Gold Bar Soup was an item on the tiffin menu for the crew of the 83, Suiyang on Aug. 22, little though they knew it One of the most exjensive items on any menu in the ar East, the ingredients cost over $17,000.
Certainly sounds strange, but nevertheless it true, and actually was not the first time that this [brew hag been found on "galley That day it was found bY setreh party from the Customs, and within a minute the sctp was minus its expensive ingredient.
Attempts are continually being ide to smuggle gold bars out of to the south, and. several hauls have been toms recently. up to most tricks of and when they visited the C.
Suiyang that due' to: sail for Hongkong. at 2.m.—they noticed a cook assiduous stirring a cauldron of savoury-smell Soup for the crew. searchers paused a while, and took the ladle from the cook, One of them dipped deep into the soup, Result, the discovery of seventeen gold bars, worth roughly $1,000 each.
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