do not eat closed mussels!! You can get food poisening