Suriname Food
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The Richmond Hill area of Queens, aka "Little Guyana" is home to the only Suriname restaurant in New York. Since the two countries are geographically located next to each other, it only makes sense that Warung Kario would find a home within this Guyanese enclave.
Suriname is a country located in northeastern South America that many people in America have not even heard of. It is a fusion culture of Indonesian, Indian, Chinese, African and the original Dutch colonizers. Their cuisine represents this myriad of flavors.
Warung Kario is a place that you certainly do not go to for ambience, but if you are a dedicated foodie that places authenticity over pretty garnishes - this is the place for you for delicious, home-style Surinamese food!!! However, it is a very clean establishment, despite its simple furniture. When I was in culinary school, there was a teacher who once told me if the bathroom is clean, that gives you a very good representation on how clean the kitchen is. The bathroom passed my test.
Now for the food. Authentic, Flavorful, Delicious!!! Indonesian Satay is made with more peanuts and less coconut milk. The sauce was delicious but the meat was a bit dry - this was the one negative for Warung Kario.
The Dutch influence is apparent in the chicken and potato krokets, served with ketchup. The chicken and potato filling is very flavorful, seasoned with spicy mustard. Three very filling krokets for only $5 is worth every cent. The other highlight of the appetizers is the Bakabana (sweet plantain fritters) served with the same peanut and satay sauce is sweet and spicy at the same time.
All the meat is Halal, indicative of the large Indonesian Muslim population in Suriname. Indonesian Suriname standards like Nasi (fried rice) and Bamie (fried noodles) are there along with stewed Chicken or Fish. However, if you go on a weekend, I suggest going with Rijs met Pom, one of their weekend specials. Pom is a layered casserole made with tannia and chicken. It is served with rice and red beans, vegetable (bok choy on the day I went), pickled cucumbers (pickled with rice vinegar and sugar), sambal (spicy condiment of chicken livers and chiles), and optional hot sauce. This filling and flavorful meal (photographed below) - all for $9.00!!!
You can have your standard iced tea, soda or lemonade, but I suggest ordering Dawet - a drink made with lemongrass, coconut milk and fresh, young coconut meat. Cool and refreshing with the spicy food.
Don't try looking at the menu online and pre-planning what you are going to order because I guarantee they won't have a number of things on the menu, but they do have both meat and vegetarian options and I can recommend everything, except the Satay.
It may seem very far out to travel - I had to take 4 trains from Brooklyn to get there, but they are short rides and it took me the same amount of time to get there as it does to get to Manhattan. Once you get there, there is a lot of shopping you can do - from Indian saris to spice shops to Bollywood DVD - the Caribbean Indian community is well represented in Richmond Hill. Dessert from the Little Guyana Bakery located 2 blocks from Warung Kario (128-12 Liberty Avenue) is a wonderful stop for coconut drops, currant rolls or cassava pone. Fish World (located 1 block past the Lefferts Blvd. train station) is a great spot for all sorts of fresh fish, including Guyana hassa and Suriname mullet, as well as Halal lamb and goat (at only $3.49/lb), perfect for making Lamb or Goat Curry for dinner the next day.
If you live anywhere in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens, Richmond Hill is a wonderful cultural excursion.
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The following nations have had female heads of government of some form (President, Queen, Prime Minister, Governor General, etc, although I skipped a few regencies even though I am aware that some regents wielded immense power, and I note that I tried to go with heads of state in their own countries which is why, for example, I consider Jeanne Sauve Canada’s first female head of government instead of Queen Victoria for the purposes of this list). I also want to note that many of the nations on this list are former colonies with borders and systems of government imposed by colonial nations; undoubtedly within all of these nations women led communities including sovereign ones, but it’s harder to find records on native communities, alas.
For your convenience, I’ve noted the year a woman was first elected/appointed to office, followed by her name. I am well aware that there are probably some errors on this list, between typos, disputes over what makes a country, and so forth, so please consider this a rough guide and add corrections in the comments if I have made glaring errors, please (or even not so glaring ones).
- Antigua and Barbuda (2007, Louise Lake-Tack)
- Argentina (1974, Isabel Martinez de Peron)
- Australia (1953, Queen Elizabeth II)
- Austria (1740, Queen Maria Theresia of Austria)
- Bahamas (2001, Dame Ivy Dumont)
- Bangladesh (1991, Khaleda Zia)
- Barbados (1990, Dane Nita Barrow)
- Belarus (1793, Queen Catherine the Great)
- Belize (1981, Dame Minita Gordon)
- Bolivia (1979, Lidia Gueler Tejada (acting President))
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (2007, Borjana Kristo)
- Bulgaria (1994, Reneta Indzhova (acting Prime Minister))
- Burundi (1992, Sylvia Kinigi)
- Canada (1984, Jeanne Sauve (Governor General)) (ETA: 1993, Kim Campbell, Prime Minister (see comments))
- Central African Republic (1975, Elisabeth Domitien)
- Ceylon (1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike)
- Chile (2006, Michelle Bachelet)
- Costa Rica (2010, Laura Chinchilla)
- Croatia (2009, Jadranka Kosor)
- Denmark (1387, Queen Margaret I)
- Dominica (1980, Eugenia Charles)
- Ecuador (1997, Rosalia Arteaga Serrano (acting President))
- Egypt (1806 BCE, Sobekneferu and yes that is the earliest recorded female head of state)
- Estonia (1632, Queen Christina of Sweden)
- Faroe Islands (1993, Marita Petersen)
- Finland (2000, Tarja Halonen)
- France (1991, Edith Cresson)
- Gabon (2009, Rose Francine Rogombe (acting President))
- Georgia (2003, Nino Burjanadze (acting President))
- Germany (2005, Angela Merkel)
- Guinea-Bissau (1984, Carmen Pereira)
- Guyana (1997, Janet Jagan)
- Haiti (1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot (acting President), 1995, Claudette Werleigh)
- Hungary (1382, Queen Mary of Hungary)
- Iceland (1980, Vigdis Finnbogadottir)
- India (1966, Indira Gandhi)
- Indonesia (2001, Megawati Sukarnoputri)
- Iran (631, Purandokht)
- Ireland (1990, Mary Robinson)
- Israel (1969, Golda Meir)
- Jamaica (2006, Portia Simpson-Miller)
- Japan (592, Empress Suiko)
- Latvia (1999, Vaira Vike-Freiberga)
- Lesotho (1970, Queen ‘Mamohato)
- Liberia (1996, Ruth Perry)
- Lithuania (1990, Kazimira Prunskiene)
- Luxembourg (1247, Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg)
- Macedonia (2004, Radmila Sekerinska (acting Prime Minister))
- Madagascar (2009, Cecile Manorohanta (acting Prime Minister))
- Malta (1982, Agatha Barbara)
- Moldova (2008, Zinaida Greceanii)
- Mongolia (1953, Sukhbaataryn Yanjmaa (acting Chair of the Presidium of the State Great Khural))
- Mozambique (2004, Luisa Diogo)
- Netherlands (1890, Queen Wilhelmina) (ETA: Queen Emma was regent from 1890-1898, see comments)
- New Zealand (1997, Jenny Shipley)
- Nicaragua (1990, Violeta Chamorro)
- ETA: Northern and Southern Netherlands (Present Day Netherlands and Belgium) (1559, Margaretha of Parma, vicequeen (see comments))
- Norway (1981, Gro Harlem Brundtland)
- Pakistan (1988, Benazir Bhutto)
- Panama (1999, Mireya Moscoso)
- People’s Republic of China (1968, Soong Ching-ling (acting Co-Chair)) (ETA: Also 690, Wu Zetian (see comments))
- Peru (2003, Beatriz Merino)
- Philippines (1986, Corazon Aquino)
- Poland (1991, Hanna Suchocka)
- Portugal (1979, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo)
- Russia (1725, Catherine I of Russia)
- Rwanda (1993, Agathe Uwilingiyimana)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (2002, Maria das Neves)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (1701, Queen Anne)
- Saint Lucia (1701, Queen Anne)
- San Marino (1981, Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1837, Queen Victoria)
- Senegal (2001, Mame Madior Boye)
- Serbia (1458, Queen Jelena)
- South Korea (2002, Chang Sang (acting Prime Minister), 2006, Han Myung Sook)
- Spain (1474, Isabel I)
- Sweden (1389, Margaret I)
- Switzerland (1984, Elisabeth Kopp)
- Sri Lanka (1970, also Sirimavo Bandaranaike)
- Tannu Tuva (1940, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka)
- Transkei (1987, Stella Sigcau)
- Turkey (1993, Tansu Ciller)
- Ukraine (2005, Yulia Tymoshenko)
- United Kingdom (1701, Queen Anne, also 1979, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher)
- Yugoslavia (1982, Milka Planinc)
The following have not. (To my knowledge, again, mistakes happen.)
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Chad
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Honduras
- Iraq
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Oman
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tibet
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenista
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
That is all.
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