After yesterday’s successful fishing, today it was time to cook and eat the fish and celebrate. Today was November 25, Independence Day (Srefidensi Dey) in Suriname. Yesterday, people worked hard to collect food for an enormous feast throughout the entire country. The men collected the food and the women cooked it. Together they make the best combination of tasty food and traditional partying. Some of the food included was: Pom, a chicken dish made with tayer, Pastei, a creole-style chicken pot pie, Dhal, a lentil stew, Roti - grilled flatbread, Curry Dishes, like this chicken curry (Massalakip), vegetables with peanut sauce (gado-gado style Indonesian dish), Bakabana - fried plantain with peanut sauce
, Goedangan - mixed vegetable salad with coconut dressing, Coconut Desserts, Bojo cake - made with coconut and cassava
, and Phulauri (fried lentil or chickpea balls). My favorite meal though was probably the standard fish and chicken with a side of rice. After we ate, we enjoyed many different dances, my favorite being the Jaran Kepang. Jaran Kepang means weaved bamboo bobby-horse. Dancers perform a dance, interpreting horses with riders on their backs. During the dance, they ride a flat hobby-horse made of weaved bamboo or leather. At the beginning of the dance they move orderly, in time with the music. At a certain moment, some dancers go into a trance and act like horses, running and jumping, some moving wildly and others calmly. During the trance phase they drink a lot of water, eat raw grass, banana leaves, flowers and raw rice grains, like real horses would. After a fantastic day of stuffing our gullets with delicious foods and exotic dancing, tomorrow we would be put straight right back into the work environment.
, Goedangan - mixed vegetable salad with coconut dressing, Coconut Desserts, Bojo cake - made with coconut and cassava, and Phulauri (fried lentil or chickpea balls). My favorite meal though was probably the standard fish and chicken with a side of rice. After we ate, we enjoyed many different dances, my favorite being the Jaran Kepang. Jaran Kepang means weaved bamboo bobby-horse. Dancers perform a dance, interpreting horses with riders on their backs. During the dance, they ride a flat hobby-horse made of weaved bamboo or leather. At the beginning of the dance they move orderly, in time with the music. At a certain moment, some dancers go into a trance and act like horses, running and jumping, some moving wildly and others calmly. During the trance phase they drink a lot of water, eat raw grass, banana leaves, flowers and raw rice grains, like real horses would. After a fantastic day of stuffing our gullets with delicious foods and exotic dancing, tomorrow we would be put straight right back into the work environment.
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