Sour soup

Sour soup

Sour soup refers to various soups in a number of national cuisines. The name reflects its distinctive feature: sour taste. Often a sour soup has a specific national name. Sour soups are known in East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Slavic cuisines.

Asian origin

*Samlar machu, a generic Khmer term for sour soup (Cambodian sour soup).
*Canh chua (literally "sour soup") is a sour soup indigenous to the Mekong River region of southern Vietnam.
*Sinigang, Philippine fish sour soup
*Hot and sour soup
**Tom yum
*Sweet and sour soup
*Lemon rasam - an Indian sour soup made with lemon juice
*Dunt dalun chin-yei - drumstick sour soup (cuisine of Burma)

lavic origin

*Sour rye soup, known as żur, żurek in Poland or kyselo in Slovakia and Czechia.
**Żur śląski
*Styrian sour soup (Slovenian cuisine)
*Vipava sour soup (Slovenian cuisine)
*Sorrel soup
*Sour cabbage soup called sour shchi in Russian and kapuśniak in Polish
*Haladnik, Belarusian cold sour soup of beet
*Solyanka, thick, spicy and sour soup in the Russian and Ukrainian cuisine

Other

*Ciorbă, borş, borscht, generic Romanian cuisine terms for sour soups


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