Joe had off again today for the day after the Ascension of the Lord. He had looked up food festivals about a week ago and found out that Rollende Keukens, Amsterdam’s Food Truck Festival, was happening this weekend.
We drove up the Schiphol airport to trade out our Nissan Note rental car for another one. Joe was not very happy with our replacement, a Skoda hatchback.
We drove over to Westerpark on the north side of the canalled city.
We were pretty hungry by the time we walked in. We got some pig in a blanket (pork with some beef sausage in a fried dough) from a place with pigs on a fire rotisserie.
Jackie waiting for our order to be ready
Next we were enticed to have a plate of Jamaican Cajun chicken and fried bananas (plantains). The chicken had a spice rub and was char-grilled right there.
We walked around a bit trying to decide what other interesting things to try. They had a lot of the typical fancy food truck foods you’d come to expect in the US.
Joe ordered us a wild boar pita to share.
It was a great food truck festival that we could see ourselves coming back to next year with our baby girl in the stroller.
On the way out we got an ice cream cone of raspberry and chocolate. Jackie learned later that the ice cream was apparently made with coconut milk, making it lactose-free, soy-free and gluten-free. Not something we would intentionally look for, but it was good!
The number of bikes at Westerpark will give you some indication of the size of the food truck festival. There were probably close to 200 food trucks setup.
The number of bikes at Westerpark will give you some indication of the size of the food truck festival. There were probably close to 200 food trucks setup.
On the drive home in between Amsterdam and Utrecht, we decided to drive through the town of Breukelen, which the New York’s borough was named after. (New York was once known as New Amsterdam for those that don’t know. There are other Dutch towns/cities such as Haarlem that also have namesakes in New York.)
We arrived at their market just as it was wrapping up for the day.
We arrived at their market just as it was wrapping up for the day.
Momma and baby girl enjoying a warm super-sized stroopwafel in Breukelen
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