Soups

🇩🇪Germany

Wedding Soup

Hochzeitssuppe

Traditional wedding soup with chicken broth, meatballs, asparagus, and egg custard (Eierstich).

🇺🇸United States

Wedding Soup

An Italian-American soup of meatballs, greens (usually escarole), and tiny pasta in chicken broth.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

Whelk Soup

A traditional 'hardship dish' made from tiny whelks (shellfish) collected along rocky shores; a Salt Cay specialty; a distinctive Turks and Caicos tradition Salt Cay and Turks and Caicos cooks make this hardship-era soup from whelk and local aromatics.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

White Garlic Soup

Ajoblanco

A cold almond and garlic soup from Malaga and Granada, made with bread, crushed almonds, garlic, olive oil, and vinegar, served with grapes or melon.

🇲🇹Malta

Widow's Soup

Soppa tal-armla

Whatever cheap vegetables are to hand simmered into a broth and finished with a fresh ġbejna and a poached egg dropped in.

🇷🇴Romania

Wild Mushroom Sour Soup

Ciorbă de urechiușe

Wild wood-ear mushrooms (urechiușe) simmered with vegetables in a borș-soured broth, finished with sour cream and dill.

🇺🇸United States

Williamsburg Peanut Soup

A Virginia soup of smooth peanut butter and chicken stock, creamy and rich.

🇺🇸United States

Wisconsin Cheddar Beer Soup

A Wisconsin tavern soup of sharp cheddar and beer, thick and creamy.

🇵🇱Silesia, Poland

Wodzionka

Wodzionka is a soup from Silesian Voivodeship, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇨🇳Guangzhou, China

Wonton Soup

馄饨汤

A Chinese soup of delicate pork-and-shrimp wontons in a clear, savoury broth, garnished with scallions and sesame oil.

🇺🇸United States

Yaka Mein

A New Orleans noodle soup of beef broth, spaghetti, green onion, and a half egg — 'Old Sober'.

🇨🇳Guangdong, China

Yan Wo (Bird's nest soup)

燕窝汤

Clear soup of swiftlet nest dissolved in sweet stock; the nest is almost pure protein thread and gives a slippery, faintly glutinous texture. Trade is dominated by purpose-built nest farms.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Yaohon

យ៉ាវហន

Cambodian hot pot with a clear broth of pork bones, prahok, and kroeung, cooked at the table with raw fish, shrimp, squid, beef, vegetables, and rice noodles.

🇹🇷Black Sea Region, Turkey

Yayla Çorbası

A creamy yogurt and rice soup from the Black Sea highlands, seasoned with dried mint and a swirl of butter with red pepper flakes. The yogurt gives it a tangy, comforting flavor. It is a classic winter soup and a staple of Turkish home cooking.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Yellow Fish Soup

Ikan Kuah Kuning

Maluku and Papuan yellow fish soup with turmeric, served with papeda, rich and aromatic.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Yellow Pea Soup

Soupe aux pois

Thick yellow split pea soup with salt pork, traditional Québécois comfort food from early French settlers.

🇸🇪Sweden

Yellow Pea Soup

Ärtsoppa

Hearty yellow pea soup with pork, traditionally served on Thursdays since the Middle Ages, with mustard on the side.

🇮🇱Israel

Yemenite Soup

מרק תימני

Beef or chicken on the bone simmered with potato, tomato and hawaij spice into a clear golden broth, served with hilbeh and schug.

🇹🇭Thailand

Yen Ta Fo

เย็นตะโฟ

Thai pink noodle soup with fermented tofu, morning glory, squid, and fish balls in a light pink broth.

🇬🇷Greece

Youvarlakia

Γιουβαρλάκια

Greek meatball soup: ground meat and rice balls simmered in broth, finished with avgolemono sauce. A comforting, silky, tangy soup, a home and taverna classic, served hot.

🇹🇷Gaziantep, Turkey

Yuvarlama çorbası

Yuvarlama corbasi, the Gaziantep Eid soup of tiny bulgur-and-meat balls in yoghurt with chickpeas, is a named ceremonial dish with a real calendar identity.

🇵🇱Poland

Zalewajka

Zalewajka is a soup from Radomsko, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Zatirka

Затірка

Peasant soup of broth thickened with small rubbed pellets of egg-and-flour dough, plus potato and bay.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Zelenyi Borshch

Зелений борщ

Sorrel borsch: bright green, tart, studded with potato, egg and dill, served hot or chilled.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Zelňačka

A Czech sauerkraut soup with sausage, potatoes, and cream, a daily and home classic

🇨🇳China

Zhu za tang (Pig's organ soup)

Zhu za tang is a Teochew soup of pork organs and peppery broth, served from Singapore hawker stalls.

🇧🇾Belarus

Zhur

Жур

Sour soup built on oat or rye flour left to ferment for days, then boiled out with smoked pork ribs and potatoes into something between a broth and a thin porridge.

🇵🇱Poland

Zupa Chłopska

'Peasant's soup': a rustic Polish soup of smoked pork, potatoes, carrots, and leeks in a hearty broth. A filling, savory countryside soup, served with bread.

🇵🇱Poland

Zupa Dziadowska

'Beggar's soup': a rustic highland soup of whatever vegetables and grains are at hand, simmered with meat or mushrooms. A poor-man's dish, hearty and simple.

🇵🇱Poland

Zupa Grzybowa

Polish mushroom soup of dried forest mushrooms (porcini), cream, and noodles, earthy and aromatic. A Christmas Eve and autumn classic, rich and savory.

🇵🇱Poland

Zupa Migdalowa

Christmas almond soup.

🇵🇱Poland

Zupa Ogórkowa

Polish sour cucumber soup made with pickled cucumbers (ogórki kiszone), potatoes, and carrots in a meat broth. Tangy, hearty, and savory, a winter staple.

🇵🇱Poland

Zupa Pomidorowa

Polish tomato soup, made from tomato paste or fresh tomatoes with a meat broth base, served with rice or noodles. A childhood and home-cooked classic, creamy and tangy.

🇵🇱Poland

Zupa Szczawiowa

Sorrel soup.

🇯🇵Kansai, Japan

Zōni

雑煮

New Year's soup with mochi rice cakes, varying dramatically by region (clear Kanto vs miso Kansai).

🇦🇽Åland Islands

Åland Fish Soup

Åländsk fisksoppa

Rich, creamy soup made with fresh Baltic fish (perch, pike, or salmon), potatoes, carrots, leeks, onions, cream, and dill; a traditional hearty soup perfect with black bread;.