Things I learnt in Rotterdam

1. Dutch people don't jaywalk because they don't have to. Cars actually stop for them. You're more likely to be run down by a reckless cyclist than a bus.
2. Dutch adults drink milk in public.
3. Dutch people smoke a lot! This was rather unexpected, given #1 and #2. I suppose cycling/pedestrianism, milk drinking and smoking aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, and there's nothing to say that those who do #1 and #2 are the same people as those who do #3, but still.
4. There are worse places than Holland to get a craving for Japanese food. That said, the 'best' (reputedly, from my extensive internet search) Japanese restaurant in Rotterdam, Sakura, is actually run by Chinese people. I'm not sure if this has been made clear to the local populace, although they must know that you're highly unlikely to get steak served with egg fried rice and stir-fried vegetables in a Japanese restaurant (but man, the steak was good!). Also, their wakame salad 'with special sauce' is, in fact, just a salad with thousand island dressing and some wakame strips on top.
5. There's good food to be had in Rotterdam, although not particularly cheap. Loos, despite the somewhat unappealing name, is a great, casual, if rather smoky, bar/café/restaurant. They serve a simpler menu in the bar section, which I would have tried had I been in the mood for smoked food. The raised restaurant bit at the back has a pricier, but excellent a la carte selection. I had the set menu, which came with a foamy, light mussel soup, leg of lamb with spinach and mustard sauce on mashed potato, and a coconut sponge cake with poached pear for 29 Euros.
6. I didn't get a chance to try any lattes, but their espressos aren't bad at all!