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I'm about to start making a bunch of soup bowls so that I have them for next
years feed the hungry event. I like my soup bowls with a coffee mug handle
and plain low cylinder shape for stability. But since these aren't for me
I'm curious what others like. Any comments?

I like a well designed rice bowl for just about anything you'd eat or
drink from a bowl. Here are a few:

Nice lines but the base is a bit deep:
http://www.giftcollector.com/Product...0/31601.lg.jpg

Base a bit wide, curve of the sides not quite right:
http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/230413112?$gallery$

Base maybe a little narrow, and too sharply defined, otherwise good:
http://www.essentiallywhite.co.uk/im...00x500pixels/A
rctic_Round_Rice_Bowl.jpg

Pretty, but the sides are a little too vertical at the rim:
http://www.chinacraft.co.uk/images/P...all/966316.jpg

This one's pretty good (but I hate the transfers):
http://www.giftcollector.com/Product...0/44200.lg.jpg

I find that when it's just right a rice bowl is comfortable and secure
to hold in one hand or two, and to use with a spoon or as a cup.

Well, you did ask. :-)