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Soothing Turtle Bisque

Bring 10 pieces of Turtle Meat and some Soothing Spices to Chef Jessen in Southshore.
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If there's one thing you'll learn about Southshore it's that we have some of the best cuisine north of Stormwind!

Take my secret recipe for Turtle Bisque, for example. I've known folks to travel from as far as Darkshire just to enjoy a bowl. Speaking of which, I haven't been able to make any lately. I used to head up past Dalaran to Lake Lordamere myself to hunt Snapjaws but it's just too dangerous now. If you bring me some Turtle Meat from the Snapjaws up north and Soothing Spices, I'll whip some up!

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You will receive:
Recipe: Soothing Turtle Bisque
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Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
  • 2500 experience ( 15 at max. level)
  • 100 Reputation with Stormwind

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By Anonymous on 10/05/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
LVL 34, 2500 XP
Turtles spawn on the river E of Southshore. They spawn from next to the town to all the way up past Tarren Mill.

I got meat off of lvl 30 and 31 turtles. I would estimate that I killed about 25 to get 10 meat.

The soothing spices can be purchased from the trade supplier in the big building N of the inn and across the street (last bldg before griffons)
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By qagmire on 09/18/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
This quest is for the Alliance faction only.

Horde players will have to follow this quest:
https://classicdb.ch/?quest=7321
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By laalarse on 01/25/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
You can get Soothing Spices in Southshore. 48, 55 from Micha Yance
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By Anonymous on 01/23/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
1500 XP at level 38, when the quest is green.
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By Anonymous on 07/24/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
You can get Soothing Spices in Southshore. 48, 55 from Micha Yance
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By Anonymous on 02/04/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
2500 exp at level 29, when the quest is yellow.

The lake location described below is definitely the ideal place for this, if a bit far to walk to. Drop rate is about the same as murloc quest drops, which is to say not very high. These are easy kills though, auto-attack and AFK (which is what I did).
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By laalarse on 01/25/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
Soothing Turtle Bisque (Quest) tloc 69,13 (The whole river up and down you can find the turtles)
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By Anonymous on 01/22/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
if you swim up river all the way to western plaguelands the drop rate improves as you go. i was getting 2 or 3 pieces at a time when they dropped. plus you can skirt around the edge and get the flight path in western plaguelands without having to face the high level monsters
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By Anonymous on 11/10/2005 (Patch 1.8.2)
My advice.... if you plan to do this quest, what you do:

At lvl 30 there is a quest over in Thousand Needles at the Goblin/Gnome race track to kill Turtles for their shells. They drop the SAME Turtle Meat as the ones near SS, and they drop the Hardened Turtle Shells or whatever you have to get for the quest, VERY RARELY. You need 8 or 9 of them.

So go do the shells quest, by the time you're done you can fly over to SS and turn in the turtle meat to get double bonus for fighting those STUPID ass turtles for SO LONG!

--BobTheSmall
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By Vlad on 05/27/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
1) Kill turtles (Snapjaw) along the river east for Southshore:
http://classicdb.ch/?npc=2408

2) Buy the spices from Micha Yance:
http://classicdb.ch/?npc=2381
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By Anonymous on 01/15/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
Lordamere Lake on the north edge of Dalaran (Big Pink Dome thing on the West Edge of Alterac Mtns.) is a much better place to find turtles. There are TONS of them all along the south and west shores of this lake.

Edited, Fri Jan 14 21:23:03 2005
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By Phrosty on 03/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
The turtles have a somewhat highish Frost Resist, by the way.
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By Anonymous on 04/05/2006 (Patch 1.10.0)
Can be bought from a vendor in Southshore.

Around 48,56. One of the shops close to the griffon rider.
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By Anonymous on 02/28/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Where: Get the quests at 68,20 and south.&nbsp All along the river.

What?: Killing the Snapjaw, any level, will give you The Turtle Meat

Spices: Buy from a cooking vendor (in UC)
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By Anonymous on 02/28/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Theres a man in the in a house @ (48,55) in southshore that has the soothing spice for sale
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By Anonymous on 05/03/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
The best place I found to grind these are at 21,47.&nbsp There are plenty along the shore to kill for the meat.&nbsp And yes the post above about the spice is correct.&nbsp You can buy the spice from the trade goods guy in the last building on the north west side of town.. he is located on the lower level of the building.
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By Anonymous on 10/05/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Drop rate is not good, but if you just READ the quest, it EXACTLY says where to find them. And th�re at least the drop rate is a lot better than once every 20 kills. It took me 10 min in total maybe. At that time I was a 32 mage.
So....READ the quest and you�re done.
If you have no idea where Dalaran is, well, go North North West from Southshore. It�s left of where the map says where the Arherac Mountains are. When you walk in there you�ll see a BIG (read VERY BIG) pink bowl/shield/I don�t know what, but just behind it are the turtles.

Have fun...

Oh... there is this little house standing there...if you�re not at leasta lvl 35, don�t be curious and go inside.... you�ll die :)

So...have fun, that�s an order
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By Anonymous on 10/05/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Well. Horde can get this quest too. And to get the soothie spice, just talk to the Tradesman in the inn in TM. He sell it for 1.44s
To get the turtle meat, go to the river and kill Snapjaws.

Happy fraggin' - Doopie (Bloodfeather)

EDIT: After killing Snapjaws for 10 mins. I got all my turtle meat, lvl 31 often drop 2 meat, and lvl 30 often drop 1 meat.

EDIT: Got 2500xp at lvl 32
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By Anonymous on 01/22/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
Well, I found the drop rate quite good. Actually, from the start it was really slow, than at 5 meats, they started to drop them 2 and 2.

The only problem remaining is though that I can't find the quest giver. He doesen't appear in my mini-map.
Is it just a bug or have Blizzard removed the npc?
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By LionarChoGall on 07/20/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
The location given in the quest log has a much better droprate than the river. Head to the lake north of Dalaran, i got all 10 pieces of meat in 16 kills. Also it is untrue, as of July 20, 2007, that you need 1 cooking skill to acquire this quest, i have yet to train cooking and just completed it.
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By moonasha on 12/28/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
When you pick up the soothing spices, be sure to grab the other recipes the guy sells. You can put them on the AH and make some money.
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By dyerdome on 01/20/2008 (Patch 2.3.2)
The turtles you kill for this quest are simply godly for Cooking, from about 110-225.

First, they occasionally drop Bristle Whisker Catfish for 100+ Cooks. The turtles also drop clams which have Zesty Clam Meat for Goblin Deviled Clams. Farm enough clams to get to 175 and you'll have tons of Turtle Meat for the quest and to skill up -- not to mention some Irridescent/Small Lustrous Pearls and Heavy/Medium leather (if you're a skinner) to boot.

The Turtle Bisque recipe doesn't even turn yellow until 215, so you can easily do your entire stretch from 150-225 this way.
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By anivyl on 04/21/2008 (Patch 2.4.1)
this is in response to everyone who suggested the area in dalaran gives more turtle meat - this is false. i have done this quest (or forms of it) both as a horde and as an alliance, through about 6 characters and both sides of the map (since April 2007) gives about the same quantity of turtle meat (between 1-2 from memory). So there's really no need to run all the way up north and then come back down to finish up a quest "quick".
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By Anonymous on 05/12/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)
alteric mountains west. north west of where quest recieved :D

also get the spice from rp.
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By Anonymous on 07/24/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
Yo who sells it and where?
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By Anonymous on 12/17/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
For the one that were complaining the drop is lousy you just had bad luck it took me less then 8 min to get the all 10xTurtle Meat. All you have to do is run up the river stream(heading north) by the time you get to the top you show have all the meat you can eat....also some SnapJam(turtle) drop 2 meat instead of 1 so it easier and faster............................AlSO WATCH OUT FOR HORDES!

ALMOST FOR GOT: THE RIVER IS EAST OF SOUTHSHORE
CORD: START AT 55,58
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By Anonymous on 01/22/2007 (Patch 2.0.5)
There no cords here i only need to tell you where you can find it: Its all along the river to the right when pressing "m". just go there and folow the river up (or down). they are all along the river!
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By Anonymous on 01/22/2007 (Patch 2.0.5)
buy spices from a coocking vendor!
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By Anonymous on 04/05/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
I killed every turtle up the river and got 1 friggin turtle meat (from 25-30 turtles).

I then went to the lake, as it says in the quest, and killed maybe 10 more turtles from the shore and got 1 more meat.&nbsp I was still in the Dalaran subzone as I did this.

I then went INTO the lake, so that I was in the actual Lordameare Lake subzone, and after that almost every turtle dropped meat, and some 2.&nbsp I only had to kill about 8 more turtles.

So I think maybe the drop rate is boosted if you're in the actual lake subzone.
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By Anonymous on 05/21/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
Me too, the drop rate sucks a lot. I went from the ocean and killed every turtle all the way up the river to the Western Plaguelands and only got five one way. Had to all the way back down to get the other five. I killed around 40 - 50 turtles.
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By Anonymous on 11/23/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
My 32 NE Hunter is doing this quest, mainly for the recipe and whatever faction I might get.
After two days of killing every turtle I see I have 7 of 10 of the meat. Plenty of other things for loot, mostly vender fodder, but also Tangy clam meat.
I've tried haunting the river from the rocks to the falls near South Shore, and I've tried elsewhere.
Basically the drop rate sucks.
I was 31 when I started this! An entire level from doing nothing but killing turtles.
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By mwahahaha86 on 09/17/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
i suggest grinding the turtles in the shimmering flats near the thousand needles. the drop rate there aint all that nasty and besides, on the mirage raceway, there are quests to be done and everything is found on the shimmering flats itself. watch out for higher level turtles between lvl 34-35. kill those lvl 30-31 turtles. located on the northwestern part of the shimmering flats!
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By cryptoengineer on 12/25/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Got 10 meats in 5 mobs, in the river just east of
South Shore. Super easy quest if you can handle
single lvl 30-31 mobs
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By thetaxzombie on 01/23/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
They were dropping 1 or two meats everytime and about 30% of the time got a clam besides. Was skinning besides for medium to heavy hides. Easy quest.

I just hunted up the river, then went around the falls and continued up river till I found the mountain lions for that quest and completed it also.
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By Anonymous on 08/22/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
the drop rate of the meat is outrageously low
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By Anonymous on 12/18/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
In the Theramore Inn there is a guy that gives a quest to collect forked mudrock tongues. As a 36 rogue I took this quest and had 9 turtle meat by the time I finished it. The drop rate on the tongues is nothing to write home about, but doing two low droprate quests at once can often lessen the pain.
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By Anonymous on 01/16/2005 (Patch 1.2.0)
Soothing spices can be purchased from vendor Micha Yance in Southshore
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By Anonymous on 08/10/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)
Discovered chillwind point to be the best drop area for this quest then work your way back down the river.
Work your way up the river after the waterfall nothing before it.
Non aggressive beasts so you attack they attack.
Great herbs along the way as well so have your minimap zoomed out for herbalism.
Had to get the spice in IF not avail in SS unless you know something I dont.
Many horde too non pvp.
Happy hunting.
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By Anonymous on 04/30/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
Face it folks many kill X number or collect X number will be the same. I experienced it with my now 70 hunter all the time. I did a quest one time when the drop rates for it were described as not only bad but almost non-existant. You live with it and remember you are getting experience. We all forget the quests we do that say collect 10x and we get tem all in 20 mobs.

Eir
Level 70 Hunter and Her Sidekick Floyd
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By Anonymous on 09/02/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
I read that the meat drop rate was real low. It didn't take me long to get the meat. Which I am glad for. I had some drop 2-3 pieces at a time, which helped out bigtime.
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