How to Eat in Amsterdam on the Cheap

Series Summary

Going on a honeymoon? Taking a business trip to Asia? Vacationing in Europe? Traveling to a foreign country can be an exciting way to learn about another part of the world. With different food, culture, language, and history, a foreign land can help one to understand one's own world a little better and refresh personal perspectives about the similarities and differences people have living their everyday lives. In travel, considerations for money, health, safety and convenience should be planned out in advance. Preparation will make for a much smoother and more enjoyable trip. In this free video series, get some advice for planning a trip to Europe. With everything becoming more and more expensive, it is important to stay on a budget, and everyone knows that eating out is one of the fastest ways to spend money. However, thanks to Sarah Sathmari, an experienced travel guide, find out how to eat in some of Europe's largest cities on a budget. Sathmari discusses options for eating cheaply in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Florence, London, Paris, Venice, Rome and Edinburgh. Also, find out how easy it is to change currency in Paris. Curious about how to convert Celsius into Fahrenheit? Sathmari shows a quick and easy way to make the conversion. So, take a moment, and get some European travel tips today.

Video Transcript

"We have to admit that Amsterdam is not the cheapest city in Europe. The food and the lodging is really high priced but anyway if you walk around a little bit and you open your eyes and you think a little bit wiser then you can find the cheapest and the best places to eat as well. Amsterdam is famous for its vivid night life, the many bars, and the many coffee shops as well. If you get in one of those you can order for a big sandwich or a tasty filling but fairly inexpensive dish or what if you go in a place where they offer lovely pancakes for you. The pancakes are not like in the United States you shouldn't look for syrup, maple syrup or anything like that. It is a little bit different, it contains meat but if you order for one of those pancakes you will be definitely up to brim. What if you get in another place where you are going to be served vegetarian food. However you are not vegetarian, you can go in a vegetarian restaurant or in a whole food restaurant where you get fresh and tasty dishes. It is cheap, it is fairly inexpensive and it takes good to your health as well. In the district Leidesplein you find Japanese, Mexican, Indonesian, Arabic food which is inexpensive as well. You don't have to pay a big price for those and they are very tasty they are really delicious or you should get used to Herrings either pickled or otherwise they are always sold on the street anywhere you go. If you like French Fries you can order for a big portion of French Fries which is going to be served in a paper cone mostly with mayonnaise not with ketchup. That is what you have to put in mind or if you get to a vending machine and you order for a little meal maybe you will get an entire dish and you don't have to pay that much neither. So if you walk around in Amsterdam in the home of night life cafes, restaurants, bars and most of all coffee shops then you can buy inexpensive things and you don't have to pay huge amounts of money."