  We show that the Bowl soliton in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is the unique translating
solutions of the mean curvature flow which has the family of shrinking
cylinders as an asymptotic shrinker at $-\infty$. As an application, we show
that for a generic mean curvature flow, all (non-static) translating limit
flows are the bowl soliton. The crucial point is that we do not make any global
convexity assumption, while as the same time, the asymptotic requirement is
very weak.
