"It is commonly used in chicken soup and in "sopa seca", a type of side-dish.In countries of the Indian subcontinent, vermicelli is known by various local names such as, "Semya" in Telugu, ""sevai"" in Tamil, "Semiya" in Malayalam, "shavige" in Kannada, "shemai" in Bengali, "seviyan" in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi, vaLavaT/shevaya in Marathi, "simei" in Odia, "sev" in Gujarati, "semige" in Tulu.