Brussels Belgium EU Summit 2012 REPOST

Photos of Belgian beers above

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Official languages of Belgium are:  (FROM WIKI)

• DUTCH
• FRENCH
• GERMAN

but go to this link at WIKI to find more about other languages in Belgium:

Languages of Belgium from WIKI

• Where do you go to eat in Brussels?

  

  

  

  

COMME CHEZ SOI:

http://www.commechezsoi.be 

• sole stuffed with crab
• shrimp in a tarragon sauce
• green pea soup with oxtail & Chimay beer
• filets of eel with Espelette peppers from the Basque country
• chicken with turmeric and apple chutney
• floating island 
• Burgundian Bruxellois 
• melange of poulet and greens
• chocolate cake like a souffle

AUX ARMES DE BRUXELLES: 

http://www.AuxArmesdeBruxelles.be

• fresh buckets of mussels with French fries and mayonnaise. 
• Real Bruxellois eat the first mussel with their fingers, and use the empty shell as a utensil for scooping up the rest. 
• Mop up the mussel soup with a hunk of crusty bread.
• excellent beef stewed in beer
• waterzooï (fish or chicken stew)
• steak with pepper-and-cream sauce

A LA MORT SUBITE

http://www.alamortsubit.com

  

  

• lambic beer
• open-face sandwiches known as tartines (beef tartare)
• quiet glass of kreik, or cherry-flavored beer.

AUX VIEUX BRUXELLES

http://www.auxvieuxbruxelles.com

Congolese food

• delectable mussels made with beer, curry and blue cheese.
• mussels serve 15 different ways:
• raw (accompanied only by a light white-wine sauce)
• baked
• fried
• grilled
• broiled
• moules marinières (boiled in water with vegetables)
• moules au vin (boiled in wine)
• Also have other foods if you don't want mussels
• steak au poivre flambé (flamed pepper steak)
• escargots (snails)
• crepes.

Photos below of Belgian sweets:

  

  

Photos below of Belgian wine and beer:

  

  

  

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Manger heureux et boire

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