How many types of soups are there in Chinese cooking?
Too many around that can represent Chinese cuisine.
There are 8 distinct Chinese cuisine that are widely recognized by the Chinese whether those in China or overseas: the Anhui cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, and Zhejiang cuisine. Each has their own distinct soups.
Besides categorizing by genres, chinese soups can also be grouped by ingredients used, who they are for, what functions they have and special dietary needs.
Let me take a chip at the ice-berg.
Firstly a range of soups with a particular type of ingredient.
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Beef soup recipes
Chicken soup recipes
Duck soup recipes
Fish soup recipes
Lamb soup recipes
Lotus root soup recipes
Miso soup recipes
Pork soup recipes
Potato soup recipes
Pumpkin soup recipes
Seafood soup recipes
Shrimp soup recipes
Tofu soup recipes
Vegetable soup recipes
Winter melon soup recipes
Soups for people with special dietary needs
The popular soups
Soups for different people
Chinese soups can also be categorised according to the way they are cooked. I talked about the different types of cooking methods at another page.
