What is a “Belgische wafel”?
Dagje Antwerpen: koffie, shoppen en wafels
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Picked for people who know a little
A Belgische wafel is more than one thing. Belgium sells two distinct waffle styles, and tourists routinely conflate them. The Brusselse wafel is rectangular, deep-pocketed, light, made with a yeasted batter, and traditionally eaten with confectioner’s sugar, fruit, slagroom, or chocolate sauce. The Luikse wafel (Liège waffle) is denser, sweeter, smaller, oval-edged, made with a brioche-style dough studded with caramelised pearl sugar, and eaten plain in the hand. Antwerpen, Gent, Brugge, and Brussels all have specialist wafelhuizen, and big chains like Maison Dandoy (Brussels) supply waffles across the country. Dutch tourists in Antwerp default to Luikse wafels with chocolate.
In this clip, a Dutch couple’s day trip ends with: “Daarna hebben we een leuke wafel gehaald met chocola natuurlijk.”
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.
- ▸In Belgian travel and tourism content (Toerisme Vlaanderen, Visit Antwerpen, Visit Brussels)
- ▸In Belgian food-history and wafelhuis writing (Maison Dandoy, Knack Weekend, Het Nieuwsblad)
- ▸In Dutch and Flemish culinary journalism (De Volkskrant, De Standaard, Trouw)
- ▸In Dutch dagje-uit-and-cross-border content (LINDA., AD, Allerhande)