Got a text from my brother telling me that a parcel arrived for me while I was out studying this afternoon and having only one guess of what it could be I made a beeline home, ignoring all schoolwork in my excitement. Haha. I'm also so glad these came when it did, because I get my wisdom teeth out next week and having all these delicious looking snack to tempt me would just be cruel.

Anyway, my Santa got me an assortment of treats from the Netherlands and most importantly, STROOPWAFFLES – the holy grail of Netherlandish treats.

Besides that I've only tried the Hamka's (ham and cheese flavoured crisps), Hopjes (coffee sweets) and the Oud Holland Sweets (btw, tried the yellow ones for science and they are citrus-y flavoured). I shared the snacks with my family and we all agreed that the crisps has been our favourite so far but we'll see if that changes as we check out the rest of them over the next couple of days.

On a sidenote, my cousins are half Dutch and I can't believe they've been keeping these hidden from me this whole time.