"The most expensive soup in Britain is the star dish on the menu of an upmarket Chinese restaurant in London -- at a mere 108 pounds (160 euros, 205 dollars) a bowl.
Called 'Buddha Jumps Over the Wall', the shark's fin soup -- which must be ordered five days in advance -- is made with whole abalone, Japanese flower mushroom, sea cucumber, dried scallops, chicken, Hunan ham, pork and ginseng.
The soup -- 'fit for an emperor'", the menu promises -- is said to have earned its unusual name from its mouth-watering aroma which prompted the vegetarian Buddha to leap over a wall to find it."
Sounds like my kind of soup.
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