Soup with rice or soup with vermicelli?
By Suggar
@Suggar (3606)
Bulgaria
December 16, 2010 12:31pm CST
Hello friends,
i don't know how people cook soup in your country, but i can share as example what we put in the soups here - potatoes, chicken meat, carrots, some spices, at the end people here always put rice or vermicelli. Since i was little girl, i always loved soups with vermicelli, i don't know why. Rice is something which doesn't taste good in the soups for me. If i have to be honest, i'm not a rice lover, but even some people who doesn't love rice so much put it in soups here.
Here i am today cooking a potatoes soup, but just put some spaghetti inside. I love the taste of the spaghetti, when it's mixed with the taste of the soup. It's so delicious for me and specially when the soup is hot for cold weather.
What about you - rice, vermicelli or spaghetti in the soup? 
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10 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
18 Dec 10
I love good soup especially when it's cold.I always put egg noodles in mine. I have put rice but prefer the noodles, macaroni or spaghetti.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
19 Dec 10
Thanks Dear, i just happened to see your discusiion. I always like tosee them. I think u are an interesting young lady. I'm usually partial to boys,lol.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
16 Dec 10
hi Suggar,
We cook soup very much the same way as you described, the only difference is we do not mix any kind of pasta with potato in Filipino soup, if it's potato soup then just potato and the broth, pasta soup or sopas as we call it has carrots, celery,chicken or beef and more often than not with cream .
As with rice, believe it or not, even if we are a rice eating nation we do not put rice in our soup
, we turn them to porridge instead with many variations like arroz caldo if it is chicken porridge, goto is porridge with cow's innards and so on... nice post , at least I got to know how soup is prepared in your country
, we turn them to porridge instead with many variations like arroz caldo if it is chicken porridge, goto is porridge with cow's innards and so on... nice post , at least I got to know how soup is prepared in your country
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
16 Dec 10
Hello friend,
people here cook more soups made as a cream.. and i like it that way, actually.
The one way i love the rice is when it's served in the Chinese restaurant, it's so delicious. Usually people, who cook rice here, bake it or boil it, i lie to fry it.
Now i'll try to put a picture of the soup i made, it's with little yogurt and eggs at the end, mixed with the soup, for white color.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
16 Dec 10
cream soups here are mostly mushroom, corn and the Chinese corn and crab,talk about Chinese soup, are you familiar with Nido or bird's nest soup?It's made from saliva of birds hehe that they stick on caves when they build their nest, it's found in one of the caves here in Palawan, it's so expensive that people will risk their lives just to harvest it from sides of high and dark caves full of bats. It used to be reserved only for Chinese Emperors but is now available in exotic chinese restos that are more or less still affordable,really saliva but it's so good don't know why 
@clocks123 (1225)
• United States
16 Dec 10
i think both soups sound good and it depends on what you like. spaghetti in soup could replace potatoes as both are starches. i enjoy putting tiny pasta in my soup of broth. orzo is one brand or acidipipi. they are tiny round pasta you put in with chicken broth. i like rice with spaghetti sauce as well. these are products that can be used for so many things. i think either way rice or vermicelli would be delicious.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
17 Dec 10
Hello Clocks i think that if i remove the soup, it will be only water, nothing more 
Let me tell you what i did as soup yesterday with the potatoes - onion, spices, little carrots, potatoes, water, at the end little spaghetti and when the dish is getting cold one egg and yogurt, my thought is that if i remove the potatoes, it will be only water and spaghetti inside ...
Let me tell you what i did as soup yesterday with the potatoes - onion, spices, little carrots, potatoes, water, at the end little spaghetti and when the dish is getting cold one egg and yogurt, my thought is that if i remove the potatoes, it will be only water and spaghetti inside ... 
@JudgeIronFist (2472)
• Singapore
17 Dec 10
I prefer with vermicelli. But with spaghettis also sound delicious
. In Korea, they have a habit of pouring rice into the stew/soup and they love it. Well, I don't know yet since I've not tried it before. It should taste nice. Over here in my country, people cook soup with many things---chicken, clams etc.
. In Korea, they have a habit of pouring rice into the stew/soup and they love it. Well, I don't know yet since I've not tried it before. It should taste nice. Over here in my country, people cook soup with many things---chicken, clams etc.
@TrvlArrngr (4045)
• United States
16 Dec 10
I like both but sometimes I throw in large egg noodles. Then it makes the soup more like a meal. Especially if I have beef, potatos, or large veggies. I wish I had some now. We have snow and ice today.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
16 Dec 10
Hello friend, i always keep something for soup at home, because it's easy for cooking and soon after the start the dish is ready, so macaroni, spaghetti, rice and such things i always got on hand.
Here we got our second snow for this winter and it's very cold too.
@ukyo895 (10)
• United States
16 Dec 10
Noodles in general are good in their own right - slurpy, chewable, and contains their own flavor. But rice is something that I enjoy in soup as well. Rice is more of a grouped item in soup that can be enjoyable to pick up with spoons, but you're right, the flavor of rice in soup is pretty much not present. I have honestly not had vermicelli in soup before. I would expect it to be good, if cooked properly. I prefer vermicelli sauteed and then put in liquid, but in a soup that might be interesting. Overall, it depends on what I feel like at the time, but I usually prefer rice over spaghetti.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
16 Dec 10
I don't usually mix starches like rice or vermicelli with potatoes, but some people do here. I much prefer rice, especially brown rice, in soup over potatoes even, but that's just me. Most soup here is made with potatoes, but we eat a great variety of soup, so it can be made with just about anything.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
16 Dec 10
It is usually soup with noodles here and they can have many different kind of soups. Some are spicy and others are plain clear soup that is served during meal time. Since rice is our staple food, we usually have two different dish with rice and a soup. But for soup with noodles it is usually severed for breakfast.
@nicregi (1934)
• Malaysia
16 Dec 10
Hi there! In my country, rice is a must. For chinese like me, soup are rather important. Soup are great for both cold and hot season. So we have alot of different soups to follow the season and weather.
However, we do practice at sometime to change to vermicelli. It is also great as it works well with all type (soup or dry) :)
@bhanumanikanta (90)
• India
17 Dec 10
hi suggar....
i prefer to have vermicelli in soup because this increases the taste of the soup and none of the others such as potatoes,rice,spaghetti cannot increase the taste of the soup so friends follow this and you will enjoy this......
