Every harbour city worth its salt has a soup for its local catch

Marseilles has its Bouillabaisse, Antwerp its Soupe de Moules and Boston its Clam Chowder. However, such a specialty is strangely absent in Sydney.

This great harbor city of the Antipodes — or indeed the world — with its abundance of fish and seafood — has no seafood soup to call its own. But Australia — and Sydney in particular — prides itself on its multiculturalism. Instead of coming up with a fish or seafood soup of its own — Sydney chefs of all nationalities serve the whole gamut of fish or seafood soups of the world and variations thereof. Read more: Suite 101

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