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The Zeeland Coffee Beanery is not a reataurant but a coffee shop where you can drink coffee, cappuccino, tea or juice and have some cake with it.You can sit inside the shop but it's nicer to sit outside where you can watch the street life: schoolchildren having fun and passing by, shopping people, cars driving on the road, tramps asking for a cigarette and so on, and so on.
When you want to eat in a different ambience than, for example, The Waterside, you can go to restaurant La Bastille in Paramaribo.In this restaurant you can eat European food but it's also possible to have some Chinese dishes.Also special to this restaurant was that you get your food at the same time when you're here with many people. In some other restaurants it's possible you get your dish when other people already have finished their meal. I only ate here once, so I can't say I have a favorite dish. What I can tell is that the food was really good.
For a long time, The Waterside, a small part of the embankment of the Suriname river, is the meeting point for the local people of Paramaribo.At this place, under the almond trees, you can eat (or drink) from the early morning till the late evening.It's not really a restaurant but there are different stands where you can get your food. So you can get Creole food at Inez' eatcorner or chicken at Chung Kee's stand.At the Waterside, when eating or drinking, you can talk to the local people or listen to the stories (or their displeasure) of Suriname and the politics. One of my favourite dishes at the Waterside is the vegetarian bami and also the bakabana (baked banana with peanut sauce).I ate the bami three times here and every time it was different but very good. When you like pepper with your food, ask for it.Have your meal with a drink, for example the local beer: Parbo.
We'd sit on the veranda peeling shrimps at 40 degrees Celsius outside temperature. In cold and dreary Holland people would die eating such shrimps (salmonella) but not here. The shrimp are dried and used as taste enhancer and keep for years too. Pitjil which is a pestled mixture of peanuts, tamarind, garlic, palm sugar, peppers and many many spices. Endless mixed and stamped in a mortar, makes a hard brick of fragrant pitjil. Break off a bit and mix it with boiling water to create a hot and spicy sateh (peanut) sauce. Of course it can be bought, but this is the best. It keeps for years in or outside the fridge.
COOKING Our cuisine is a mixture of Indigenous, African, Asian and Western cooking. All of these have their specialties and specific flavors. Some of our dishes may be familiar, while others may be new. Have you ever tried dishes like: -* pom - a local root baked to a delicious dish with chicken and orange juice-* peanut soup with tom-tom (plantain noodles)-* saoto - chicken soup with beansprouts, thinly sliced cole and celery, fried shoestring potatoes and a boiled egg-* her'heri which is boiled plantains, cassava, sweet potatoes and other edible tubers, together with smoked or salted fish prepared with a hot pepper sauce-* roti - a flat pancake like bread filled with chicken, stewed potatoes and vegetables-* petjil - cooked vegetables with peanut sauce-* dawet - a drink made of coconut milk and lemongrass-* samosas - deep-fried patties-* sweets like jilebi, rasgulla and barfi-* kwak...
its a "fast food" restaurant or somthing like this, and you eat with your fingers. rotie kip met extrareally hot chicken meat with potatoe and pancakes
many delicious dutch pancakes!Also good fried and chicken poffertjes
Everybody loves to eat here!!! very cheap all Dim Sums
Here you can lunch the typical duth way (and meet lots of dutch people)Open till 3:00 P.M bread with tuna
nice environment, good food, but not a really good service. Telo with trie and chicken
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Q: does anybody know how to fly from paramaribo to curacao? which aircompany and what is the ticket price?
A: i don´t think there are any direct link between these two plces, so i think you will need to make a stop over somewhere. here is a couple of links to airlines that are...
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