Draft:Surinamese cuisine

Surinamese cuisine are culinary traditions originating from the country of Suriname. Surinamese cuisine is extensive, as it was influenced by many international cuisines, including Indian / South Asian, West African, Creole, Indonesian (Javanese), Chinese, Dutch, British, French, Jewish, Portuguese, and Amerindian cuisines. Surinamese cuisine has many contributions to the Indonesian cuisine, due to large Javanese ethnic minority in the country, including bakmi, nasi goreng, sate and mie goreng. Suriname, a country in South America, has a land area of 163820 km2 and a population of 632,638, with a low population density of just inhabitants/km2. Pom is possibly the country's national dish.

Its diet mostly based on tropical plants, such as cassava or rice. Foreign diets such as wheat and other non-tropical plants also a part of the country's diet, although not often.