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DBMA: Feeding Tourists - Part III
And because I somewhat promised the last part, here's a picture of the best food we had during our stay on the island of Texel:
It's from a restaurant in De Koog, which name I didn't jot down, and even the mighty Google seems to have the restaurant positioned somewhere else than I remember it to be. Let's just say, it's the only Thai restaurant in De Koog and it's not in the grizzly Dorpsstraat. You'll find it. We were a bit worried because there were barely any people there, and wondered whether it's the fate of the restaurants that serve the most distinguished food on the island to perish due to their exotic nature. When we walked past the next day, an hour earlier than we'd been there the day before, we were happy to see that our fears were unfounded. The restaurant was packed. And with this rather happy ending I will conclude my Death By Martini Abroad specials. I hope you had a blast, I know I did. Dank u wel!
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DBMA: Feeding Tourists - Part II
It took a mere ten days, but here I am with yet another glorious update, namely Pt.II of my already epic feature on how to feed tourists. Where tourists are actually my girlfriend and I.
As you may remember from last time, there's not a whole lot that speaks for the cuisine of the Netherlands. Which, by the way, is not meant to be mean in any way. It's just the way it is. But they do make some mean fries.
And they've got these fantastic contraptions that hold your fries. Which makes for a great fries-eating-experience. 
Hell, who needs a refined cuisine, when you've got stuff like that? Apart from fries, Dutch cuisine also offers pancakes. I don't really care for pancakes, so I let my girlfriend sample an apple-pancake in the restaurant next to the lighthouse in the north of the isle of Texel (called "De Toren", which I think means "The Lighthouse", but it could mean all other kinds of things as well; I'm simply too lazy to find out). Anyway, I was told that the pancake was ok, but nothing to write home about. Which, when on vacation, is a bad thing, because it takes away yet another thing to write on all those postcards. (Disclaimer: I didn't send any postcards. So it wasn't just you who didn't get one, it was everyone!) Anyway, I think the picture of the pancake turned out quite nice though:
Come back soon to witness yet another entry on what we had while on vacation, or maybe I'll skip the last part in favour of telling you what I had last week. I'm just a dare-devil like that, you know?
DBMA: Feeding Tourists - Part I
When on vacation, people do two things: nothing and eating.
I had actually planned on writing a lengthy essay on the merits and the downsides of being at a place that specializes in feeding these hungry hoards, but after a few paragraphs I came to the conclusion that it would be far too rambling. So instead, here's a rundown of a few places we ate during our stay in the Netherlands:First of all there was Wagamama in Amsterdam. It's actually a Japanese chain, but I'd never been to one, so we sat and ate:
This is Yaki Udon, which contained all sorts of vegetables, chicken and prawns. I'd never before realized that Udon noodles taste a bit like potatoes. We also had a starter, which the good people at Wagama like to call a side dish:
Grilled asparagus. I must say, it sounded better on the menu. I guess I'm just not much of an asparagus man.On Texel, where tourist feeding places are abundant, we had our first dinner at a tex-mex-pizzaplace-asian mixture of a restaurant, aptly named Maxima Classic Grill Restaurant Argentina. The logical conclusion was for me to have an entrecôte: 
It wasn't the best steak I'd ever had, but hey, it was my vacation and it was meat, so I was happy. That's it for today. Come back tomorrow for more detailed stories on what to eat where and why on the isle of Texel.
Wagamama Restaurant Maxima Classic Grill Restaurant Argentina
