Most impressive soup lineup in the state? The honors might go to Mardi Gras in Verona (150 Bloomfield Ave. My favorite, though, is the mulligatawny, with chicken, carrots, potatoes and a curry flavor. The spinach soup, thick as a milkshake, is satisfying and supple. The chicken noodle is solid and straightforward it could have used more noodles. Twenty-five years serving soup? The Stock Pot in Montclair (20 Church St. This is one soup that hits all the right notes: hot, sweet, spicy, sour. Thai Chili in Spotswood (210 Summerhill Road 73) does it just right. If there's one soup I could eat all day, it's tom yum gai, the Thai clear chicken soup with bell peppers, galangal (a ginger-like seasoning), lemongrass and lime juice. The sopa de frijoles, or black bean soup, contains no whole beans they're mushed in, and the result is wondrous. 90) is bold and bracing, with shredded chicken and rice.
The sopa de pollo or chicken soup at Viva Mexico in Flemington (117 Broad St. Over the weekend, I make two disparate soup stops. Hale and Hearty wins the Soup Chain Showdown. Here's my Soup Rule Number One: No soup, even if it comes with a lottery ticket, should cost nine bucks. Three small cups of soup, with bread and fruit, will set you back $27. It's not quite soup, to be sure, but it's thick, meaty and spicy enough. The chicken vegetable, with curry undertones, is a muddle. The Manhattan clam chowder, darker and huskier than most, is not otherwise noteworthy.
"I will if you want me to," she said, smiling. "I was expecting you to throw a roll or something at me," I said. The Original Soup Man's rules include "Have your money ready" and "Move to the extreme left after ordering." I expected some attitude, but the girl behind the counter was sweet, even after I kept changing my order. But the New England clam chowder, loaded with clams and potatoes, is a creamy success. The 10-vegetable soup - I counted six vegetables, the others must have been hidden in there somewhere - is on the oily side. The chicken vegetable with couscous - call it classic deli soup by way of Beirut, or Cairo - is the best of the three sampled.
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