Rijstaffel

This was how we celebrated my birthday, and it was so much fun! First, we walked forever (or so it seemed....sometimes those steps, while enjoyable, seem to take a long time!). We went over to the Museumplein, to a little restaurant. They were the friendliest, most fun people that we have encountered so far. The menu explains what the rijstaffel is, and how to eat it.....so we ordered an appropriate bottle of wine, and waited a few minutes before the meal came out. Oh my goodness!

There were perhaps 20 dishes: two kinds of rice, some sort of vegetables in coconut sauce, pork satay and peanut sauce, some funky nut combination and toasted coconut and sweet potato threads and beef in coconut milk, chicken and some sort of curry, vegetables with a peanuty sauce, and on and on and on it went. We had a great time, and surprisingly, we were satisfied (well satisfied!) but not overly full. That's because there is just a couple of bites of everything. It was a most interesting time.

And it also let us think of MomK and DadK, and Esther and Perry, so it was just special all around.

Of course, now M wants to have some at home. Yoo hoo, MomK........I need some recipes, me thinks!