It has the consistency of a very thick soup and is scooped up with hot pita bread, raw onion and pickled cucumbers.

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And when it's cold outside, few things sound as appealing as a hearty onion soup with a layer of baked Gruyere so thick it almost requires a fork and knife, especially when it's part of a prix fixe lunch.

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My cue to take a bite of rice drenched in the thick soup.

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We started with a "crab meat" and sweet corn thick soup.

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He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes.

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Now the soup, so thick it could be mistaken for a sauce, has taken a spot on menus abroad.

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