Topic: Hello from the Netherlands

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Hi, my name Yvonne and I'm a Dutch woman who likes to cook, read, sew and do yoga.
I'm also a bit of a nerd.

I have eaten and liked dutch indian takeaway, which I suspect is very much like BIR takeaway.
The first thing I had was saag paneer and immediately felt an urge to recreate it in my own home so I found a recipe on the vegrecipesofindia site and have been cooking traditional indian recipes from them for a rather long while now.

But something was missing, I couldn't find some...make that most of the dishes that I loved from my indian takeaway on that site. Not even a vegetarian version.
After some googling it dawned on me; indian takeaway may overlap with traditional indian cooking sometimes but it's a different beast altogether.

So I found my way here, hopefully to learn how to make something that resembles indian takeaway.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Even if it's about wooden shoes or marihuana.

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Hi Yvonne, I'm glad you found us here.

Do Dutch people laugh at the foreigners who travel all the way to Amsterdam only to ignore the city and sit in a coffee shop smoking weed like naughty schoolboys?

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Hi Yvonne, I'm glad you found us here.

Do Dutch people laugh at the foreigners who travel all the way to Amsterdam only to ignore the city and sit in a coffee shop smoking weed like naughty schoolboys?

We don't laugh at them, a small number of us might make a comment between ourselves about how much of a waste of time and money it is to travel that far without actually doing some sight seeing.

But most city dwelling dutch people are acclimatised to drug tourists, for example I don't live in a big city and even I have been asked (numerous times) by french speaking people "Ou est la coffee shop?".
It's very common for french speaking people to cross the dutch-belgian border for drug tourism.
Local Amsterdam people might share a few laughs with the tourists over a joint though.
Especially hippie/new age locals since that culture is very big in Amsterdam.

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I want to know if the Pink Floyd Caf

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I want to know if the Pink Floyd Caf

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  dank je! Well it was 1993, so it had a good innings

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dank je! Well it was 1993, so it had a good innings

"De dampkring" became the most well known coffee shop in amsterdam so it was definitely a good move.
Whenever tv has to film inside a coffeeshop they do it at that location.