Turn up the heat with these spicy soups. They’re loaded with chilli, green and red, and tempered with the fragrance of ginger, galangal cumin or turmeric. Slurp away at laksas by Christine Manfield and Tony Tan’s, or make pack a spicy punch with David Thompson’s recipe for hot and sour soup with red snapper. Put some fire in your belly with a Mexican sopa de fideos, or for that tingly, mouth-numbing sensation that only Sichuan pepper can give, simmer up the Sichuan-style soup with pork and soft tofu.

Wonton soup with Sichuan red oil and black vinegar chilli sauce

Chicken and egg noodle soup with ginger and chilli

Tony Tan’s crab soup with pickled vegetable and tomato

Zucchini, mint and chilli soup with grilled flatbread

Spiced pumpkin soup with onion bhajis and curry leaves

Mussels in fragrant broth with mung bean noodles

Spicy Sichuan-style soup with pork, lettuce and soft tofu
