Culture of Bhutan chili peppers (similar to chili con queso), might be called the national dish for its ubiquity and the pride that Bhutanese have for it. Other foods include: "jasha maru" (a chicken dish), "phaksha paa", "thukpa", "bathup", and fried rice. Dairy foods, particularly butter and cheese from yaks and cows, are also popular, and indeed almost all milk is turned into butter and cheese. Popular beverages include: butter tea, black tea, locally brewed "ara" (rice wine), and beer. Popular spices include: curry, cardamom, ginger, "thingay" (Sichuan pepper), garlic, turmeric, and caraway. When offered food, one says "meshu meshu", covering one's mouth
Hot and sour soup depending on what is available locally to the cook. Possible ingredients include various combinations of pineapple, tomato, ngo gai, fried garlic, papaya, lotus root, Thai basil () and Thai chili. "Tom yum" is a Thai soup flavored with lemon grass, lime, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, fish sauce and chilis. Sour curry (Thai: แกงส้ม, RTGS: Kaeng som) is a soup-like spicy and sour Thai curry. "Sinigang" is a Filipino soup or stew characterized by its sour and savoury taste most often associated with tamarind. "Canh chua" (literally "sour soup"), a sour soup indigenous to the Mekong River region of southern Vietnam,