re: I have to give my review of Tchefuncte's in Madisonville.

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I ordered the turtle soup. It was terrible. Couldn't finish it. Not enough salt. Not enough spice and the "turtle" I'm almost certain was ground beef. If you are going to fake it at least make the protein shredded. Also the egg already comes in the soup and not to order. The turtle soup sucks.

To fix add a little more salt, little more red pepper flakes, make the roux darker, add a pinch of clove (just enough to have a background flavor), do not cook with the egg and make sure the protein is shredded.

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I disagree with most of this. Just add some salt and pepper. If they don't have it at the table ask for some. Jeesh.

Every turtle soup I've had had the egg in the soup. Traditionally, the eggs were turtle eggs found when cleaning a female turtle, so it was natural to throw them in there, too. Almost always the meat was ground, not stringy.

If the meat was indeed ground beef, the chef should be ashamed of himself for putting that in a $350 meal.