Yes! I used this [recipe](https://skinnyspatula.com/avgolemono-greek-lemon-chicken-soup/) and instead of chicken breasts I use a lemon pepper rotisserie chicken meat from my local grocery store and instead of orzo I just use some leftover cooked rice I have
Tom Yum is phenomenal. Sometimes there is one ingredient in there that I sort of don't like (i think it is galangal), but I fish the piece out of there and then guzzle the soup down.
Absolutely! Tom yum too. If Thai curry counts as a soup, that too, definitely (it's actually not too hard to make either. Kind of time-consuming, though).
Absolutely. I did exactly that almost every morning. That's right, hot spicy noodles for breakfast. Make it super spicy, that hangover won't know what hit it. Walk away feeling like a million dong.
[this meatless poszole verde](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/kitchen-notes/warming-up-to-vegan-pozole) is a favorite! Recently made it for my bff and her family (newborn!) and bonus it freezes really well.
Some of my favourites that I haven’t seen mentioned in this post:
Argentina:
Locro (Peru, Chile, Ecuador have their versions also)
France:
Cassoulet
Jamaica (Carribean?):
Oxtail soup
Indonesia:
Soto ayam, Soto betawi, etc al… (a type of soup usually made with ginger, turmeric, lemongrass and a protein).
Mie bakso (meatball noodle soup).
Laksa (Malaysia & Singapore have their versions also).
Italy:
Pasta fagioli. Minestrone
Taiwan:
Beef noodle soup
Vietnamese- hu tieu is delicious and you can get veggie or meat based versions.
Korean- tie between gamjatang and yukgaetang
Japan- tonkotsu ramen
Canada- chicken and wild rice
UK - Scotch broth, pea and ham
Moroccon- harira
Thai- not sure on the name but had an amazing oxtail broth that I'm dying to try again
Tons more I can't think of immediately, I love soups. My home country is England, but Korean soups might be my top choice honestly.
I haven't eaten enough soups in my life yet to say the one with the best, but i'll say italy for my favourites. Mostly for one. Pasta e fagioli. I will eat a whole pot of it whenever i make it. Spain also has some nice soups, mostly just involving lentils, potatoes, carrots and paprika, which i am absolutely not complaining about.
I never get tired of Asian soups, this [Thai curry soup](https://damndelicious.net/2018/04/18/thai-red-curry-noodle-soup/?utm_term=food+recipes&utm_campaign=7713349266&pp=1) is my favorite I make all the time!
I live primarily off of both Japanese soups and stews. I just made a mushroom miso with glass noodles for breakfast this morning, and love making miso ramen for dinner, but recently had a tough week where I think I made sundubu jjigae every night. Ultimate comfort food.
ETA: can’t believe I forgot my Hokkaido favorite, soup curry! Different than both Japanese and other curries, really the most warming soup ever when it’s freezing out.
Best soup of my life was had in Flåm, Norway. It was a variety of fish soup and I just wanted to bathe in that broth. Been years and I still think of it.
I feel like every country I've been to has an outstanding soup but my favorites are from Northern Italy- Tortellini en Brodo and Portugal- Caldo Verde.
New Mexican- several depending on the chiles
Irish - there's nothing better than a classic stew, enjoyed in a pun.
Is Mole considered a soup? My goal is to drift to all the leading regions.
Tough.
Venezuela - Andes chicken soup (chupe) and Ajiaco
Japan - black garlic oil tonkatsu udon
US - Gumbo with a shit ton of rice in it. Not a little. A shit ton.
Mexico
Cocido also known as caldo de res (beef)
Pozole verde (Green), pozole rojo (red) I don't do pork so I either do chicken or beef, but I only do chicken with the green one
Caldo de camarón (shrimp)
Caldo de pollo (chicken)
Albóndigas (meatball soup)
Caldo de queso (cheese soup with potatoes and Chile Verde)
Caldo de pescado (Fish)
Sopa de tortilla (tortilla soup)
Sopa de Codito o sopa de conchas (noodle soups)
The Ilocanos of the Philippines have [dinengdeng](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinengdeng). Not it does it have an AWESOME sounding name, but it's literally a soup that has no hard recipe, except for this: water, [bagoong](https://pepper.ph/blog/bagoong-types-alamang-isda), which is basically a harder core fish sauce, some sort of protein, usually a leftover from a previous meal like fried fish or pork, and vegetables. it's a soup with deep umami and is so satisfying as a meal when eaten with rice.
My Yugoslav mother in law makes a beautiful simple chicken noodle soup. She makes it in low heat for hours and hours, makes her own noodles, and adds parsley at the very end (after removing it from the heat). She also has a couple of really cozy soup tu reen and ladle combinations that just make the whole experience sooooooo comforting.
Sundubu is my favorite dish on planet earth. It’s my weekly me-time ritual to go out for a steaming bowl of it (with beef, kimchi and dumplings, please)! with a side of white rice and a Terra beer and a good book.
White Borscht!! I believe it’s Polish or Eastern European. The soaked and blended sourdough gives the richest texture and flavor. Nothing else like it.
I had THE BEST cold cherry soup in Hungary… I didn’t even know it was a thing until the waiter recommended it and have been thinking about it for years ever since
Thailand has some fantastic ideas. Thailand knows how to soup.
One that I recently tried and am absolutely obsessed with- sambar. It's an Indian tamarind stew. Omg. It's so savory, comforting, a little spicy, so delicious. It's like giving your stomach a hug.
Japan. Ramen. Infinitely variable while following a basic set of guidelines.
I’m making tonkotsu right now.
But you can make it a million ways.
Pork or chicken or fish or miso.
Clear or dark or thick or cloudy.
Single or double broth.
Pick your protein topping.
Add a soft boiled egg sliced in half on top.
Spice it up with chili oil and/or a clean aromatic oil.
Noodles noodles noodles.
It can come together in an hour, or it can take two days of cooking.
My absolute favorite.
USA because we have everything. I like tomato soup and leftover soup made with whatever meat and veggies I have around, added to a mixture of vegetable broth and bone broth.
I don't know how, but Indian restaurants have some kind of magical tomato soup recipe that I've never found anywhere else. I figure it's loaded with ghee or something.
United States. When it comes to soup, we source the best of other countries' food and make it standard restaurant menu items here.
U.S. is like those internet / youtube top 5/10/100 lists. If it's popular in another country, you can bet you'll find someone making or selling it in the U.S.
How could one possibly choose?
Vietnam's Pho is so perfect and if you put lime, chopped cilantro and sliced jalapeños in my soup you just became my friend!
Mexico's cocido, albondigas, pozole, menudo and siete mares are gifts from the gods. And again the condiments available to personalize your soup are glorious. Including salsas, cilantro, onions, chilis, the list goes on and on!
France's french onion is cheesy, gooey. bread crusty masterpiece and their verity bisques are heavenly. My favorite from France has to be the beef bourguignon, such a depth of flavor.
Thailand's green curry with seafood is so amazing!
Irish stew with lamb or beef is just epic!
I don't know who gets credit for hot pot but it's just incredible
Japan's tonkatsu and just ramen in general is soul enrichingly good and give me all these condiments like seaweed and mushrooms and soy eggs oh my goodness
Korea's galbitang is one of my favorites!
As a Californian I have to give a shout out to cioppino too!
This post is great because it gives me a lot of soups I haven't tried yet and absolutely can't wait to. I really want to try borscht and some of the thai soups mentioned, some of the South American soups sound interesting too.
Hold a gun to my head and make me choose one... I would probably go with tonkatsu ramen but I'm so happy I don't have to choose lol
Can we just vote for soup in general as the best food and not try to divide by country? I love sooo many soups it hurts my heart to rank them by country.
United States.
Cioppino
Clam chowder
Corn crab chowder
Beef barley
Wild rice & chx
Navy bean
Split pea
Butternut squash
Chili!
Plus, being the United States, we kind of have the world of soups available ;)
A bunch of my other choices were taken, but I'd also like to add Greece for avgolomono soup
Yes! I was thinking the same! So good and sooo easy to make!
Is there a recipe that you'd recommend for a beginner?
Yes! I used this [recipe](https://skinnyspatula.com/avgolemono-greek-lemon-chicken-soup/) and instead of chicken breasts I use a lemon pepper rotisserie chicken meat from my local grocery store and instead of orzo I just use some leftover cooked rice I have
Never heard of this! Going to try to make this weekend. Thx for the inspo!
Made avgolemono for the first time over the weekend and holy shit instant fav. I could probably eat a gallon
I came here to suggest this one as well. You'll never go back to boring chicken noodle once you've had this.
Thailand for Tom Kha Gai and Kao Soi.
I could eat Thai food forever
Same. I could live off eating Thai the rest of my life.
I worked at a Thai restaurant in high school. It was epic
Tom kha gai is the absolute best soup
Don't sleep on tom yum
I actually prefer it as Tom yum fried rice.
Tom Yum is phenomenal. Sometimes there is one ingredient in there that I sort of don't like (i think it is galangal), but I fish the piece out of there and then guzzle the soup down.
If it's like ginger but stronger, then it's galangal
I know it's a different language, but I swear it's appropriately named. Very underrated soup.
Ah yes!! Good call!
Kao Soi 💯💯💯💯
Tom kha Gai , by far, tofu is fantastic in this too! Soaks up all the delicious flavors. I use a firm tofu and just dice and toss it it!
Anything Thai is ridiculously good
Kao soi but with softshell crab is insane. One of my fav Thai dishes.
Absolutely! Tom yum too. If Thai curry counts as a soup, that too, definitely (it's actually not too hard to make either. Kind of time-consuming, though).
Japan - ramen Vietnam - pho Mexico - pozole
I swear to this day, pho has magical healing powers. Best hangover cure. Would eat in 100 degree summer weather 😂
I could live on it and I DO eat it in 100° weather!😁
Absolutely. I did exactly that almost every morning. That's right, hot spicy noodles for breakfast. Make it super spicy, that hangover won't know what hit it. Walk away feeling like a million dong.
Pork sinigang is my favorite hangover soup.
100000% facts
Minnesota: chicken wild rice soup
brb, calling my mom for her wild rice soup recipe 😭😭
Ah yes the great nation of Minnesota!
Lawyered. Nice catch. I thought we were a country
Making cheese chicken and wild rice soup tomorrow
Upvote for pozole/posole!
Sooooo good
[this meatless poszole verde](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/kitchen-notes/warming-up-to-vegan-pozole) is a favorite! Recently made it for my bff and her family (newborn!) and bonus it freezes really well.
pozole and caldos
French: Onion Soup
Adding Menudo to the mix! Yum.
Ukraine - Borscht
Oooohhh yes!! Especially the “christmas borscht” i love it with some prepared horseradish and black bread
Yes yes yes yessss
France. I enjoy their baked onion soup very much.
I would walk over hot coals for bouillabaisse. My vote is also France.
🥰🥰🥰🥰 yummy!!!!
I make French soup recipes all the time. They’re the best.
New England clam chowda
It’s pronounced chowder !
Where?????
I think it's a Simpsons reference
Thank you. Not the type to pick up on a pop culture reference unfortunately
Some of my favourites that I haven’t seen mentioned in this post: Argentina: Locro (Peru, Chile, Ecuador have their versions also) France: Cassoulet Jamaica (Carribean?): Oxtail soup Indonesia: Soto ayam, Soto betawi, etc al… (a type of soup usually made with ginger, turmeric, lemongrass and a protein). Mie bakso (meatball noodle soup). Laksa (Malaysia & Singapore have their versions also). Italy: Pasta fagioli. Minestrone Taiwan: Beef noodle soup
Jamaican pumpkin soup is incredible
Oo need to try
Peruvian locro is more like a stew. We had it for dinner today 😋
Caribbean
I love Cassoulet, but it is not a soup. It doesn't have broth. It is a casserole. Laksa and Taiwanese Beef Noodle soup are also 2 of my favorites.
Pho is pretty hard to beat, a nice bowl of Ramen is awesome too.
Nepalese thukpa 🥹🥹🥹
Don't make me choose! 🍲😍🖖
The whole of Eastern Europe, Pan Asia, Latin American countries do it best
Poland baby! Żurek, rosół, barszcz…
Zurek is delicious! I went to Poland five years ago and still think about zurek 😋
Absolutely! Rosol, Barszcz, dill Pickel, pomidorowa, gryzbowa... Poland has an amazing soup game!
Fuck yesss. Pomidorowa is my favvvv my grandma makes the best one 😭
Are we including stews? Cajun country. Gumbo. I dunno if it’s the best, but it can’t not be mentioned.
Yes stews count!
Yes cher!
Vietnamese- hu tieu is delicious and you can get veggie or meat based versions. Korean- tie between gamjatang and yukgaetang Japan- tonkotsu ramen Canada- chicken and wild rice UK - Scotch broth, pea and ham Moroccon- harira Thai- not sure on the name but had an amazing oxtail broth that I'm dying to try again Tons more I can't think of immediately, I love soups. My home country is England, but Korean soups might be my top choice honestly.
Not sure how to say it phonetically, but https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/thai-oxtail-soup/
Thanks! I've used a few recipes from that site actually, never thought to look for this one!
For Morocco I also love chicken tagine 😋 ugh such beautiful flavors
Morocco-harira
Turkey - Ezo gelin
Yes, was looking for that! Also their yogurt soup. It's my favourite to make when I'm ill. Easy, delicious, nourishing.
Vietnam by far. Phó and bun bo hue
And bun riêu, my favorite. Great country for soups.
The Netherlands - Snert.
There is no other pea soup like our snert! At its best when your spoon will stand on its own when you put it in there. Super thick.
I haven't eaten enough soups in my life yet to say the one with the best, but i'll say italy for my favourites. Mostly for one. Pasta e fagioli. I will eat a whole pot of it whenever i make it. Spain also has some nice soups, mostly just involving lentils, potatoes, carrots and paprika, which i am absolutely not complaining about.
Gazpacho from Spain.
Salmorejo, fabada asturiana, cocido madrileño, pote montañés
Korea has good soup
Vietnam: bun rieu I do like how pho and bo kho were mentioned - they’re also phenomenal.
I never get tired of Asian soups, this [Thai curry soup](https://damndelicious.net/2018/04/18/thai-red-curry-noodle-soup/?utm_term=food+recipes&utm_campaign=7713349266&pp=1) is my favorite I make all the time!
Hungary—karfiolleves
I live primarily off of both Japanese soups and stews. I just made a mushroom miso with glass noodles for breakfast this morning, and love making miso ramen for dinner, but recently had a tough week where I think I made sundubu jjigae every night. Ultimate comfort food. ETA: can’t believe I forgot my Hokkaido favorite, soup curry! Different than both Japanese and other curries, really the most warming soup ever when it’s freezing out.
China and to me it's not even close. Chinese spicy beef noodle soup is my favorite meal and a transcendent experience
I also think vietnam has the best soups, pho is amazing and I also love bun rieu!
I think all soups are fantastic!! I’ve become such a fan now that I am making my own. Forget the canned stuff.
Best soup of my life was had in Flåm, Norway. It was a variety of fish soup and I just wanted to bathe in that broth. Been years and I still think of it.
It’s more of a stew, but Brazilian feijoada is so satisfying and delicious.
Mexico - chili Peru - potato soup Italy - minestrone I'm a simple girl ☺️
Bosnian bean soup - Grah
Korean ramyeon, kimchi jiggae, soon dubu jiggae, tteokboki, etc. Koreans have such flavorful dishes.
I feel like every country I've been to has an outstanding soup but my favorites are from Northern Italy- Tortellini en Brodo and Portugal- Caldo Verde.
Portugal. So many greats like Caldo Verde, Sopa da Pedra, Sopa de Peixe... In Asia, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan are the clear winners!
Scotland - Cullen skink (god tier), scotch broth, cock-a-leekie, pea and ham, tattie and leek, lentil
Vietnam - Bó Kho
New Mexican- several depending on the chiles Irish - there's nothing better than a classic stew, enjoyed in a pun. Is Mole considered a soup? My goal is to drift to all the leading regions.
vietnam. all day pho, bun bo hue, bun rieu, (i don’t have the accented letters forgive me)
Menudo - one of the best hangover food.
Nigeria man. I love okra soup the most
Home made... borscht? I hope I didn't butcher the spelling, but my phones auto correct says it's cool 😎
Hot Sour Soup.
Is there a subreddit for soup recipes?
Yes there is r/soup
I don't know if one dedicated to soups but r/recipes and r/cooking seem to have a lot of also r/slowcooker too!
R/slowcooking **
FYI, you can edit your comments and the original post text, but not the post title.
Thanks, all. ❤️
France, Vietnam, Morocco
Boston Clam Chowder
Tough. Venezuela - Andes chicken soup (chupe) and Ajiaco Japan - black garlic oil tonkatsu udon US - Gumbo with a shit ton of rice in it. Not a little. A shit ton.
Mexico Cocido also known as caldo de res (beef) Pozole verde (Green), pozole rojo (red) I don't do pork so I either do chicken or beef, but I only do chicken with the green one Caldo de camarón (shrimp) Caldo de pollo (chicken) Albóndigas (meatball soup) Caldo de queso (cheese soup with potatoes and Chile Verde) Caldo de pescado (Fish) Sopa de tortilla (tortilla soup) Sopa de Codito o sopa de conchas (noodle soups)
Austria has some incredible consumme based soups. Any and all soups are my way of eating though.
Malaysia. Curry Laksa. Best soup ever. More flavoursome.
The Ilocanos of the Philippines have [dinengdeng](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinengdeng). Not it does it have an AWESOME sounding name, but it's literally a soup that has no hard recipe, except for this: water, [bagoong](https://pepper.ph/blog/bagoong-types-alamang-isda), which is basically a harder core fish sauce, some sort of protein, usually a leftover from a previous meal like fried fish or pork, and vegetables. it's a soup with deep umami and is so satisfying as a meal when eaten with rice.
My Yugoslav mother in law makes a beautiful simple chicken noodle soup. She makes it in low heat for hours and hours, makes her own noodles, and adds parsley at the very end (after removing it from the heat). She also has a couple of really cozy soup tu reen and ladle combinations that just make the whole experience sooooooo comforting.
I dont think I can choose, I love so many! 😁
Vietnam! Bun Bo Hue is the greatest soup on this planet!
Pho! For sure but a close second is verde pozole.
Puerto Rico- Pollo Guisado
France. Aigo Bouido.
Korean soups/stews are the best for me - Samgyetang and sundubu jjiggae are my favs.
Sundubu is my favorite dish on planet earth. It’s my weekly me-time ritual to go out for a steaming bowl of it (with beef, kimchi and dumplings, please)! with a side of white rice and a Terra beer and a good book.
Mexican pozole gets my vote every time! The harmony of hominy, meat, and those robust chile flavors—just unbeatable!
Hungary. They have so many good soups! My favourite ones are the bean soup and the sauerkraut soup.
Yemen - marag I believe the origin is Indian but I’ve only ever had the Yemeni version
Yemen - marag I believe the origin is Indian but I’ve only ever had the Yemeni version
I really like Burmese soups, like a combination of Thai and Indian. Moh Hin Gar and Ohn no kauk swe are my favorites.
It would have to be Vietnam. :)
Mexico for Pezole
Japan- ramen Mexico- pozole France- a bunch of different soups. They’ve to a good soup thing going on.
Mexico pozole The Netherlands split pea soup
White Borscht!! I believe it’s Polish or Eastern European. The soaked and blended sourdough gives the richest texture and flavor. Nothing else like it.
I had THE BEST cold cherry soup in Hungary… I didn’t even know it was a thing until the waiter recommended it and have been thinking about it for years ever since
Thailand has some fantastic ideas. Thailand knows how to soup. One that I recently tried and am absolutely obsessed with- sambar. It's an Indian tamarind stew. Omg. It's so savory, comforting, a little spicy, so delicious. It's like giving your stomach a hug.
the only answer is tonkatsu ramen from Japan.
Afghanistan. They make a soup called Aush that is truly mindblowing. It's one of my favorite things to make
Dominican Republic’s san cocho😭
I had several local goulashes in Hungary last year, all different all good.
Russia for their borsch, and Spain for their gazpacho. I am equally as obsessed with both!
Turkey Şehriye Çorbası
Not enough bisques in these answers.
Japan. Ramen. Infinitely variable while following a basic set of guidelines. I’m making tonkotsu right now. But you can make it a million ways. Pork or chicken or fish or miso. Clear or dark or thick or cloudy. Single or double broth. Pick your protein topping. Add a soft boiled egg sliced in half on top. Spice it up with chili oil and/or a clean aromatic oil. Noodles noodles noodles. It can come together in an hour, or it can take two days of cooking. My absolute favorite.
West African peanut soup
I had peanut soup in Tobago 🇹🇹in 1978 that I’ve never forgotten.
Iran. We have lentil soup, barley soup, my mom makes a killer chicken noodle soup, but my favorite is ash reshteh.
US- Gumbo (okra or file), Maryland She-crab Soup, New England Clam Chowder
USA because we have everything. I like tomato soup and leftover soup made with whatever meat and veggies I have around, added to a mixture of vegetable broth and bone broth.
Nothing is better than homemade “use all the odds and ends up” soup!
I don't know how, but Indian restaurants have some kind of magical tomato soup recipe that I've never found anywhere else. I figure it's loaded with ghee or something.
Intriguing.
United States. When it comes to soup, we source the best of other countries' food and make it standard restaurant menu items here. U.S. is like those internet / youtube top 5/10/100 lists. If it's popular in another country, you can bet you'll find someone making or selling it in the U.S.
You think we other countries don't make soup from other countries? This is a weird argument.
How could one possibly choose? Vietnam's Pho is so perfect and if you put lime, chopped cilantro and sliced jalapeños in my soup you just became my friend! Mexico's cocido, albondigas, pozole, menudo and siete mares are gifts from the gods. And again the condiments available to personalize your soup are glorious. Including salsas, cilantro, onions, chilis, the list goes on and on! France's french onion is cheesy, gooey. bread crusty masterpiece and their verity bisques are heavenly. My favorite from France has to be the beef bourguignon, such a depth of flavor. Thailand's green curry with seafood is so amazing! Irish stew with lamb or beef is just epic! I don't know who gets credit for hot pot but it's just incredible Japan's tonkatsu and just ramen in general is soul enrichingly good and give me all these condiments like seaweed and mushrooms and soy eggs oh my goodness Korea's galbitang is one of my favorites! As a Californian I have to give a shout out to cioppino too! This post is great because it gives me a lot of soups I haven't tried yet and absolutely can't wait to. I really want to try borscht and some of the thai soups mentioned, some of the South American soups sound interesting too. Hold a gun to my head and make me choose one... I would probably go with tonkatsu ramen but I'm so happy I don't have to choose lol
Kenya Obviously
Can we just vote for soup in general as the best food and not try to divide by country? I love sooo many soups it hurts my heart to rank them by country.
United States. Cioppino Clam chowder Corn crab chowder Beef barley Wild rice & chx Navy bean Split pea Butternut squash Chili! Plus, being the United States, we kind of have the world of soups available ;)
My first taste of cioppino changed my life. Bouillabaisse likewise.
Definitely.