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La Belgique Gourmande located on rue de la Colline (the street leading to the Grand place) is just one of the two thousands stores in the country selling chocolate. Wherever you may be in Brussels or Belgium you can be certain never to be far from one. Export numbers for these much in demand truffles and pralines amount around 200 000 tons yearly alone. PS: We do eat a lot of them ourselves as well

 

Handmade Belgian chocolate store

 

Close up on the pralines and truffles

 

Various kinds of chocolates

 

A Fountain of melted chocolate is seen just under the store sign

Tags: Belgian chocolate, Belgian specialties, Belgian Truffles, pralines

The Mitraillette is a typical Belgian fast food snack that is serve in just about anyone of the small fries vending shops or restaurant commonly called friterie in French or Fritkot in Dutch.

It’s composed of half a baguette with inside some form of meat (there are countless variations such as sausages, pita, fish, chicken,..) though most basic version would be with hamburger meat. To this is added a bit of salad and tomatoes which is to be then submerged in fries and topped by one of about 15 different possible sauces available.

 

Tonight’s combination was a Mitraillette mergues frites

Tags: Belgian specialties, brussels, bruxelles, food, friterie, Mitraillette