Stroop Wafels
Have you ever doubted the truffes and foie gras being the most delicious dainties in the world? Might not we appreciate something we're more used to eating? I guess we each have certain taste we just can't let go of, although it's not that delicious nor gorgeous when seen objectively. I think taste is strongly related to the environment you enjoy the food and if you are anxious about certain taste, you might be trying to relive the enjoyable time in the past. This is why I set a goal "To learn a new taste I'll be crazy for the rest of my life" during my traineeship in India.
Well, taking curry every meal was more or less my eating habit back then (Oh yeah, I bet the film "Super Size Me?" wouldn't surprize the Indians) and yet even the Shahi Paneer -my favorite Indian curry-didn't seem "the taste". For over a year now I was lost and wondering what the taste would be that strongly triggers my experience in India until today I ate the stroop wafels brought back from the Netherlands by my sister. In Delhi I shared a flat with 2 trainees both from the Netherlands and one of them had brought these wafels from home. The stroop wafels aren't the best sweets in the world but it suddenly reminded me so many things that happend in our flat in Lajpat Nagar, Delhi. And I understood this was why I anxiously asked my sister to get it for me. Never imagined it would be something outside India.
8 Comments:
coffee??..before I stayed in Japan I never can imagine what coffee taste ;p. Starbucks at shonandai station has made me addicted with coffee. -Adi-
Eh? Are you telling me there isn't a single cofee shop like it in Indonesia? Starbucks are good,though what they serve isn't really coffee in my opinion.
I LOVE stroop wafels... it's like a religious ritual for me each time I go to Schiphol airport before boarding the train to buy some. :)
Till now I have only tried those non-spicy Indian food. And to be honest, they are not bad...hehe
Glad to connect with u again, Dear Chako!!!:-)
Nice to have some guests visiting my weblog..hi to Devrim and Vega!! A ritual-I think I fully understand how you feel about stroop wafels. I really do enjoy Indian food as well but I still feel emotionally foreign about India and the times spent with Dutch flat mates were priceless.
stroop waffels ... the super-cheap supermarket here in germany started to sell them recently and, yes, they are fantastic.
but you guys know that the correct way to enjoy them is to place them on top of a hot mug of coffee/tea/milk/whatever for some time until the creamy/honeylike stuff inside slowly starts to melt? the taste then is absolutely mindblowing :)
I know, those wafels are 10 times better when heated.
So what is Thomas doing here? Great to hear from you!! "Did you know that Japanese people are even less physically affectionate than Germans?"
on your blog is an interesting discussion.Let me know if you ever feel like coming back to the country of "taxi drivers in white gloves"...I love that
one^^
ya, we have coffee shop here but I never like coffee even drink it when I'm in Indonesia before..strange isn't it? but it's happen..now I'm wondering what kind of taste your wafel is. Now I enjoying belgium chocolate from my trainee, before I thought every chocolate are same but maybe now I can change it ;p
-Adi-
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