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Anyway, so Brussels has very decent food, I have to admit. I think all the restaurants have a certain standard that they have to adhere to, so most of the restaurants my dad's taken us to have been yum! It's just too bad I won't be able to continue to afford eating at these snazzy and yum restaurants after my parents leave. *Sigh* The following are restaurants that we've been to and I'd actually brought my camera along (in order from earliest to most recent). I'm not even going to talk about price because they're all pretty pricey (most, if not all, were 20+ Euro per person). Lost of food pics, you have been warned!

Belga Queen
My mom's not a big fan of this restaurant. The few times she went before she always ordered the Plat du Jour (plate of the day) and was disappointed each time. However, their bathroom is awesome because the glass walls and doors of each stall are clear until you lock the door. Then, the glasses all fog up, and you can't see the person inside! Just for that, we had to take a trip to the restaurant. This time around we didn't order the Plat du Jour, just ordered main courses. I thought it was pretty good.

Beer! (Rodenbach)
Obligatory pre-meal bread and butter
Mom's dish - roasted cod with mashed potatoes
Dad's dish - Charcoaled steak with Artichoke
Sister's dish - Half raw tuna (aka seared tuna, thanks JC) with fries (As much as I dislike tuna, this was pretty tasty)
Mine's - Smoked Piglet with Veggies. T'was really yum!

Pictures of bathroom coolness? ~> Unlocked and Locked.

Italian Restaurant

Forgot the name of this restaurant. Hah! Their food was alright. Actually, I should say, their pizza was fantastic. We ordered pizaa with artichoke (<3!), olives, mushrooms, Italian sausage, and ham. Thin crusted, baked to perfection. So good. Other than that, their pastas and ravioli left much to be desired. And their post-meal alcohol? So strong it was ridiculous. Ever tasted paint thinner? I haven't, but I think that liquor was on par with paint thinner.

Bread, which was made out of the pizza crust. Fresh outta the oven, delicious!
PIZZA! which I forgot to take a picture of until we were 3/4 done with it.
Salmon pasta, which my mom likes, but I wasn't really a fan of the sauce. It just tasted weird. Then again, not a fan of salmon.
Dad's oxtail with pasta. It was aite. Only aite.
Horrible ravioli with bolognaise sauce. It was too salty and the ravioli itself was tasteless. Tried to tell the waiter that it was too salty, but the waiter didn't speak English. And salty in French escaped our minds.
After-meal liqueur, aka paint thinner. It was free. But it was DEADLY.

Brasserie du Parc (Ostend)

When we went on our tour of Northern Belgium, ended up at Ostend around lunch time. My dad's guide book suggested two restaurants, and one of them wasn't open yet and the prices were a tad high, so we ended up at Brasserie du Parc (which in the guidebook was named Cafe du Parc, weird until we realized the guidebook was published back in 2003 or something). After initial misgivings, we ordered, and the food turned out to be not so bad, except for my dad's dry, plain looking tuna sandwich.

Beer! Can't be without beer - 2 Hoegaardens and a Mort Subite.
Mom's dish - Bouillabaisse (sp?) aka Fish soup, which tasted super fishy, but my mom enjoyed.
Dad's dish - tuna fish sandwich. Mmm, looks tasty, huh? My mom's looks and probably tastes better than that.
Sister's dish - Omlette with everything (ham, cheese and tomatoes).
Mines - Chicken with white sauce (Creamy!). There was an official French name for it, but I can't recall what it is now.


To be continued ....

Back in the blogging mood after some self-pitying, PMSing, and a little too much Las Vegas and Gossip Girls. Thank God for streaming TV shows on the internet. Otherwise I wouldn't know how to spend my too much free time.

A couple of days before my parents took off for their Taiwan trip, we went to three cities in Belgium. This was before the trip to Antwerp. Wow, my trip updates are way out of order. Anyway, we went to Ostend (beach!), Bruges (old town), and Waterloo (Napoleon!).

Ostend
I think this would be a nice place if 1) it weren't so cold and windy, and 2) there was blue skies. Due to the lack of blue skies, the sea wasn't very blue either. =(



It was so windy that it was cold (we weren't very prepared), so we just stayed on the boardwalk, kinda far from the water. We had lunch there and had very yummy beer - Subite Morte (Sudden Death, heh). It had a sweet taste and wasn't bitter at all. Kinda like a carbonated drink with a tad bit of alcohol. Mmm. The food was good too. :P

Bruges
Gorgeous town, fantastic architecture, lots of churches. I really do like the old-European style buildings. Pictures will do the talking.

Bruges is kinda Venice-like as they have their own canals around their city. We didn't really visit the whole city, but they have these boat tours that take you around.
interior of one of the churches

Waterloo
Yup, where Napoleon lost. There's a huge hill - Butte du Lion - that you get to climb up to the top (where there's a lion statue!) and look down at the "battle site." There's 225 steps (yup, I counted), and my calves were SO sore the day after that climb. Ugh. So tiring.

View from the top
Where the armies were ...

As usual, more pictures at Flickr ... and my butt hurts now, so I'm going to bed. Good nite!