Yatai

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A yatai (屋台, yatai^?) is a small, mobile food stall in Japan typically selling ramen or other hot food.

The stall is set-up in the early evening on pedestrian walkways and removed late at night or in the early morning hours before commuters begin to fill the streets. Menus are usually limited; Japanese cuisine (often of Chinese origin) is of course most common, but Western cuisine yatai are not unknown. Beer, sake and shōchū are usually available. A salaryman might relax with colleagues over dinner and drinks at a yatai on his way home from work.

Fukuoka-shi is well-known within Japan for having many yatai.

Yatai are also set up temporarily for Japanese festivals, selling foods for spectators, such as yakisoba, kakigori, takoyaki, and okonomiyaki.

[edit] External links

• On the History of Fukuoka's Yatai (English)
• Fukuoka Travel: Food Stalls (English)
• Yatai in Fukuoka-shi (Japanese)