Yatai are stalls in Japan selling street food, and in this 2-4 player game from Dawn Town Games, you'll be adding customers, supplying them with food and drink, and recycling empties. It's a theme that's evident throughout this lively action selection game designed by Alfonso Bonfanti, Tommaso Roberto Ceglia and Riccardo Corti.
Players will variously be forming queues of customer/tourist meeples drawn from a bag, adding and bumping action tiles on their grid. Which dishes you can cook is dependent on what ingredients you've collected, and your fridge and bottle recycling facilities are both limited so need to be managed to keep you in contention.
The street food theme lends order to the various actions and makes the gameplay seem quite logical; which is a big plus. Publishers Dawn Town Games have put together a tasty package with commendably clear iconography, and Yatai is satisfying to play - especially when you are able to chain your actions together for a particularly profitable turn...