Pork blood soup

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Kuaitiao nam tok is a Thai noodle soup; one of its main ingredients is raw blood. Namtok-noodles102.jpg
Kuaitiao nam tok is a Thai noodle soup; one of its main ingredients is raw blood.

Pork blood soup is a soup that uses pork blood as its primary ingredient. Additional ingredients may include barley and herbs such as marjoram, [1] as well as other foods and seasonings. Some versions are prepared with coagulated pork blood and other coagulated pork offal, such as intestine, liver and heart. [2]

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Varieties

China

Pork blood soup is soup in Chinese cuisine, and was consumed by laborers in Kaifeng "over 1,000 years ago", along with offal dumplings called jiaozi. [3]

Czech Republic

Prdelačka is a traditional Czech pork blood soup made during the pig slaughter season. [4] It is prepared with pork blood pudding, potato, onion and garlic as primary ingredients. [5]

Thailand

Pork blood soup is soup in Thai cuisine. [6] Guay Tiao Namtok is a Thai pork blood soup noodle that is prepared with pork blood as a soup base. The dish may come from Chinese cuisine, since some part of southern Chinese evacuated to Thailand for a century. [7]

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