Soups

🇺🇸Hawaii, United States

Saimin

A Hawaiian noodle soup of wheat-egg noodles in dashi broth with char siu, fish cake, and green onion.

🇧🇱Saint Barthélemy

Saint Barts Cotriade

Cotriade

Traditional Breton fish soup adapted in Saint Barthélemy; made with various local Caribbean fish, potatoes, onions, garlic, and local thyme; prepared by the authentic Breton community in Toiny; reflects French regional nostalgia among descendants of Breton settlers. Saint Barthélemy's cotriade is a rare local fish soup built from the island's catch.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Callaloo Soup

Callaloo Soup

Traditional Saint Lucian soup made from callaloo greens (dasheen leaves), coconut milk, onions, garlic, and local spices; a popular local dish; often includes crab or other seafood; a Creole classic; the callaloo soup of Saint Lucia; a velvety, green, comforting soup; a staple of Creole cooking.

🇴🇲Oman

Sakhana

سخانة

Sakhana is a thick Omani soup made with wheat, dates, molasses, and milk, typically served during Ramadan with creamy sweetness.

🇫🇮Finland

Salmon Soup

Lohikeitto

Creamy salmon soup with chunks of salmon fillet, potatoes, carrots in a buttery broth with cream and fresh dill.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Salmorejo

Salmorejo cordobes

A thicker, creamier cousin of gazpacho from Cordoba, made with pureed tomatoes, bread, garlic, olive oil, and vinegar, garnished with jamon and egg.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Samlor Machu

សម្លម្ជូរ

Sour soup of fish or chicken with tamarind, lemongrass, and kroeung, loaded with tomatoes, pineapple, water spinach, and basil.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Samlor Prahal

សម្លប្រហាល

Sour fish soup with tamarind, lemongrass, and water spinach, thickened with prahok and brightened with krasang leaves.

🇸🇲San Marino

Sammarinese Pasta Squares

Bobolotti

A nearly disappeared Sammarinese soup; a sheet of flour, water, and salt cut into squares, boiled with lard and dark beans; a humble peasant dish from the Republic's rural past; almost completely disappeared from modern tables; a historic dish of San Marino; the pasta square soup of the Titano.

🇱🇹Samogitia, Lithuania

Samogitian Herring-and-Onion Soup

Cibulinė

Samogitian herring-and-onion soup from the Žemaitija coast.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Sancocho

Big pot of meat or fish boiled with yuca, ñame, plantain, corn and coriander, cooked outdoors and shared straight from the pot.

🇨🇴Atlántico, Colombia

Sancocho de Guandú

A pigeon-pea sancocho from Colombia's Atlántico coast, served with meat, plantain and rice.

🇵🇪Cusco, Peru

Saralawa

A Cusco corn-and-herb soup rooted in Quechua highland cooking.

🇲🇾Sarawak, Malaysia

Sarawak Laksa

Laksa Sarawak

Coconut milk, and special spices, distinctive spice blend with reddish-brown broth.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Saturday Beef Soup

Saturday soup

A traditional Jamaican Saturday soup of beef, yam, coco, carrots, dumplings and spinners in a rich, seasoned broth, a weekend family staple of Taíno origin.

🇪🇪Estonia

Sauerkraut Soup

Hapukapsasupp

Soup made with fermented sauerkraut and smoked meat, a warming winter dish with rich tangy broth.

🇱🇻Latvia

Sauerkraut Soup

Skābu kāpostu zupa

Warming soup with sauerkraut, meat broth, potatoes, carrots and smoked meat, hearty and tangy.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Schneckensuppe

Schneckensuppe is a Baden snail soup with garlic, herbs and cream or stock carrying the delicate shellfish flavour.

🇩🇪Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Schwarzsauer

Schwarzsauer is a North German blood soup sharpened with vinegar and cooked with pork, onions and dried fruit.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotch Broth

A thick barley soup made on mutton or lamb stock with root vegetables and dried peas, cooked long enough to be a meal.

🇰🇷South Korea

Seaweed Soup

미역국

A comforting soup with brown seaweed (miyeok) and beef broth, traditionally eaten on birthdays and after childbirth.

🇷🇴Romania

Semolina Dumpling Soup

Supă de găluște

A clear chicken and root vegetable broth with light semolina dumplings floated in it.

🇦🇹Austria

Semolina Soup

Grießnockerlsuppe

Beef broth with light semolina dumplings (Grießnockerl) as the main ingredient, a classic Austrian soup, delicate and comforting.

🇺🇸United States

Senate Bean Soup

The U.S. Senate's daily navy-bean soup, thick with ham and onion — on the menu since 1903.

🇰🇷South Korea

Seonji Guk

선지국

A beef blood-cake soup, hearty and iron-rich, served at Korean soup houses.

🇳🇪Niger

Sesame Leaf Soup

Miyan Karkashi

A silky, mucilaginous Nigerien draw soup made from sesame leaves (karkashi), simmered with dried fish, potash, and ground crayfish; slightly green and sticky, served with tuwo dawa or masara.

🇵🇪Trujillo, Peru

Shambar

Trujillo's Monday soup combining wheat, beans, pork and herbs into a thick restorative bowl.

🇱🇾Libya

Sharba Libiya Bil Dajaj

A Libyan chicken soup, rich with tomato, chickpeas, and warming spices, served with lemon.

🇷🇺Russia

Shchi

Щи

Shchi is a Russian cabbage soup made with sour cabbage, meat, and mushrooms, often served with rye bread.

🇺🇸United States

She-crab soup

A Charleston soup of crabmeat and crab roe in a rich, sherry-cream base.

🇬🇪Georgia

Shechamandi

Შეჩამანდი

Shechamandi is a thin Georgian soup of flour or cornmeal soured with matsoni or plum and served hot with bread; it is separate from Abkhazura meat patties.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Shepherd's Boletus Soup

Čobanska krem supa od vrganja

Cep mushrooms from the Durmitor and Bjelasica forests cooked down with cream into a thick soup, served with fried bread.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Shkembe Chorba

Шкембе чорба

Tripe simmered in milk until white and thick, finished at the table with garlic crushed in vinegar and dried hot pepper. Bulgaria's hangover cure, sold around the clock.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Shorbet Ads

شوربة عدس

An Egyptian lentil soup, thick and golden, seasoned with cumin and lemon and often finished with a swirl of oil.

🇰🇷South Korea

Short Rib Soup

갈비탕

A clear, rich soup made by boiling beef short ribs with radish for hours, with tender meat that falls off the bone.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Shorwa

شوروا

Lamb on the bone simmered with potato, chickpea and tomato into a plain broth, poured over torn bread.