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Belgian food habits

1. It is most famous for its various seafood and shellfish.

The mussels it abounds in are plump and tasty. Among various cooking methods, steaming mussels with white wine is the best way to taste their original flavor.

There are many kinds of Belgian cuisine, and more than 40 kinds of fish can be caught in Flanders.

North Sea gray shrimp with tomatoes is a unique Flemish delicacy that has always been admired by many foreigners.

Plaice, a firm-fleshed flat fish, is also popular.

2. Belgium is most famous for mussels with French fries.

Mussels are a kind of black-shelled seashells, also called mussels, mussels or mussels. Belgians usually cook them with celery and wine and serve them with fried French fries.

Belgium has the largest variety of beers, with a variety of different flavors worth trying.

3. Belgian wine. Most Belgians drink beer, but there is also Genièvre, which is shochu made by distilling fermented malt. It used to be made by distilling Genièvre berries.

It’s Belgian gin.

Extended information: Belgium applies for World Cultural Heritage for French fries. In Belgium, people from different language areas hardly reach a consensus on the same thing. However, when it comes to applying for World Cultural Heritage for Belgian French fries, everyone shows great enthusiasm.

Amazing agreement: "If the world cultural heritage application is approved, Belgian French fries will be as famous as Chinese Peking Opera, Argentine tango and other arts in the future." Potatoes were introduced to Belgium in the 16th century, but French fries began to be widely sold and became a table delicacy

Just arrived in the 19th century.

In December 2013, the Belgian fried food industry launched a campaign to list Belgian French fries as an intangible cultural heritage and sought official and private support at the same time.

"Belgian French Fries" first consists in selecting high-quality potatoes produced in Belgium and cooking them twice in unrefined butter. There are many types of French fries, ranging from those as thick as an index finger to as thin as wheat straw, but the "Fries" in the eyes of Belgians

It's the former one.

Eating "Belgian fries" is "authentic" by dipping them in mayonnaise. The coolest and most "authentic" way to eat them is to put the fries in a paper tube and eat them with your hands.