No Sushi !

Well at last, a sensible well balanced decision from the European Food Safety Authority.  Yatai is now able to serve you our organic salmon in all its glory!  Great news!

Local organic vegetables with Japanese thinking.

A selection of seasonal vegetables from Colin Ward at Bridgefoot Organic Farm just outside Newmachar.

Excellent quality Sika and Roe Deer from Aberdeenshire Larder.  Keep your eyes on the blog over the next couple of days to see what the Yatai kitchen comes up with.

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A tasty delivery from India.  I know its not local but this one was too much to resist.  Junko has done a great job with this one. Delicious.

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Here we go, some great tomatos from France along with some Girolle mushrooms.  With a little thanks to Sam and the guys from ‘Wild Tastes’.

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A chance encounter at Cruden Bay resulted in a nice find of extremely live Velvet and Brown crabs. Had to make a high speed burn to get them back for Junko to cook up tonight! A good day.

Yatai, as you may already know, is open back at its old home on Skene Street (01224 635480).

We have totally changed the menu which we know maybe a little bit of a disappointment some of you who really loved what we have been doing.

As with the tradition of Yatai we always like to challenge people [...]

Please sign our petition: www.ipetitions.com/petition/frozenfishforsushi/

Under regulation (EC) 853/2004, annex III, Section VIII, Chapter III, D, 1. all unprocessed fishery products, intended to be eaten raw or almost raw (e.g. sashimi or sushi) require to have been frozen to -20C. Freezing of such fish may take place at any point in the supply chain prior to [...]

Check out Jonsan’s TV interview on BBC 2. Landward 7pm Friday 11 September talking about the Wagyu beef phenomenon!