The Holland-Belgium House in Pattaya
The number of Dutch and Belgian restaurants in Pattaya is already quite large, I estimate that there are more than 30 such establishments.
Most of these are located in the center of Pattaya and Jomtien, but the number in the "Dark Side of Pattaya" (east of Sukhumvit Road) seems to be increasing. One of them is the Holland-België Huis and the English-language newspaper “Pattaya People” recently wrote the following review about this restaurant/pension:
“This week we went to Soi Nern Plab Wam in search of the very popular Holland-België Huis, which is located in side street 5 (from the railway line) opposite the now defunct Chenrong market.
It is a simple and unassuming restaurant annex guest house, which has been run by Khun Jane and her young son Richard for the last three years. It all looks neat, the interior is not the height of luxury, but it is spacious with a restaurant area for a good meal at an excellent price/quality ratio and a bar area for those thirsty throats.
The menu
The Holland-België Huis is very popular with Dutch expats, because it offers a nice selection of Dutch cuisine. The emphasis is on popular and favorite Dutch snacks, such as croquettes (65 Baht), bitterballen (75 Baht), meatballs with fries (145 Baht), pea soup (80 Baht), but also the Indonesian satay with peanut sauce (135 Baht) is not to despise.
The menu also includes a selection of internationally favorite dishes, such as spaghetti Bolognese (145 Baht), Wienerschnitzel (145 Baht) and fish & chips (165 Baht). Of course, the ham and cheeseburgers (75 Baht) are not missing, nor are the various soups, such as a good tomato soup or pumpkin soup (75 Baht). The drinks are also reasonably priced with a bottle of Chang for 50 Baht, Tiger for 60 Baht and Heineken for 65 Baht, a very acceptable house wine costs only 85 Baht a glass.
Starter and main course
We took a portion of bitterbillen beforehand, a delicious savory snack made from meat and mashed potatoes, traditionally served with mustard and fried onion rings. This was followed by a nice shrimp cocktail and smoked salmon (both 75 Baht). As a main course we chose a steak, medium rare, which turned out to be juicy and tender of excellent quality. Served with fried onion and excellent fries, this was an excellent choice for 220 Baht.
Dessert
Please note that you should not skip dessert. The homemade Belgian white chocolate mousse or the very tempting eggnog mousse, which of course contains that creamy Dutch liqueur, are divine!
So, if you are in the area or even live in the area, you will certainly not regret a visit to the Holland-Belgium House.”
Football
So much for the review. Also take a look at the website of the Holland-Belgium House for the correct location and a very nice column by “de Saboteur”.
I took a closer look myself and saw that the bar/restaurant is located on a beautiful, quiet square (Soi Nern Plub Wam Plaza). Enough space for those Dutch people who want to follow the football matches of the Netherlands during the European Championships in Poland/Ukraine live on a large screen.
For NLers who are on holiday here, it seems to me a pleasant meeting place. Beer, wine
portion of bitterballen, croquettes, and of course petat. In short, what is known as unhealthy eating.
It is to be hoped that people who have lived here longer will not only eat this greasy food
take something different. Rice is healthier than hamburgers.
If you are there on vacation? Then you don't go looking for Dutch people and Dutch tents?! Maybe in those cities, but if you go on holiday to South East Asia you still want to see some of the country and the culture and not just hang around in the tourist zones.
No, but if you live there it is of course a different story.
And some Dutch people live in Pattaya.
They want to have a Dutch snack now and then.
Gr Ruud Rambo
marcel,
Totally agree with you. I didn't really just mean vacationers either
but also NLers who have been retired there for years. In addition to Dutch restaurants, there are
where mainly snacks are served eg also German restaurants. In German restaurants, the main course consists of greasy bratwurst
The only thing I would like to eat again is a bowl of pea soup that was mentioned in
this article. Live in Thailand for 12 years and have absolutely no need for greasy petat or croquettes
Thank you for posting this review Gringo.
Regards,
Erik
Thanks for the tip. Can you post the link again? I can't find him anytime soon...
BVD.
H.
http://www.everyoneweb.com/hollandbelgiumhouse/
the new site is better and newer http://www.holland-belgiumhouse.com
As requested the link: http://www.everyoneweb.com/hollandbelgiumhouse/
Near Lake Mabprachan, a Dutchman has started a small beautiful resort with nice bungalows in Antillean colors with a fountain in the middle, I believe it is called "Ooy's Garden rooms and food" or something like that, many Dutch people come and the food is good.
I really don't understand if you leave for Thailand as an expat then you can't do without Dutch food. Then go to Spain as it has already been ruined by the expats.
I am always ashamed of the Dutch (and other immigrants) who want to adapt everything to the homeland in such exotic countries with a rich kitchen.
Marcel, then you probably haven't lived in Thailand for years because then you will automatically need Dutch food. I'm not at all ashamed that sometimes I crave pizza or croquettes or cheese.
A good steak is hard to find in Thailand, so if you can order it somewhere, do it right away!
Good piece of meat can be found on the market and you can prepare it yourself to your own taste. In this case I would save Dutch food until the holidays in the Netherlands, or for a special event.
I can also understand a little bit that people sometimes feel like it, but I don't understand that there are a variety of eateries with Dutch food.
Good piece of meat can be found on the market, you will not find a high-quality piece of meat there.
For that you really have to go to the Big C, Tesco or Makro and if you just don't feel like cooking for once, one of the many "farang restaurants" is an ideal meeting place!
I myself also eat an NL bite now and then and love it, actually sometimes at this place and quality and service can be called more than fine.
Next time I think you will have less to be ashamed of it hopefully and you will be more ashamed of other things 🙂
Thai food seven days a week, three or four times a day, Marcel? No thank you. Like Piet, I am not at all ashamed of occasionally sitting behind a plate of hutspot and Gelderland smoked sausage. Delicious!
If you stay abroad for months or years, I can imagine that a Dutch snack is tasty. Just like the toko here in NL is nice for the Asians. I completely understand that they don't want to eat European food (every day).
Although not entirely comparable to a Dutch eatery because you will not find me there very often, on the other hand, regularly in a McDonalds or KFC, which I am absolutely not ashamed of, and then I am not even an expat, but for the time being just a tourist who then always 1 stay in Thailand for up to 3 consecutive months. 🙂
Understand that you occasionally feel like a nice ball of minced meat, croquette or a cup of pea soup if you stay there.
In the Netherlands you don't eat every Dutch pot, do you? We only alternate about 3 or 4 times a week with spaghetti, lasagna or chili con carne and don't we all regularly get something from the Chinese, Surinamese or the Shoarma store?
What I miss most when I go on holiday abroad is the delicious Dutch bread. But I can safely go without fries or croquettes for 3 weeks. But it's funny that so many Dutch people start a restaurant.
By the way, do many Thai people come to eat to try Dutch cuisine?
Probably not as many as the Dutch eat in a Thai restaurant in the Netherlands.
Since we have been on holiday in Thailand a number of times, we cook Thai more often at home than fries or other greasy bites.
Personally, I think the bread in Belgium or France is much better than in NL. And also in the former French colonies (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) you can often get very good bread. In Thailand it is indeed searching.
Dutch cuisine is not that popular internationally and I suspect that the clientele consists mainly of Dutch people with nostalgia - whether they have been here for 30 years or 3 weeks. The Thai people you meet in a Dutch restaurant will for the most part consist of the (temporarily hired) 'girlfriends' of Dutch men, who, self-sacrificing as they are, chew away fries and a piece of chicken while daydreaming about som tam and sticky rice .
Idd the bread in Belgium and France is super good and for good bread I go to Laos, our Belgian kitchen on the other hand is a good kitchen, even HRH Bhumibol sometimes eats Belgian, not that I eat much Belgian here, I love the Thai cuisine and very satisfied with it, but the French cuisine and the Belgian cuisine that is closely related to French cuisine are much more renowned internationally than your Dutch cuisine, is there no joke in the Netherlands, by the way, that Belgium is only a piece of highway to France is where you can eat well. If I ever go to Pattaya, I would like to visit the restaurant to taste some of the Belgian cuisine.
Yep, the bread in Belgium, France and Germany is much better than in the Netherlands. And as for the Dutch restaurants where you occasionally find a Thai who reluctantly eats a frikadel, I completely agree 😉
Well…..
The Thai thinks anything Thai is better than anything else.
The German swears by German products.
The Frenchman, only French is really good.
And the Dutchman?
What you get far is nice…..
I dare to say that the bread in the Netherlands, and then from a good baker, is just as good as the bread elsewhere.
And my wife enjoys eating the occasional Dutch snack that I prepare myself, including homemade pea soup.
Croquettes, I can't do that.......
My girlfriend loves fries, she can eat it for breakfast together with raw vegetables when we stay in a hotel somewhere in Thailand where it is also served next to the Thai dishes during the breakfast buffet.
Funny, in the morning I'm eating rice with related dishes. she on a plate of fries. :)
Incidentally, fries are also regularly eaten at her home, which are available in the freezer at a BigC and then fried in the well-known wok pan.
She has never eaten the typical Dutch snacks such as the croquette and the fricandel, she will serve it to her sometime. One thing I do know, she thinks cheese is resolutely 'mai aroy'. (don't know if it's well written)
And I have to buy a block of cheese from Makro every time I'm around.
Or a Dutch cheese, Edam or Gouda.
Really, in my house we go through an average of one kilo of cheese per week.
On the sandwich, on the macaroni, on the spaghetti, on the morning croissant, and as a snack with a drink.
Chips are a popular food in everyone's house, just like pea soup, hutspot, and beetroot.
So you see, tastes differ… luckily.
But personally?
Thais
But French cuisine is really the best and not only the French themselves say that, that is just so internationally determined, just as Thai cuisine is also highly valued internationally, we cannot say that about the German or Dutch cuisine with all due respect. If I I don't go to the Netherlands or Germany for the food. Here in Thailand, on the other hand, it is a culinary paradise, ditto France. With kind regards.
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Well, the last word has not yet been said about French cuisine. I know a number of French top chefs who tell me in confidence that they can cook better in Belgium. But both are on a much higher level than the NL kitchen, that is.
Don't think so, that many Thais come to eat in a Dutch restaurant in Thailand
Point 1 Often too expensive because of their income
Point 2 Dutch people go all over the world for holidays because they can afford it, and thus go back to the Netherlands to such a foreign eatery.
I don't believe that many Thais come as tourists in Nl and then when they are back in Thailand I think let me eat in such a Nl restaurant, because boy was it nice on vacation there in the Netherlands
Don't think you will make a Thai happy with the Dutch cuisine mentioned and
still have to go to a specialized Dutch kitchen in the Netherlands.
Maybe there is something in Bangkok but not that I know of.
good bread is certainly for sale at the moment, at least in Bangkok at the major shopping malls such as Fashion Island and around Sukhumvit, but expect Dutch prices.
Where is Mabprachan???
I miss a nice indo most in Thailand but it's a few kilometers away.
Well, a Thai in NL started a Thai restaurant and a Dutchman in Thailand started one
Dutch Restaurant is not that crazy right?
I wouldn't dare say to the lady in the picture that it doesn't taste, looks combative!
On Koh Lanta you can go to a German Konditorei for delicious bread or a pastry! 😉
How about a herring?
My experience is that a Thai loves that .
Unfortunately , it is too expensive to start a business here .
Pim,
Indeed. In any case, my wife loves a “buddy”.
However, I know many Thais who really like herring or mackerel, but to keep to this one. You can find mackerel here, usually in Japanese-oriented kitchens, but I have not seen "buddies" for sale anywhere. Anyone a tip?
Ronny .
A smart stupid Belgian responded to my tip and got the loot.
Quite a lot of investment is needed to make herring sales in Thailand a reality.
1 additional problem is a work permit where I can teach a Thai how to do that.
Before the Thai understands that, I'm in the madhouse.
For 25 years my customers have been able to enjoy herring sold in the Netherlands, and I was disappointed with the tuition fees that had to be paid by the legislation in the Netherlands, sometimes I was still open until daylight, which is not allowed in the Netherlands.
Now I am here with great pleasure, I want to help whoever knows the way to help many people in Thailand to be able to grab that delicious piece of salt on the tail.
Mackerel does not have the taste as we have learned to eat it, the sole has also eaten in a different sea, so it is not really tasty for us.
I can recommend eel to everyone, a Thai runs away screaming when it is on my plate.
This is a free tip for the Dutchman with his restaurant in Thailand.
And where is that smart, stupid Belgian who got the loot? Would like to visit my fellow countryman sometime.
Ronny.
It's not proper to make his name public.
The company thought to start in Bangkok on a franchise basis to a Dutchman.
Cleverly thought of, unfortunately I hear from various sides that the business has gone bankrupt by supplying products that were past their expiration date.
Haring was not on the map, that is a profession in its own right.
I will try to get the necessary papers.
To mention his name or his business now would indeed not be proper
He is now bankrupt. Yes, a lot can happen in a year. I had already forgotten.
Offering food about its shelf life is never good advertising, of course.
But because of your reaction, I suddenly feel like a “buddies.