🍜 Steaming Bowl

Unicode lists 🍜 Steaming Bowl among the Asian dishes in the Food & Drink group. People send it when the subject is bowl, chopsticks, food and noodle. The keyword list continues with pho, ramen, soup and steaming.

🍜 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. It joined the standard with Emoji 0.6 in 2010, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F35C.

• A single 🍜 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about bowl, chopsticks, food and noodle.
• Often seen near 🍚 Cooked Rice, 🍛 Curry Rice and 🍝 Spaghetti.

Ramen is thought of as Japanese but came from China, arriving via Yokohama in the late nineteenth century. It only became a mass dish after 1945, when cheap American wheat shipments made it viable.

Today it is strongly regional: miso in Hokkaidō, tonkotsu in Fukuoka, shōyu in Tokyo. Loud slurping, incidentally, is not a cliché but normal – it cools the noodles and is not considered rude.

• 🍜🍚 – Steaming Bowl and Cooked Rice
• 🍜🍱 – Steaming Bowl with Bento Box
• 🍜🍢 – Steaming Bowl plus Oden
• 🍜🍠 – Steaming Bowl and Roasted Sweet Potato
• 🍜🍣 – Steaming Bowl with Sushi
• 🍜🍙 – Steaming Bowl plus Rice Ball
• 🍜🍤 – Steaming Bowl and Fried Shrimp
• 🍜🍛 – Steaming Bowl with Curry Rice

Easy to mix up with 🍚 Cooked Rice, 🍛 Curry Rice or 🍝 Spaghetti. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.