Where I live now is right next to a very immigrant neighborhood. Javastraat is the main shopping area with lots of Turkish, Moroccan and Suriname stores. Since I am also an immigrant (from Japan to Canada to the Netherlands), I feel very confortable in this kind of colourful neighborhood in any country.
I really love Javastraat for grocery shopping. Here are the reason:
- Most vegetables are cheaper than at dutch supermarkets
- My favorite dried fruits and nuts are always there
- you can find freshly baked Turkish/Moroccan bread
- There's yummy Baclava shops and you can buy fresh pastry dough
- Good butchers where you can buy rabbit, goat meat and lambs
- you can buy many different kinds of pickles and olives
- You can find any kind of spices there
- You can practice Arabic
And of course it's the closest shopping street for me, but if you love food and cooking, I think Java straat is one of the top places to shop. You can experience Arabic culture in Amsterdam.
Oh, can you guess what's in this 'Mama Mimi' package?....
Can you see each character? I first couldn't believe someone made pasta in the shape of arabic characters because they just look like broken pasta bits or worm shapes to me.
Arabic pasta in minestrone. Ummmm kind of looks like letters? Still more like worms, to me...
The street names in the Javastraat neighbourhood are all named after places in Indonesia (an ex-colony of the Netherlands) like Java, Sumatra, Bali, Madura etc..Blue mark on the map below is the Super market YAKHLAF where I bought Mama Mimi pasta.
Here is the web site for this street → Javastraat
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