Soups

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Bread Soup

Brotsuppe

Traditional Bavarian bread soup made with stale bread, broth, and various seasonings.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Brezade

Brezade is an Alpine vegetable soup combining seasonal greens, potatoes, and broth into a warming bowl with a clear herbal character.

🇮🇹Italy

Brodetto alla vastese

In Abruzzo, Brodetto alla vastese is mixed Adriatic fish cooked with garlic, tomato, vinegar, and olive oil.

🇮🇩South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Brother Soup

Sop Saudara

Makassar beef soup similar to coto but with different spice blend, served with rice.

🇱🇾Libya

Broudou

A light vegetable and chicken soup with barley, chickpeas or freekeh and plenty of coriander.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Brown Bean Soup

Bruine bonen soep

Hearty soup made with brown beans, vegetables, and smoked meat, similar to pea soup but with beans, a winter comfort food.

🇮🇹Italy

Bro’ brusà

In Italy, Bro’ brusà is toasted bread simmered in broth and finished with cheese.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Buche e Perico

Buche e' perico

A Dominican soup of fish, plantain, and herbs with a distinctive minty, savory flavor.

🇨🇳China

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall

佛跳墙

A sealed jar of abalone, sea cucumber, scallop, ham, quail egg and mushroom steamed for hours in Shaoxing wine and superior stock.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Bugandi Egg Drop Soup

Light soup of spinach, spring onions, and choko shoots boiled in water with a raw egg dropped in while cooking — a simple, nourishing PNG soup from the Bugandi region.

🇳🇨Isle of Pines, New Caledonia

Bulime

Bulime; a giant land snail endemic to the Isle of Pines; a local delicacy; served with garlic and butter or in soups; a unique New Caledonian specialty; a feature of island cuisine

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Bun Bo Hue

Bún bò Huế

Bún bò Huế is Hue's spicy beef-and-pork noodle soup, built on thick round rice noodles, lemongrass, shrimp paste, and chilli.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bun Rieu

Bún riêu

Tomato and crab noodle soup with rice vermicelli, pork broth, crab paste, fried tofu, and blood cubes, garnished with perilla and banana blossom.

🇮🇹Liguria, Italy

Burrida (Liguria)

Burrida is a Ligurian fish dish in a sweet-sour walnut-and-vinegar sauce.

🇱🇸Lesotho

Butha-buthe Soup

Butha-buthe

A spinach and tangerine soup from Butha-Buthe district, made with split peas, onions, rice flour, turmeric, coriander, and tangerine juice and zest, finished with a dollop of yogurt.

🇻🇬British Virgin Islands

BVI Bullfoot Soup

Bullfoot Soup

Traditional Caribbean soup made with bull foot or cow heel meat, onions, garlic, carrots, corn, green bananas, yams, Scotch bonnet pepper, thyme, and dumplings; long cooking transforms tough meat into tender bites with thick, collagen-rich broth; a BVI heritage soup.

🇻🇬British Virgin Islands

BVI Peas Soup

Peas Soup

Hearty soup made with pigeon peas, salted pig tails, ham hocks, salted beef, or turkey necks, sweet potatoes, and cornmeal dumplings; a restorative meal and traditional BVI soup.

🇻🇳Hai Phong, Vietnam

Bánh đa cua (Red Noodle Soup with Crab)

Bánh đa cua

Banh da cua, the red rice-noodle crab soup of Hai Phong, is a named city dish and a defining northern speciality.

🇻🇳Da Nang, Vietnam

Bún chả cá (Fried Fish Cake Noodle Soup)

Bún chả cá

Bun cha ca, the fried fish-cake noodle soup of the central coast, is a named regional dish with its own shops in Da Nang, Quy Nhon and Nha Trang.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bún măng vịt (Duck Noodle Soup with Bamboo Shoots)

Bún măng vịt

Bun mang vit, duck and bamboo-shoot noodle soup, is a named Vietnamese dish with dedicated restaurants.

🇻🇳Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Bún mắm (Fermented Fish Noodle Soup)

Bún mắm

Bun mam, the pungent Mekong noodle soup built on fermented fish, is a named regional dish and a genuine test-of-nerve collectible.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Bún mọc (Pork Ball Vermicelli Soup)

Bún mọc

Bun moc, the clear pork-ball vermicelli soup of Hanoi, is a named northern dish distinct from the other bun soups accepted here.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Bún ốc (Snail Noodle Soup)

Bún ốc

Bun oc, the tomato-and-snail vermicelli soup, is a named Hanoi speciality and one of the city's defining bowls.

🇪🇪Estonia

Cabbage Soup

Kapsasupp

Simple cabbage soup with potatoes and vegetables, sometimes with beans or meat, an everyday Estonian soup.

🇫🇮Finland

Cabbage Soup

Kaalikeitto

Hearty cabbage soup often made with beef, cabbage, root vegetables, and aromatic herbs like marjoram and bay leaves.

🇱🇻Latvia

Cabbage Soup

Kāpostu zupa

Simple flavorful soup with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, sometimes smoked sausage, seasoned with caraway and dill.

🇸🇪Sweden

Cabbage Soup

Kålsoppa

Traditional Swedish cabbage soup, often made with white cabbage, pork, and root vegetables.

🇧🇷Pernambuco, Brazil

Cabeça de Galo

A Pernambuco peppery broth thickened with eggs and cassava flour, traditionally served as a restorative meal.

🇲🇶Martinique

Calalou Soup

Calalou

A traditional peasant soup made with a mix of herbs known as herbages (purslane, spinach, taro leaves, okra, and French thyme); those who prefer a more decadent version may add pork or crab; the calalou that is a Martinican peasant classic.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Calalú

A Dominican soup of African origin with taro leaves (yautía), okra, pork, and seafood, simmered with coconut milk. A coastal and southern specialty, rich and earthy.

🇧🇴Potosí, Bolivia

Calapurca

Kalapurka

A pre-Hispanic Andean soup of corn, meat, and potatoes thickened by a heated stone, prepared in highland Potosí and Arica during cold-weather celebrations.

🇮🇹Italy

Caldaro

In Italy, Caldaro is Abruzzo fish soup with assorted fish, tomato, garlic, and parsley.

🇨🇱Chile

Caldillo de Congrio

Hearty fish soup made with conger eel, onions, garlic, tomatoes, carrots, and cream, a Chilean coastal specialty.

🇧🇷Brazil

Caldinho de Feijão

A small cup of thin, smoky black bean broth served as a starter in Brazilian bars, often with diced sausage, bacon, coriander and a splash of cachaça.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Caldo de Bolas de Verde

An Ecuadorian soup of green plantain balls stuffed with meat, in a savory broth with peanuts and vegetables, a coastal classic.

🇵🇪Peru

Caldo de Cabeza

A deeply flavored Peruvian head-meat broth served hot with herbs and potatoes.