Mirosso

Kitchen: Indonesian

Mirosso special

The best way to celebrate International Women’s Day is with good food! So, accompanied by my girl friend, her aunt, niece and nephew, we visit Mirosso, an old time favorite in Paramaribo. The restaurant is situated in the northern area, known as Blauwgrond.
Mirosso started out as a small warung in a family home. Now, it is a professional restaurant with a terrace, air conditioned rooms etc. We are seated in the middle area: this provides an in- and outside feel at the same time. On the menu: classics such as rending, ayam opor and semur ikan. We go for saoto soup for starters, and then the Mirosso ‘special’, nasi rames and sateh sapi (beef).

We are served chicken sateh by mistake. When we try to send the dish back, the waitresses publicly questions whether we indeed ordered the sapi. Not a sign of good service. When delivered, the beef sateh is overly seasoned and tough to chew. Revenge of the cook..?
It doesn’t matter: the rest of the meal is fine. The Mirosso ‘special’: fried noodles with liver and kidney, vermicelli chicken, rice with crunchy vegetables and sambal. You don’t need extra hot sauce to spice up this dish, it is spicy enough as it is. The yellow rice (kuning) is also delicious, as is the accompanying spicy chicken.

In the weekends, Mirosso serves a specialty: green dawet. Dawet is a drink with coconut milk, pandan and little soft balls made of riceflower and starch. Very, very, very tasty! The service is friendly, but as I mentioned before, not 100% accurate. Also quite slow. But I don’t want to stress the negative: I will surely return, especially for the noodles with liver and the green dawet!

Food 8 | Atmosphere 7 | Service 6-