QUOTE(keyboard @ May 8 2016, 04:07)

Does the bread just act as a bowl or it is part of the dish?
Both. The bread -- which is crusty and a bit hard on the outside -- serves as a container for the soup and soaks up the flavors in the process. You can tear the "lid" into pieces and dunk them into the soup, then break up the "bowl" and eat it after finishing the soup.
You don't have to limit the soup to clam chowder. Bread bowls are meant to be used with any thick, creamy soup.
QUOTE(keyboard @ May 8 2016, 04:15)

Hmm... salmon roe sushi. I tried this many years ago, and remember it being a bit too salty for my tastes. Perhaps I should try it again.