List of sour soups

Various sour soups, named for their characteristic sour taste, are known in various East Asian, Southeast Asian, and the cuisines of Eastern Europe.

Asian origin

 * Samlar machu, a Khmer term for a category of sour soups.
 * Canh chua (literally "sour soup") is a sour soup indigenous to the Mekong River region of southern Vietnam.
 * Sinigang, Philippine sour soup
 * Hot and sour soup
 * Tom kha kai
 * Tom yum
 * Lemon rasam - an Indian sour soup made with lemon juices
 * Dunt dalun chin-yei - drumstick sour soup (cuisine of Burma)
 * Sayur asem
 * Ikan kuah kuning - an Indonesia sour fish soup
 * Sour soup fish - a Guizhou cuisine in southern China

Slavic origin

 * Beet borscht cooked in Eastern Europe has an appreciable sour taste due to the addition of sour beet (or fermented beet juice) or sour cream.
 * Borschts without beets are sour in general
 * Kapusniak, Ukrainian and Polish soup made from sour cabbage (sauerkraut), millet and potatoes in meat broth
 * Sour shchi, a sour cabbage soup in Russian cuisine
 * Rassolnik, traditional Russian soup made with pickled cucumbers
 * Sorrel soup
 * Solyanka, thick, spicy and sour soup in the Russian and Ukrainian cuisine
 * Okroshka, cold Russian soup traditionally made with kvass
 * Sour rye soup, known as żur in Belarus and Poland, or kyselo in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
 * Jota (Slovenian cuisine)
 * Styrian sour soup (Slovenian cuisine)
 * Vipava sour soup (Slovenian cuisine)

Romania and Moldova

 * Borș, term from the historic region of Moldavia for sour soups or fermented wheat bran, essential ingredient to cook Ciorbă.