Suriname

🇸🇷Suriname

Schaafijs

Ice shaved from a block into a cup and soaked with bright syrups, often finished with condensed milk.

🇧🇳Brunei

Shrimp Paste

Belacan

Fermented shrimp paste blocks made from tiny geragau shrimp, essential umami ingredient in Malay cooking, deep purple-brown color with strong pungent aroma, foundational

🇳🇱Netherlands

Spring Rolls

Loempia

Dutch-Indonesian spring rolls filled with vegetables and meat, deep-fried until crispy, a popular snack and side dish.

🇧🇷Brazil

Suco de Maracujá

Brazilian passion fruit juice, refreshingly tart and usually sweetened. A breakfast and bakery staple, often served with the seeds strained out.

🇸🇷Suriname

Surinamese Bami

Bami

Wheat noodles fried with chicken, cabbage and ketjap manis, sweeter and darker than the Indonesian original and usually sold by weight.

🇸🇷Suriname

Surinamese Bara

Bara

A soft fried disc of ground split-pea and flour batter, eaten warm with hot sauce or split around a filling.

🇸🇷Suriname

Surinamese Chicken Pie

Kippenpastei

Shredded chicken with peas, carrot and raisins baked between two layers of soft pastry and cut in squares.

🇸🇷Suriname

Surinamese Ginger Beer

Gemberbier

Fresh ginger grated and steeped with sugar and lime, left a day or two to develop a fizz.

🇸🇷Suriname

Surinamese Masala

Massala

A roasted, ground blend built on coriander, cumin, fenugreek and mustard, coarser and darker than Indian curry powder.

🇸🇷Suriname

Surinamese Nasi

Nasi

Fried rice made Surinamese with ketjap manis, chicken, egg and a heavier hand of sambal than in Java.

🇸🇷Suriname

Telo

Cassava boiled then fried in chunks and served with fried salt cod and sambal.

🇸🇷Suriname

Yardlong bean

Kouseband

Metre-long green beans sold in coiled bundles and cut into short lengths for curry, petjil and roti plates.