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Soup

Ciorbă de Burtă

The secret to Romania's hangover-busting soup is tripe.

Kaleh Pacheh

This savory “head and hooves” soup makes a hearty breakfast in Iran.

Mykyrokka

Blood-and-barley dumplings give this Finnish soup its iconic texture.

A bowl of Armenian khash.

Khash

In Armenia, hangovers call for a hearty soup of boiled cow hooves.

Show us your best black sesame sweet soup!

Introducing Gastro Obscura's Black Sesame Sweet Soup Cook-Off

It's a wondrous dessert popular in Hong Kong, and we're challenging our readers to make it at home.

Eric Grundhauser August 7, 2018

Czernina

Duck blood makes this Polish soup extra rich.

Caldo de Cardán

In Bolivia, this bull penis soup is considered an aphrodisiac and hangover cure.

Booyah

Ladled out of massive pots at feasts and fundraisers, the Midwestern stew binds communities.

Sopa de Pata

This Salvadoran soup gets its rich, buttery flavor from cow hooves.

Sofkee

This Native American sour corn mixture can come as a cool drink or warm porridge.

Black Sesame Sweet Soup

This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.

Papaitan

The Filipino stew gets its signature bitterness from bile.

Dinuguan

A pork blood stew so rich and velvety, it's known as “chocolate meat.”

Soup Joumou

The once-forbidden stew now symbolizes Haitian independence.

Chicken Mull

A buttery Southern specialty inspired by 19th-century seaside cookouts.

Cheese Zombies for lunch in Yakima, WA.

Cheese Zombies

The Yakima Valley's beloved school lunch takes grilled cheese to the next level.

Soup Number Five

The aphrodisiac subtly references the “fifth” kind of meat: bull genitals.

Bilberry Soup

Hot, fruity, and an integral part of the longest cross-country ski race in the world.