Ajam Opor – Indonesian style braised chicken in coconut milk

Ajam Tjampoer – Indonesian style pickled vegetables

Babi pangang - Indonesian style roast pork (though of Chinese origin)

Bami Goreng – fried noodles with meat and vegetables

Bitterbal – as kroket, but ball shaped

Broodje – bread roll

Gado gado – bleached vegetables with a peanut sauce

Huzarensalade – traditional Dutch potato and meat salad

Kroket – meat croquette, filled with a rich veloute sauce and meat (usually veal)

Nasi – rice

Nasi Goreng – fried rice with meat and vegetables

Nasi Kuning – yellow rice with meat and vegetables

Nasi ramas – boiled rice with meat and vegetables

Poffertjes – mini pancakes served with icing sugar and butter

Rijsttafel – rice table, plain rice with a selection of Indonesian dishes

Roti – Surinam pancake, plain or with a filling of potato or dhal, usually served with potatoes and green beans and some kind of curried meat (usually chicken)

Sajoeran harian – Indonesian vegetable dish of the day.

Sate – marinated chicken or pork (occasionally with beef or goat) skewered and roasted and served with spicy peanut sauce.

Schnitzel – veal or pork escalope

Shorma – Doner kabab or Shawarma

Soto – Indonesian soup dish

Tjap tjoi – Chop Suey

Uitsmijter – ham or roast beef and fried eggs served on a slice of bread.

 

Horse meat is eaten in Holland and specialist horse meat butchers are quite common.

Sea Food is widely available in specialist shops and street stalls.

Mussels are popular in season with restaurants doing "all you can eat" deals.

Wholemeal bread and other dark varieties outsell white bread.

Salted liquorice sweets ("drop") are enormously popular and come in many varieties.

Dutch Beer is world famous. It’s cheap and plentiful in supermarkets, crates containing 24 bottles are often taken home.

Holland’s favorite strong drink is Dutch gin ("jenever"), which is made from distilled malt wine and juniper berries (borrel) a small glass of jonge jenever.

Cakes and pastries containing marzipan and almonds are popular at Christmas.

"Oliebollen" are a type of spicy doughnut traditionally eaten on New Year’s Eve. Mobile shops making and selling them appear in late autumn.

Bar snacks include a plate of borrelhapjes – kroketten (meat or shrimp croquettes) or bitterballen, meatballs coated with breadcrumbs, deep fried and served with mustard. Satay sticks met pinder saus – pieces of meat with either pork or chicken served with hot and spicy peanut butter sauce.

Ontbijtkoek or peperkoek is a healthy cake often eaten with butter for breakfast.

Croissants sold with cheese, ham, liver, shrimp, smoked eel, steak tartare (raw spiced meat, minced) salad or herring

Capucijners: A winter dish, beans (similar to chick peas) cooked with onions, bacon and potatoes.

Blote Billetjes in het groene gras: (naked bottoms in the green grass) A combination of beans sereved with smoked sausages

Erwten soep: Old-fashioned split pea soup ‘ à la Hollandiase’ with pieces of fat bacon ... a typical winter dish and a meal in itself.

Stroopwafel – 2 thin wafers sandwiched together with syrup served warm.

Appelgebak – (appel pie) made with special rum soaked raisons and apples and cinnamon topped with warm cream

Quail, partridge, pheasant, hare and rabbit all popular winter dishes, mostly cooked in beer, wine or cognac.

Surinam hearty curries with roti bread

Chicory and ham baked with cheese

White asparagus served with ham and chopped egg (in May and June)

Boerenkool – stampot met worst (cabbage mashed with potatoes and served with smoked sausage or rookworst

 

Kruidkoek: (pain d"epices, anise flavoured cakes and biscuits) is a speciality of Friesland but can be purchased throughout the land.

Suikerbrood: also from Friesland, a wonderful sugar cake, eaten mainly at breakfast.

Blauwvingers: (blue fingers) come from Zwolle. These cookes with nuts are shaped in the form of ladyfingers.

Arnhemse meisjes: from Arnhem: literal translation, ‘Arnhem girls’ .

Sprits: come from Utrecht, a small butter biscuit

Stroopwafels: are a speciality of Gouda. Unusual cookes made in a waffle patterened mold filled with a light sugar syrup

Vlaaien: are from Limburg and the south. These open-faced tarts are usually filled with seasonal fruits, apricot and cherry are favourites.

Korstjes: come from Eindhoven area, another version of the aniseed flavoured cookie.

Speculaas: These are available throught the country and come in small crunchy varieties as well as the 4 or 5 foot tall cookies, made in the form of Saint Nicholas during the holiday season, a lovely rich spicy flavour and delicious.

Hopjes, Dropjes and Zuurtjes: There are special stores that sell only hard sweets that come in all shapes, colours and flavours. The most famous are perhaps the Haagsche hopjes made by Raademakers in The Hague, cofee flavoured hard sweets. Dropjes come in varying shades of black from light grey to pitch black and are based on liqorice flavouring. Zuurtjes are the rest of the hard sweets and come in all colours, including stripes and in all flavours, the fruit flavoured ones are especially popular, called from the zuurtjes.

Muisjes and Hagelslag: Muisjes are anise flavoured and Hagelslag is a chocolate flavoured grain-like topping. The Dutch children sprinkle them on bread, in yoghurt etc.

Restaurants selling Dutch cuisine in Amsterdam is Dorrius, Haesje Claes, De Blaauwe Hollander, De Poort ( Hotel Die Poort van Cleve)

Menus consists of: ‘Hutspot’ met Klapstuk (Hotchpotch of meat with mashed carrots and potatoes. ‘Stampot’ van Zuurkool en worst’ (sauerkraut mashed with potatoes and sausage).

Traditional recipe – ‘Jachtschotel’ (Hunters Dish) made with stewed venison covered with mashed potato, topped with slices of apple and breadcrumbs and served with red cabbage.

Fowl accompanied by appel sauce or ‘stoofpeertjes’ (little stewing pears cooked in red wine and cinnamon) or red current sauce.

Sweet Pancakes – Crepe Bresillienes, filled with ice-cream coated with a warm chocolate and half coffee sauce. Pancakes also topped with Grand Marnier, strawberries or chocolate sauce and whipped cream or syrup.

Savoury Pancakes – topped with meat, tomato, cheese or mushroom ragout, egg and bacon.

Poffetjes – small pancake balls filled with cream, served warm with sprinkled sugar

Toco bar – Indonesian take away food and speciality spice and herb store.

Snack-bars are found everywhere selling all kinds of filled rolls and deep-fried snacks . Most notable of these is the "kroket" which is a kind of meat ragout, coated in bread crumbs and deep fried. Chips (patat or french fries) are popular and served with mayonnaise. Visitors are often surprised by the coin operated food dispensers found in snack bars. They consist of many small compartments with glass doors which open when a coin is inserted.

Restaurants selling Indonesian and Chinese food are found all over Holland and a take-away meal is a popular choice. Vietnamese street vendors are also a common sight selling "loempias" a kind of spring roll.

A popular late night take-away snack is the "shoarma". This is a kind of middle-eastern kebab which consists of highly spiced meat served with salad and hot sauce, garlic or tomato sauce in a pita bread roll.