Do you drink soup before or after meal?

In the US soup is served before a meal. I actually will have soup as my meal~ like soup and sandwich.

You know, here in the US it's hard to find traditional Chinese recipes. Most books on Chinese cooking have very royal dishes. I like traditional food better! Would one of you plase tell us a recipe for the clear soup and vegetables? It looks so good!

I either have soup before the meal or as the meal. A couple of nights ago, I made potato asparagus soup as the meal served with bread.

Hi youless, in our family we take soup before or in between our food. we never take it after our meals. I am a vegetarian and my family (in-laws) are non-vegetarian , but i dont cook any non-veg item. they sometime like to have a veg or a chinese soup in the starting and then some non - veg item like fried fish or chicken or so. these too items are most of the time liked and ordered by us. so, we have soup in the starting and then our meal.

I don't always have soup with every meal. But I don't have any preference regarding when I drink it. Usually it would be with the meal, or after the meal. For western meals though, the soup will definitely be before the main course. But that's the western way.

i drink soup during the meal.soup will take out when in the middle of our dinner time,i think maybe it need time to boil lol.and only when we are eating rice,we have soup,if we eat noodles or dumplings,soup is not served.

we will usally have soup before a meal

We normally have our soup during our meals time. Most of the time we add the veggies or chicken or beef or fish or fish ball/fish cake in the soup. We did not add the flour in our soup like what the western peoples always do with their soup. Our soup is clear soup and added with herbs and spices. we eat them alonng with the other dish and rice.

Soup is a must in our family meal. We normally don't drink the soup after a meal but drink it in between. Sometimes we only have one dish of soup and rice for our meal. A soup can be a meal by itself, I load it with a lot of vegetables and meat. This save me cooking other dishes.