Phō. I have never had a bad date while enjoying a bowl at a Vietnamese restaurant.
And if the date is dull, at least you’ve enjoyed an excellent soup.
Traditionally served in the morning tho - do you do morning dates ?
Bro I’m one for culture but Pho’s so delish idgaf when or where I’m having it, that’s a great date for anyone with 3 connecting neurons
She’s only got two … should I still go with the Pho? or maybe some dishwater instead?
It might be a morning dish traditionally but it’s eaten at any time of the day in my part of the US at least (Midwest)
And if you’re in Portland, you can always pick Pho Kim to get the sexy juices flowing.
Just don’t eat soup on a first date. Soup is a 38th date food. Soup is what you get at a little truck stop after being stuck in a blizzard together for the last 12 hours in a car with no working heater, on your way back from Christmas. Then you get some soup and empty little bags of oyster crackers into it and you look at her and smile because you’re lucky to be with her. “Ohhh that’s so good” she says, huffing the air over the soup, and tugging off her mittens.
If you had to eat soup on a first date, Pho is the way to go.
Gazpacho is chilled; if that isn’t cool enough I’ll eat my sombrero.
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Yeah but if you’re expecting an ice-cold gazpacho soup and it’s room temperature, you could burn yourself!
No soup. Too dangerous to eat with a long beard, for a first date. Risk making a fool of myself
If my date had a long beard with soup in it, I’d think that she wasn’t the one for me
Don’t be a soup hater, enjoy a flavor saver.
Seconding the pho, I would even say a hot pot restaurant since you guys can make your own soups which can take some of the pressure off the conversation since you’re actively cooking and the experience will be memorable. 🤩✨
This is actually a good idea
If you are worried about ordering the “wrong” soup, you aren’t mature enough to be dating yet. Discover yourself, then you can show show yourself to another person. Otherwise you are just wearing a mask.
Gazpacho
A proper french onion soup is pretty classy
My first date go-to is my mom’s famous 13 bean soup
Do you have the soup at your mom’s?
Only if my date wants to see my 40k collection
And if she doesn’t, she doesn’t deserve you anyway.
Just as long as they’re not going to be around me for the beanie consequences to come to fruition, if you catch my drift.
Shared bowl of all you can eat soup from Italian garden. I am not clarifying.
I think that a communal dish is the way to go. Those mussels in broth that you eat and dip bread in the liquid are great- something to do with your hands, one big bowl, and small bites so no cutting and long chewing.
Are you making the soup or eating out? If you are making it - sopa de tomate y frijoles is so much better than it should be, you just take an onion, few dried peppers (Ancho are good) can of pinto beans, can of tomatoes, broth of whatever variety. Soak peppers, blend everything including the raw onion, season, cook by simmering on the stove. Tastes even better if you then refrigerate and reheat it the next day. Toppings - crumbly cheese, tortilla chips, pumpkin seeds, sliced scallion greens, pickled jalapenos.
Here I was, asking myself what could be worse than having soup on a first date, and there you come with a brilliant answer: communal mussels
I love them!
Salad is the worst date food. I love salad but it’s awkward to eat.
Tom Kha Ghai
something you cooked from the bottom of your heart, inspired by that person, improvising with seasonal ingredients, with a touch of crazy zestiness (lime, ginger, chili)? something that would taste delicious and show how inventive and thoughtful you are!
Borș de fasole (sour bean soup), cold, with mămăligă (polenta) and raw onion. 🥲
Anyone who survives this on the first date is probably your soulmate for all eternity
broccoli creme soup with ajvar is rather fancy, Kohlrabi creme soup would fit also
