Brussels in the menu

Honestly, I never have had any dreams about belgium, just that I know its somewhere nearby Holland and France. But the short visit to this friendly city changed my perspective. The city treated us good.. with most fascinating people I have met.

The locals are simply saying Salam to us everytime we passed them, we get at least 10 salams when we are passing over the famous street for locals to dine (don't remember the RUE name). Another interesting fact is, these people seemed to know that we are Asians and that we are from Malaysia.. or the least inaccurately guessing we are Indonesians. (Even the people in the UK got so confused when I mentioned Malaysia). But Belgians KNOW.. Some of them even talked about our Primers.. Pak Lah, Mahathir.. and (almost) always famous Anwar Ibrahim. But most interesting thing I found out from them is they are very keen of us being Muslim that they really give us advise and “tarbiyah”..what not to eat, what not to buy, where not to go etc etc.. I mean, I really found these kind of people in Brussels?? wow, ibarat jauh panggang dari api. dekat Malaysia pun tak macam ni. Here I got the chance to practice lousy French (Bonjour.. mainly.. haha…) because Belgians speak French. Compared to Dutch, where Indonesian influence can be seen everywhere (nasi goreng and sate in their main menu!), here Morrocan dominate the small shops and other food business. So, you can guess why we are being treated nice, these Morrocans are mostly Muslims. Talk about food, we did savoured their local cuisine, like Aidie love to say it.. let's try their local cuisine, don't need to bring too much Maggie Mee (hahaha..because I insist we eat Maggie Mee). Famous for their mussel dishes, I ordered Mussel in cream and garlic (dulu dekat kampung taknak makan kupang, jauh-jauh kat sini nak pulak makan) . Like what we did in Amsterdam, trying out Dutch Pancakes. The fact that shouldn't be forgotten is the world famous Belgian Chocolate.. name it Godiva, Newhouse, Leonidas, Guylian.. this is the place where it originates. Try it, it tastes like you never tasted chocolate before.. The REAL trademark of Belgium.. (no relevant pictures to show here..)

Many people told us that there is nothing much to see in Brussels. Well, we proved them wrong. Even for this one day touring of Brussel, we found many historical places in town, the last point of tram stop in town (because we missed the Centraal stop) and we have already seen all of Europe, but with a smaller scale. Nearby Hazel tram stop, there are at least 3 places to visit, which are Little Europe (have to pay 11.80 euros to enter) , Bruparck (water theme park like Sunway Lagoon type) and Atomic Garden . With limited time, we still enjoyed Little Europe.