Soups

🇵🇾Paraguay

Soyo

So'o Josopy

Thick soup of beef minced to a paste on the pestle (so'o josopy), simmered with vegetables until the broth turns silky and substantial — Guaraní technique in a colonial pot.

🇦🇲Armenia

Spas

Սպաս

Matsun thinned with broth and thickened with wheat groats, then finished with a great deal of chopped mint and coriander — served hot or cold.

🇰🇷South Korea

Spicy Beef Soup

육개장

A spicy soup with shredded beef brisket, fernbrake (gosari), bean sprouts, and scallions in a rich chili-based broth.

🇫🇮Finland

Spinach Soup

Pinaattikeitto

Traditional spinach soup made with spinach, butter, flour, milk, topped with hard-boiled egg halves.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Split Pea Soup

Erwtensoep

Thick hearty split pea soup with pork, leeks, carrots, celery, and potatoes, thick enough to stand a spoon upright.

🇪🇪Estonia

Spring Nettle Soup

Nogesesupp

Spring nettle soup with egg and dill.

🇨🇳Yunnan, China

Steam Pot Chicken

汽锅鸡

Chicken steamed for hours in a lidded clay pot with a central chimney, so the soup is condensed steam rather than added water.

🇷🇴Dobruja, Romania

Storceag

Fish soup with sour cream and egg, soured with vinegar or lemon juice, from the Danube and Black Sea regions.

🇮🇹Lazio, Italy

Stracciatella alla Romana

In Lazio, Stracciatella alla Romana is beaten egg and Parmesan stirred into hot meat broth.

🇬🇱Greenland

Suaasat

Greenland's national soup, simmered with lawful locally available proteins such as fish, reindeer, or lamb, plus onion and potato, and often thickened with rice or barley.

🇫🇮Finland

Summer Soup

Kesäkeitto

Traditional vegetable soup cooked in milk with butter, potatoes, carrots, peas, cauliflower and seasonal vegetables.

🇰🇵Pyongyang, North Korea

Sungeo-guk

숭어국

A clear soup of flathead grey mullet caught in Pyongyang's Taedong River; the cleaned fish (skin intact) is cut into pieces, salted, and boiled with black pepper and soy sauce; sprinkled with scallions or cilantro; a Pyongyang delicacy prized for the mullet's flavor, served hot with garlic, peppers, tofu, or red bean paste on the side.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Sup Kambing

Soup Kambing

Goat meat soup with spices, clear greenish-gold broth with tender meat and aromatic spices.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Supu ya Kichwa

Goat or cow head boiled overnight into a peppery broth and drunk in the morning from a bowl with lime.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Supu ya Malenge

A Tanzanian pumpkin soup, creamy and gently spiced, often with coconut milk.

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Supu ya Ndizi

Green banana soup cooked with meat, coconut milk and a little curry powder into a thick, mild broth.

🇸🇪Sweden

Svartsoppa

Svartsoppa is a soup from Skåne County, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇷🇺Russia

Svekolnik

Свекольник

Svekolnik is a chilled Russian beet soup with beet broth, crisp vegetables, and kvass or kefir.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Swala

Salty soup from the Yei tribe of South Sudan; made with onions, tomatoes, and okra, boiled together and lightly seasoned; the key is the kombo (peanut) base; a regional specialty; served with kisra or asida.

🇧🇾Belarus

Swede Soup

Грыжанка

Swede and carrot stewed down in milk with a little flour until sweet and thick, one of the root soups that carried Belarusian villages through late winter.

🇭🇺Szeged, Hungary

Szeged Fish Soup

Szegedi halászlé

Szeged fish soup is a thick paprika-red Tisza fish soup made with river fish.

🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

Sūpu karē

スープカレー

Soup curry is the thin spiced Sapporo curry served as a broth with whole roasted vegetables.

🇧🇷Pará, Brazil

Tacacá

An Amazonian street soup of tucupi broth, jambu leaves, dried shrimp, and tapioca gum, served steaming in a cuia bowl.

🇮🇩East Java, Indonesia

Tahu campur

Tahu campur is the Lamongan bowl of beef tendon broth over fried tofu, noodles and petis.

🇹🇼Tainan, Taiwan

Tainan Beef Soup

台南牛肉湯

Tainan's clear-broth beef soup breakfast, built around thin slices of fresh beef and a light, aromatic stock.

🇮🇩West Java, Indonesia

Tamarind Vegetable Soup

Sayur Asem

Sour tamarind-based vegetable soup with various vegetables, refreshing Sundanese specialty.

🇻🇺Tanna, Vanuatu

Tanna Soup

Tanna soup is a hearty Vanuatu pot soup of manioc or taro, vegetables, and chicken or other local protein, sometimes enriched with coconut milk.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Tarator

Таратор

A cold Bulgarian soup of diluted yogurt, minced cucumber, garlic, dill and walnuts, served chilled in summer.

🇹🇷Turkey

Tarhana Çorbası

A soup made from tarhana, a traditional fermented dried food made from wheat, yogurt, vegetables, and herbs. The tarhana is dissolved in water or broth and simmered into a tangy, comforting soup. One of the oldest preserved foods in Turkish cuisine, tarhana has been made for centuries.

🇮🇶Baghdad, Iraq

Tashreeb

تشريب

Flat bread torn into a bowl and soaked in lamb or chicken broth with chickpeas and stewed meat piled on top.

🇵🇭Mindanao, Philippines

Tausug Black Soup

Tiyula Itum

A Tausug black soup made with beef or goat and charred coconut, known as 'food for royalty' in Sulu.

🇩🇿Algeria

Tchicha

تشيشة

Crushed barley or freekeh cooked into a thick soup with lamb, chickpeas and vegetables, eaten in the Aurès and the east.

🇮🇩Surakarta (Solo), Indonesia

Tengkleng

Tengkleng is a Solo soup of goat bones and meat simmered with spices in a light, savoury broth.

🇳🇵Nepal

Thenthuk

थेनथुक

A Nepali-Tibetan noodle soup with hand-torn noodles, a mountain and daily classic

🇵🇭Philippines

Thin Wheat Noodle Soup

Misua

A thin wheat noodle soup, often with meatballs and patola (sponge gourd), served for birthdays and comfort.

🇨🇦Canada

Three Sisters Soup

Soupe des trois sœurs

A soup built around corn, beans, and squash—the Three Sisters crops cultivated together by Indigenous communities across North America, including Canada.