Specialities/souvenirs

Specialities: food & drink

• pungent Tierenteyn mustard
• garlic horsemeat sausage
• Ganda ham
• sweet delicacies such as ‘kletskoppen’, ‘Gensche mokken’ (biscuits), wippers, neuzekes, poepkes, muiletrekkers (sweets) and pralines
• mastellen (soft round rolls flavoured with cinnamon)
• kroakemandels (salted peas fried in oil)
• Bruggeman jenever
• numerous local and regional beers
• Roomer
• Callas Confiture

Many of these products are available at the Centre for the Promotion of the Regional Products of East Flanders (Great Butchers’ Hall).

The people of Ghent obviously have a sweet tooth too. Some examples:

• Cuberdons, tjoepkes and neuzekes: red cones filled with delicious thick raspberry syrup. Don’t leave without trying one.
• wippers, nonnenbillen, muilentrekkers, muilevol, mokken, poepkes, katrienespekken... and lots more delicious Ghent sweets!
• the delectable Belgian chocolates

Souvenirs

• the black & white strop (noose)
• statuettes of the Poorters, Charles V, Klokke Roeland and others
• all sorts of objects and gadgets with pictures of Ghent and Charles V
• lace (some of which originate from the Ghent Lace Academy)

Great Butchers'Hall
Groentenmarkt 7
9000 Gent
T. + 32 9 223 23 24
F. + 32 9 223 23 22
e-mail: grootvleeshuis@oost-vlaanderen.be
www.grootvleeshuis.be (available in Dutch)

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday from 10h until 18h

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