noun
clam chowder
A thick soup made with clams, potatoes, and cream or tomato broth; a common menu item in Western-style restaurants in Japan.
今日のランチはクラムチャウダーとパンにしよう。
Let's have clam chowder and bread for lunch today.
Variant with a middle dot, sometimes used to separate the two parts of the loanword.
Borrowed from English 'clam chowder'.