So you came to the land of cheese. To be honest, France is the real land of cheeses, but we make some nice stuff as well. Here is what you need to know about the yellow gold when you come and visit Amsterdam.
For starters; Don’t buy that red and round Edammer! We don’t. Nobody eats that S**T. It’s made solely for tourists looking for dutch cheese to bring home. Skip it. Here’s what you do need to do.
- Take a cheese tasting session at Reypenaer cheese tasting room for 7 euro’s or so. It’s commercial but it’s cool and you get to taste some descent cheeses. For more info see: www.wijngaardkaas.nl/en/proeflokaal. This is not a sposored link, it’s genuinely a nice thing to do.
- Buy oude Boeren kaas (old farmers cheese) at any market. The Lindengracht / Noordermarkt (Monday’s & Saturday’s) is probably the best for cheese but basically on any dutch market is a descent cheese stand. And while you’re there, buy some Oude Hollandse (boeren) geitenkaas as well. (Old Dutch goat cheese).
- Never buy cheese in the supermarket! It’s plastic tastless stuff that we all buy ‘couse we’re lasy and cheap. Not becouse we actually like the taste.
- Dont buy cheese in a place that says “Cheeseshop“. We don’t. We buy it at ‘de Kaasboer’. Which is a whole differant experiance (and pricing) than the “Dutch cheese store” a.k.a tourist trap.
- Just buy an ounce of cheese in slices and eat it on a baquette or some dutch wholeweat bread. If you like it you can always buy more to bring home. You don’t wanna fly home with a kilo of yellow plastic, now do you?
