One typical dish is cazuela, a light-broth soup with chicken, Chilean pumpkin, a bit of corn on the cob, potato, carrots and onions.

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First, the primary dashi, which functions as this soup's broth, comes together when a pot of water with kombu is boiled and bonito flakes are tossed in.

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Sometimes called drool, Babylon, bear soup, vulture soup, white face, moustache broth, chalk and nectar of the gods, pulque is the sort of drink you have to learn to like, if only because you have never tasted anything like it before.

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Order the lobster soup: dumplings served in a pungent, beet-red vegetable broth, steamed before your eyes in a glass contraption resembling a coffeepot.

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At the centre of its bewilderingly long menu is pho, traditional Vietnamese noodle soup served with a choice of beef, where the integral ingredient is a broth simmered slowly for many hours to develop its rich, deep flavour.

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Meanwhile, even though many McDonald's menu boards now suggest that customers have the option to "add Campbell's soup to any meal, " it's hard to find many of them slurping chicken broth.

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