Fish cake with swirl emoji meaning

The fish cake with swirl emoji is a graphical representation of a Japanese food called "taiyaki." Taiyaki is a type of sweet pastry made in the shape of a fish, and is typically filled with sweet red bean paste or custard. The emoji shows a golden-brown fish-shaped pastry with a swirl on top, which is meant to represent the filling inside. This emoji can be used to represent the food itself or to convey a sense of enjoyment or indulgence in Japanese culture or cuisine.

The fish cake with swirl emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026L2/07257