Surinamese cuisine is a combination of many international cuisines including Indian, African, Javanese (Indonesian), Chinese, Dutch, Jewish, Portuguese, and Amerindian cuisines. The different groups were influenced by each other's dishes and ingredients; this new Surinamese cuisine included roti, nasi goreng, bami and pom. Basic foods include rice, plants such as tayer and cassava, and roti. Usually, there is chicken on the menu in many variations of the Chinese snesi foroe, the Indian chicken masala and pom, a very popular party dish of Creole origin. Also, salted meat and stockfish are widely used. Yardlong beans, okra, and eggplant are examples of vegetables in the Surinamese kitchen.