• ChrystalBlurbs@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Interesting, thanks for sharing. 👍

    Why does Belgium has such a high rice consumption in comparison to the Netherlands or Germany?

    Any special Belgian dish I am not aware of or a high percentage of immigrants?

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      1 year ago

      I honestly have no clue. I mean I know we eat rice, but wouldn’t say we eat a lot of it. And while we do have a large immigrant percentage, not a significant amount of those are from regions where eating rice is popular.

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        1 year ago

        In Belgium, about 2.0% (220000) have Turkish citizenship or (partial) ethnicity/ancestors, whereas in Germany, it’s 4.2% (3.5-4mio people). That can’t be it.

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          I’m a Portuguese in Belgium and just had rice, there are many Portuguese here as well 😁

          PS: but then it should be higher in Luxembourg, so I don’t know.

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        But afaik the nehterlands have a „large“ malaysian population and a couple if „classic“ snacks are variation of east asian dishes (bamischijf, peanut sauce on fries)