うどん
うどん · udon · JLPT N2 · noun
noodle
🍜 Sounds like oo-DONE: thick udon takes ages to boil, then oo, done!
One theory traces うどん to the Chinese dumpling 餛飩 (hundun), which Japanese once read as konton, then unton, then udon. Its old kanji spelling 饂飩 keeps the food radical 飠 on both characters.