Soups

🇮🇩West Sumatra, Indonesia

Padang Soto

Soto Padang

Clear beef soup from Padang with fried beef slices, crispy fried vermicelli, and potato patties.

🇨🇱Chile

Paila Marina

Traditional seafood soup served in earthenware bowl with shellfish, fish, herbs and spices, a coastal Chilean classic.

🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia

Palembang Sour Fish Soup

Pindang Palembang

Palembang sour-spicy fish soup with fresh fish, aromatic spices, and tamarind base.

🇨🇫Central African Republic

Palm Butter Soup (CAR)

Palm Butter Soup

A rich, red soup made from pounded palm nut pulp simmered with chicken, smoked fish, peanuts, okra and leafy greens; thickened by the natural palm oil and served with fufu or rice.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Palm Nut Soup

Abenkwan

Palm fruit boiled and pounded, the extracted cream simmered with fish, snails, goat or beef into a thick orange soup.

🇭🇺Northern Hungary, Hungary

Palóc Soup

Palócleves

Palóc Soup is a light goulash-style soup with meat, green beans, potatoes, carrots, and sour cream, lighter than goulash with slight sourness.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pan Mee

板面

Flat handmade noodles in soup with anchovies, mushrooms, and egg, handmade noodle texture with flavorful anchovy broth.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Pancake Soup

Frittatensuppe

Clear beef broth with thin strips of savory pancake (Frittaten) added before serving, a classic Viennese soup, delicate and comforting.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Pancake Soup

Flädlesuppe

Classic Swabian soup with thin strips of savory pancakes added to rich beef or vegetable broth.

🇨🇱Chile

Pantrucas

Beef broth with homemade flour pasta strips, vegetables, and meat, a simple and comforting Chilean country soup.

🇨🇳China

Pao Fan

泡饭

Rice cooked or steeped in a rich seafood broth until the grains loosen, served with prawns, crab or fish and topped with crisped rice puffs.

🇴🇲Oman

Paplou Soup

بابلو

Citrusy fish soup with tuna, dried lime, garlic, ginger, turmeric, and fresh herbs, served over rice, balanced tangy flavor from dried lime with fresh fish and aromatic broth, a coastal Omani specialty, hearty and comforting.

🇮🇹Florence, Italy

Pappa al pomodoro

Tuscan tomato-and-bread soup.

🇵🇪Peru

Parihuela

Rich, spicy Peruvian seafood soup with fish, shellfish, octopus, and crab in a tomato-ají broth. Often called the 'bouillabaisse of Peru.'

🇵🇱Poland

Parzybroda

Parzybroda is a soup from Kielce, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇵🇪Cusco, Peru

Patasca

A highland tripe and mote corn soup, often served at festivals in Cusco and Puno.

🇬🇷Greece

Patsas

Πάτσας

Greek tripe soup of pork tripe, garlic, and vinegar, a hearty, rustic winter dish. A traditional hangover cure, served hot with vinegar and garlic, a taverna and home classic.

🇩🇪Germany

Pea Soup

Erbsensuppe

Soup from dried peas, often with smoked meat, hearty and warming.

🇪🇪Estonia

Pea Soup

Hernesupp

Traditional split pea soup with smoked pork hock, a classic Thursday dish and Shrovetide tradition.

🇫🇮Finland

Pea Soup

Hernekeitto

Thick split pea soup cooked with pork, traditionally prepared and served every Thursday throughout Finland.

🇭🇺Hungary

Pea Soup

Borsóleves

Pea soup is a Hungarian clear soup with green peas, carrots, parsley root, pinched noodles, and paprika.

🇱🇻Latvia

Pea Soup

Zirņu zupa

Hearty soup with dried peas, pearl barley, smoked meat and root vegetables, traditionally for Christmas and winter.

🇸🇷Suriname

Peanut Soup

Pindasoep

Ground peanuts cooked into a thick brown soup with chicken or salted meat, hot pepper and tom tom — pounded plantain dumplings.

🇨🇴Santander, Colombia

Pebre Santandereano

A Santander soup of beef, pork, offal, corn, and vegetables, slow-cooked until thick. A rustic, hearty highland stew, served with avocado and arepa.

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Penang Hokkien Mee

福建虾面

Penang-style prawn noodle soup with pork ribs, prawns, and egg noodles, deep prawn broth with spicy kick.

🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea

Pepper Soup

Pepesup

The national signature dish of Equatorial Guinea: a spicy fish soup with white fish, tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, Scotch bonnet peppers, and palm oil; the broth is fiery and aromatic.

🇱🇷Liberia

Pepper Soup

Thin, fiery broth of goat, catfish or chicken spiced with uda, uziza seed and calabash nutmeg, drunk as much as eaten.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Pepperpot Soup

Callaloo and Indian kale boiled down with salt beef, pig's tail, okra, coconut milk and spinners into a thick dark green soup.

🇸🇷Suriname

Pepre Watra

Pepre watra is a clear Surinamese fish soup sharpened with Madame Jeanette pepper, herbs and a light broth, often eaten with rice.

🇺🇸Philadelphia, United States

Philadelphia Pepper Pot

A peppery tripe soup with vegetables and herbs, born in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Pho Bo

Phở bò

Vietnamese beef noodle soup with flat rice noodles in a clear, slowly simmered bone broth, topped with thinly sliced beef, herbs, and lime.

🇳🇨Nouméa, New Caledonia

Pho Nouméa

New Caledonian pho is a Vietnamese-style noodle soup with aromatic broth, rice noodles, herbs, and beef or chicken, eaten in the island's Vietnamese community.

🇧🇴La Paz, Bolivia

Picana Paceña

A Bolivian Christmas Eve soup with lamb, beef, pork, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and wine, a festive and hearty classic.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Pira Caldo

Fish soup made with river fish, fat, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, parsley, and spices, a traditional Paraguayan dish.

🇻🇪Mérida, Venezuela

Pisca Andina

Andean breakfast soup of potato, milk, coriander and a poached egg, thin and hot and eaten before dawn in the mountains.

🇫🇷Provence, France

Pistou Soup

Soupe au pistou

Provencal vegetable soup with basil and garlic pistou, a summer classic.