The Royal Palace was full of antique furnitures and arts. Like the museum I visited on Day 2, I spent several hours to observe the exhibitions; I needed to stay in queune for some rooms/decorations in restricted areas due to some safety reasons (they are used by the Royal familiy when they have some national guests and it should be kept safe).
The result: I really enjoyed the palace but starved when I left. The lunch time came.
Traditional pancake
It’s quite new knowledge for me to learn that a pancake originates in the Netherlands. Technically, the pancake-like food has been popular in Europe since the ancient Roman time, but the Dutch elevated it to its traditional cuisine called “pannenkoek”. Immigrants brought the pannenkoek on their way to America, and it was shaped to the one we see as an American pancake at present.
If I hear the word “pancake”, I would rather think it is a sweat American one; it’s too sugary and sweetened. I’d visited a Hawaiian pancake café in Japan and had the café’s specialty, a pancake with strawberry jam topped with whipped cream, which I had to swallow into my stomach with a cup of non-sugar plain coffee. This is the pancake to me.
I wanted to try the Dutch traditional foods, so I dropped by a café specializing the Dutch pancake for my lunch. I was quite hungry after I kept walking long inside the Royal Palace, so I wanted something salty with a glass of beer. I ordered the one with grilled bacon and cheese with Heineken then.
The Dutch pancake is different from what I’d known for years. The pancake to which I’ve been used is small and thick, but this Dutch one was huge and thin.
First bite: Yummy! It went well with Heineken.
Second, third, fourth…OK! Tasty.
But…, when I finished half of the pancake, I was almost full….
In my food custom, I wouldn’t like to leave the leftover: I think many Japanese folks may be by my side for such a fact as Parents in Japan will educate us to eat everything served with no leftover for showing appreciation to foods per se and those who cooked. I’m accustomed to this parental education even today….
I therefore decided to eat the whole thing by taking some rest in between instead of chocolate sauce. Heineken was a great partner for doing so…
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