The first, and most important, food that I’ve discovered in Amsterdam is the Bapao bun. My friend discovered these one day when they were on Bonus at the Albert Heijn supermarket (Bonus items are sale items associated with your free Bonus card). The buns are made of Chinese-style soft white dough and filled with various tasty foods. My favorite is the kip, which is essentially curried chicken. The buns are perfect for me because I hate to cook, and they take less than a minute to be ready for consumption. Also, they are about 60 Euro cents each, and can be eaten in the packaging they come in. So there are no dishes! Hoorah!
I am really going to miss those buns when I go back to the US.
Another culinary delicacy I’ve been exposed to in Amsterdam are salami and brie sandwiches. I was a vegetarian for almost five years, and only recently quit for health reasons. I didn’t have much experience with salami before coming to Amsterdam, and tried the sandwich on a whim because I love brie. (An aside: I’m convinced that there is more brie in Amsterdam than in Paris). And behold, it was delicious. Now I’m addicted.
Another food combination that I am addicted to is bagels with cream cheese with tomato soup. Tomato soup is everywhere in Amsterdam, and in my desperate quest for bagels (which, sadly, are not everywhere) I ended up at a café that had tomato soup with a bagel as a daily special. I love both tomato soup and bagels (really, they approach the perfect food), so I got it. Dipping a cream-cheese covered bagel into tomato soup is surprisingly delicious.
Also, there are the cheese sandwiches. I’ve never seen a sandwich that was literally just bread and cheese before. But they are tasty, and as the sandwich place that I go to every Tuesday after class says on the menu: Go Dutch. Eat Cheese.