On 5 July Renaat and Susan asked to be the “good Belgian customer” in a program of BTV Sports channel, as they were both in Belgium. I gladly accepted.
We spent several hours in my favorite restaurant, “Morel’s Restaurant”, on Worker’s Stadium North Road (gongti bei lu) with the BTV crew to check out the decoration of the restaurant, some of the many Belgian beers and of course to taste some of Renaat’s signature dishes: “Belgian Grey Shrimps with tomato”, “Belgian beef beer stew”, Mussels, Belgian fries, Belgian waffles and more.
It was fun working the friendly BTV crew, even more having a wonderful tasting event. Once the real shooting was done, we all sat together for a real Belgian banquet with never-ending dishes and beer. My daughter joined us later and we both showed our Belgian colors to support the Belgian football team. Our BTV host did a good drinking job of the many Belgian beers… great performance!
I was so stuffed I needed an extended siesta and forgot about dinner.
The same evening the program came out on BTV, as a runner-up to the World Cup match Belgium-Argentina. OK, we lost to Argentina 0 to 1 but the Red Devils did what they could and, hey! our Dutch friends also did not manage to win… Made us feel a bit better.
Anyway the Belgian team made us feel proud.