Guide and tourist at the same time in Gent

This weekend I had my first visitors:) Susanne, Vanessa and Rita came to visit on their way to Portugal from the Flatfish Symposium in Ijmuiden, near Amsterdam. It was truly a different weekend, to taste and see Gent with different eyes! I feel that I was both being their guide and being a tourist... hopefully now I will be able to be more of a guide and less of a tourist to my next visitors! Still we had lost of fun, I'll leave you with some pictures, mainly of the yummie food and drinks we tried.

Trapiste beer, my favorite actually Tripel Karmeliet.

And we had to have mussels with frites.

Chicken waterzooi, I must confess I was a little hesitant at first but this stew/soup in a light creamy sauce is amazing! I don't know what herbs they use, but I am going to find out!

There's this little bar ran by a old guy that has these amazing flavor gin liquor. We tried coffee, kiwi, chocolate and passion fruit (in the picture) as well as lemon, and they were all amazing (well the kiwi not really, too bitter)

More trapiste beer and Vanessa's kriek (Chimay Blauwe, Orval Brune, Achel Blonde)

One of the evenings we went to a Turkish restaurant and this is my dish... which was amazing! Ground lamb with herbs in pastry with tomato sauce and yogurt.

And our table with Rita and Susanne's stews and Vanessa's other lamb dish that cooked for 4 hours.

We also had waffles, of course and frites with brown sauce (typical from Gent).