Mostly Delicious Food In Amsterdam

I liked trying new foods in Amsterdam.

A box of the best chocolate sprinkles I ever tasted

They had chocolate sprinkles, called chocoladehagelslag. We call them "jimmies" at home. Chocoladehagelslag actually taste like chocolate. At home, jimmies are just waxy sugar sprinkles colored brown. Dutch people eat chocoladehagelslag on toast for breakfast. I liked that!

Also at breakfast, I tried yummy white cheese, whose flavor I can't describe. I call it "pepper cheese" in my head because I never found out its real name. It looks like it has bits of ground pepper in it. The Dutch eat this cheese on toast, too (although not with chocolate sprinkles!)

I enjoyed cookies called stroopwaffles. The "waffle" part is  
a thin sugar cookie made on a waffle iron. Then two waffles are squished together with a layer of caramel.  We always had some with us because they were easy to carry around and they made a good snack!

We wanted to try black licorice because we had heard it was good. When we finally found some in a grocery store, we thought, "Let's buy it!" It tasted like gummy molasses without the sugar. We were disappointed. I didn't like it that much. Neither did Kayla, Mommy, or Joy. Daddy didn't even try it! 

Delicious Dutch chocolates

On the other hand, Dutch chocolates are good--very good. In one chocolate shop, they served us our chocolates on little plates, and we sat down at a cafe table to eat them. Mommy drank an espresso with her chocolates. Joy and I had milk with ours. I had one that was flavored with green tea and lemongrass, and another that was chocolate and cinnamon. A lot of the chocolates I wanted to try had alcohol in them, though, so I couldn't eat them!  

More delicious Dutch chocolates

Lots of places sold a chocolate milk called Chocomel. That's yummy, too! It makes a good pick-me-up whenever you get tired. I had it at Keukenhof Gardens, Vondel Park, and with lunch while out and about. 

One night, we ate vlaamse frites -- Dutch for French fries -- for dinner! We had them with mayonnaise and Andalouse sauce, which is made with mayonnaise, ketchup or tomato paste, and spicy paprika. It was a good picnic dinner to eat along one of Amsterdam's many canals.

A Good Day at Keukenhof

Mommy, Daddy, Joy (my little sister), Kayla, and I took a bus to the famous Keukenhof gardens. To get to the bus stop, we had to take another bus! The line for the Keukenhof bus was so long that by the time we boarded it, there was almost no space left. Joy and I got to sit down, but not Mommy and Daddy. Lucky for the people who did not make it onto our crowded bus (but unlucky for us), another bus came around the corner for them. Oh well. If Mommy and Daddy hadn't made us rush, all of us would have gotten seats.

One of the interesting flowers in the greenhouse

Surprisingly, the first thing we did when we arrived was not to go look at the flowers, it was to get something to eat! I got a cranberry and white chocolate cookie, and Mommy and Joy shared an almond pastry called a Gevulde Koek.

Then we went to explore the gardens. I was hoping for postcard-quality fields of tulips, but when we saw them, we saw lots of green. Darn. We were visiting too early in the season. Next, we went inside a greenhouse where there were so many different, interesting, colorful flowers that we decided that that was our amazing tulip fields.    

Me, jumping on the zipline

I realized the map showed a playground. Hurray! Hurray! I love playgrounds! We had to go there. The European ones are usually more challenging (and more fun) than the American ones. This one had ropes to climb on, bars to dangle from, and a zipline you sit on to ride. Climbing around on the ropes made me feel like I was on top of the world.

The bus ride back to Amsterdam was less crowded than the one we took to get to the gardens, so that meant everyone in my family got seats. That was good because after walking around for the whole day, we needed to sit down!