tremura ciorba in farfurii

16:14 Sep 5, 2016 

1. This IS the point of the question as the asker needs a good translation for the term "farfurii". What is more, I have been eating in restaurants, homes and other establishments in the UK for the best part of 49 years and have never heard the term "plate of soup", you could translate "farfuri" as "dish" perhaps, but this refer to the meal rather than the crockery item.
2. This term may have been used 150 years ago, as in the Charles DIckens novel, but how do you know this novel in Romanian was written at the same period exactly?
3. I cannot find the term "Plate" in my first link.
4. I do not tell lies and my English is not bad for an English person!

13:41 Sep 5, 2016 

Personally I have absolutely nothing against replacing with bowl (after all, that's hardly the point of this question). But I think it's an idiosyncrasy, because: 1. in many UK restaurants they would say soup plates, not bowls, at least that's my personal experience

2. because of the horses, this probably takes place in a traditional type of society: "bowl of soup", as I said, is more usual nowadays, but "plate of soup" is what they said in 19-century novels, for instance:

"He couldn't eat more than one plate of soup and the plate was never washed!" http://markaki-eclass.blogspot.ro/2010/12/oliver-twist-by-ch...

So my point was, from the beginning, to use the language and phraseology that would not create anachronisms.

3. the item in the first link you posted is also called a soup plate

13:20 Sep 5, 2016 

This issue is regarding language usage, and in English, we do not say "deep plates". We always say/use soup "bowl", and traditional soup plates (at least in this part of Europe) have always been very shallow bowls. So I see your point regarding "deep plates", but it sounds odd and quite comical in English to say that.

@ Adami - with regard to the two links, there are various mistakes in these texts, which could suggest they were written by non-native speakers - they are not actually UK or US links anyway.

The fact is that we simply do not say "deep plates" for soup. Although many people use little round (and deep)bowls, the traditional and expensive restaurants in this part of Europe use the flatter sort like these, calling them "bowls":
http://www.johnlewis.com/royal-worcester-serendipity-bone-ch...
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/brasserie-red-banded...

12:55 Sep 5, 2016 

Although I do agree that bowl is a better term (see my answer), soup plates are not exactly bowls, as they are wide-rimmed.

12:53 Sep 5, 2016 

It may be unusual now, but it needs to stay on the plate ;) until we know what epoch and what culture we are talking about. In many traditional societies (most, I'd say), soup is served in deep plates. I was never able to make my mother grasp the idea that a soup can also be served in a bowl... ;)

E. Soups are served in deep plates, in Slovakia.
http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Slovak_Soups

Afterwards follows the soup, which is served in deep plates.
http://www.wedding-in-croatia.com/wedding-advice/wedding-gui...

12:44 Sep 5, 2016 

:)

12:38 Sep 5, 2016 

It would sound odd in English to say "soup in the plates". We say "on the plate/s", but we would never describe soup on a plate anyway, only a bowl. How can you put soup on a plate?