If you ever want to visit Greenland, and if you want to try the national food there, you should have a strong appetite. The national dish of Greenland is suaasat, a traditional Greenlandic soup. It is often made from seal, or from whale, reindeer, or seabirds. The soup often includes onions and potatoes, and is simply seasoned with salt and pepper, orbay leaf. The soup is often thickened with rice, or by soaking barley in the water overnight so that the starches leach into the water.