# Paraguayan food words: chipa, sopa paraguaya, tereré

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**Summary.** Strongly Guaraní food vocabulary: chipa (cheese-cassava bread), sopa paraguaya (a cornbread, not a soup), mbejú, mandi'o (cassava), tereré (cold mate — the national drink).

Food vocabulary is strongly Guaraní: chipa (cheese-and-cassava bread), sopa paraguaya (a baked cornbread — famously 'solid soup'), mbejú, vorí vorí, mandi'o (cassava/yuca), tereré (cold yerba mate, the national drink), and mate (the hot version, more in winter).

Tereré culture is central social glue — sharing a guampa and bombilla is a daily ritual. Note that sopa paraguaya is not a soup but a cornbread, and chipa is everywhere, especially around Easter.

The cornmeal-and-cassava family runs deep: chipa guasu (a moist corn-and-cheese casserole), mbejú (a cassava-starch griddle cake), and bori-bori (a dumpling soup), alongside a strong asado/parrilla culture. Chipa is also a seasonal ritual — families bake it together for Holy Week, and street vendors call 'chipaaa' through buses and plazas.

## Examples
- ¿Tomamos un tereré? — Shall we have a tereré (cold mate)?
- La sopa paraguaya no es sopa, es como un pan. — Sopa paraguaya isn't soup, it's like a bread.
- En Semana Santa toda la familia hace chipa. — During Holy Week the whole family makes chipa.

Related: regional.py.lexicon-everyday, regional.py.guarani-influence

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