…Tim can and does…
as i explained to M. how i wasn’t too impressed with the Korean cuisine, she exclaimed she loved it! she had been to a restaurant in Nieuw-Vennep (of all places) and was crazy about the tastes…
strange. the two main proofs of the pudding was in the eating of kimchi (fermented vegetables with vinegared chilly paste and herbs) and the korean BBQ. now, the kimchi is not bad, but hardly a culinary phenomenon… also the BBQ: when we gourmet at the dinner table, we like to have a lot of different types of meat and other stuff, whereas here you have to choose whether you want beef or pork… again, not bad at all, but no Michelin-star just yet…
but then again, i have had this same experience with greek food; we went to Corfu and basically the main dishes were souvlaki and moussaka with some tzatziki… never the multitude of dishes i love at the restaurants in the Netherlands… maybe it is the same case with these Korean places!
so, docile as i am 
and loving the idea of going to a korean restaurant just before going to korea, we were gonna go to that specific restaurant, until we discovered that one was gone… hm… so we looked for a restaurant in 010 to go to and ended up at Azzia…
first thing that draws the attention is the asian feel and relaxed atmosphere… i love the benches to sit on next to each other, snuggling up nice and cosy…
the chef and host Tim Kan wanted us to understand it wasn’t fusion he was aiming for, he is trying to combine elements of multiple cuisines (thai, chinese, japanese, korean) into one (isn’t that fusion?)… anyway, i have to say, the result is amazing! indeed, the combinations are very tasty; we started with some superfresh dim-sum, after which we got a free intermediate dish (i would call it a spoom) of green tea/apple jelly with lemon marinade, damn that was both incredibly delicious!
as main courses we ordered japanese salmon with light soysauce and chinese crispy shrimp with fried garlic flakes… all of the dishes were so delightfully tasty and sophisticated, damn! as a dessert we had a kind of sesame seed covered doughball with belgian chocolate and ice cream; this was the least surprising and tasteful of the evening, but until then we had a blast! Tim can!
just go. azzia
