Most expensive soup (2024)

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With one bowl costing a bank account withering $5,000, £3,800, this Vietnamese Pho soup is probably the most expensive soup on earth. It is the creation of Tiato, a Vietnamese restaurant in California. They created the soup to auction off for a children's hospital charity.

According to the Taste Atlas Awards, the international food database, the Filipino favorite, Sinigang, is hailed as the best soup in the world.

The most expensive soup available on a menu is served in London's upscale Mayfair neighbourhood. Guinness World Records certified that the £108 bowl of “Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup” is the most expensive on any menu in the world.

Break the bank! Ofe Owerri is one of the most expensive Igbo soups; it is made with assorted meat (different parts of cow meat), snails, dried fish, and stockfish.

The giant pot of neua tune, a beef stew popular in the Thai capital, has been simmering since owner Nattapong Kaweenuntawong was a child, more than 45 years ago. Growing up studying the exact flavor profile of the stew from his father, Kaweenuntawong now balances the flavor himself daily.

In Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok), there is an award-winning restaurant called Wattana Panich, where you can order and then eat a beef and goat soup that is 49 years old.

Bisque is considered a luxury soup and best served for dinner. Cream. They are prepared with a puree of vegetables, poultry, fish or meat and thickened with bechamel sauce or a cream finish.

Then there are the soups that are considered national soups. In the U.S., gumbo is the top national soup, a thick spicy soup from Louisiana. Clam chowder is another. France is into soup in a major way.

Niu Baba, or Beef Papa, has a record for the most expensive bowl of soup noodles in the world. The Presidential bowl comes in at 10,000 Taiwanese dollars, roughly $330 US. For a bowl of soup. It is insane, but I was honestly intrigued.

Okra soup (aka ila alasepo)

This Nigerian Okra soup recipe can be replicated with or without Palm oil. It is also by far the cheapest soup one could prepare in the country.

What is Nigerian black soup made of? ›

Edo black soup also known as omoebe is a Nigerian soup made mainly from three leaves namely scent leaf, uziza leaf and bitter leaf. Other ingredients include beef, onion, crayfish, pepper and palm oil.

Bird's Nest Soup

This soup is an expensive delicacy in China where it has been enjoyed for over 400 years. Always in high demand, edible bird's nests are among the most expensive animal products humans consume. Prices can soar to $3,000 per pound. Bird's Nest Soup is made from the nests of a small Southeast Asian bird.

Sweet soups such as tong sui are enjoyed for their aroma, mouthfeel, and aftertaste. Many soups are eaten and drunk as much for their flavour as for their health benefits and touted for their purported revitalizing or invigorating effects.

Notable examples include beef and goat noodle soup served by Wattana Panich in Bangkok, Thailand, which has been cooking for over 49 years as of 2024, and oden broth from Otaf*cku in Asakusa, Japan, which has served the same broth daily since 1945.