This article starts from the hypotesis that plates and food as any other texts, clothes, places and space, literature, etc. constitute concentrated significations of the culture to witch they belong. Soupe refers to a frensh plate while harira refers to a Moroccan one. Both of them are famous and very present in table. But these two plates are not only made in two different ways, but also present two oppsite ways of dealing with diferents ingredients and with the alterity and the identity in generral. In the following article, it is about to study them as a text submitted to a specific syntax and reflecting a special attitude towards identity and alterity.