The "I dined at Noma Japan" restaurant review is the new "I foraged with René Redzepi" trend piece, but here's one with a delightfully unexpected takeaway: that the Noma experience can be summed up nicely via emoji. In her review published this week, Bloomberg restaurant critic Tejal Rao included an emoji interlude that spells out her .
The takeaway, for those not fluent in emoji, is that Noma's ongoing Japan pop-up is a four-star experience that costs three moneybags, offering dishes like sea urchin pizza and a cloud water tofu with two nuts, two oranges, and a side of flamenco dancing. Also maybe a love letter to Japanese mussels is involved. Go, decipher the emoji story above, and be thankful that the notorious poop-swirl emoji doesn't make an appearance.