The Netherlands is truly a coffee and tea country. There are few places in the world where much coffee and tea is drunk as in the Netherlands. The climate is not suitable for growing coffee beans or tea plants, but because of the history of the Dutch, coffee, and tea have been imported for centuries from exotic destinations all over the world. There are several coffee brands that are very well-known in the Netherlands. If you want to drink good, tasty coffee, you are definitely in the right place in the Netherlands.
Not available everywhere
Unfortunately, Dutch coffees and teas are not so easily available everywhere in the world. The delicious rich aromas of for example Douwe Egberts coffee is a big miss when you stay abroad for a long time. The coffee from foreign supermarkets is often of lower quality and less tasty than the coffees prepared with care and attention in the Netherlands. For many ex-pats abroad, it is difficult to find a new coffee brand that comes close to the old familiar coffee from the Netherlands.
Dutch coffee with a cookie
The Dutch have typical habits and are also real creatures of habit, which means that for Dutchies it’s hard to get rid of a habit very quickly. In the Netherlands, it is very normal and even desirable to serve a cookie with your coffee. You will not get a coffee in a restaurant without a cookie. Perhaps not the healthiest habit of the Dutch people, but it is certainly very tasty. Dutch cookies are very diverse in taste. Many Dutch cookies are also unavailable abroad. The favourite cookies of the Dutch are ‘stroopwafels’, ‘roze koeken’, ‘bokkepootjes’ or ‘mergpijpen’. If you want to surprise a Dutch friend, you could do so by getting one of these biscuits from The Netherlands.
Your favorite Dutch coffee and biscuits
When it comes to real Dutch coffee brands, you will not find them abroad. The only solution is to order the delicious Douwe Egberts or van Nelle coffee at the Dutch Expat Shop. This online Dutch supermarket has all the flavors of coffee you could want and offers a 100% delivery guarantee. The great thing about the Dutch Expat Shop is that besides your favorite coffee, you can also find 27,000 other typical Dutch and Belgian products. So, you can also buy your favorite Dutch cookies to go with your coffee. Very nice to surprise your foreign colleagues or friends.
