One of our favorite table-service restaurants in all of the Walt Disney World® Resort is Yak & Yeti — located in the Asia section of Disney’s Animal Kingdom® Park.
Ambiance
While Yak & Yeti is not owned by Disney, (it’s owned by the Laundry restaurant group) it was still built and designed by Disney imagineers. Sitting at the base of Expedition Everest, this Nepalese-style restaurant was once the small-town farm home of a Nepal family who collected a a variety of Southeast Asian artifacts. These antiquities serve are the backdrop to a very unique and different dining experience.
The Food
Yak & Yeti serves a bountiful array of various Asian dishes from all regions. The menu includes eclectic options such as sweet-and-sour chicken, ahi tuna nachos, pork pot stickers and Kobe beef burgers. Vegetarian options abound, as do kid-friendly choices like egg rolls, cheeseburgers and chicken tenders.
We always begin our meal with lettuce cups — minced chicken breast, chopped vegetables, Saigon Haison sauce, and crisp lettuce cups. The lettuce is always cold and crisp, the chicken well seasoned, and the house-made Saigon Haison sauce delicious!
My favorite main course on the menu is the teriyaki chicken — marinated chicken, pineapple-onion-pepper skewers, teriyaki glaze, coconut-ginger rice, and stir-fried vegetables. You can get teriyaki chicken many places, but I have to admit, no one does it like Yak & Yeti! And the veggies that come with the dish are too die for. Make sure to ask for extra teriyaki sauce!
The last time we ate there my husband tried the seared miso salmon — miso glazed Atlantic salmon, coconut-ginger rice, baby bok choy and shiitake mushroom stir-fry. I’m not a big fish eater, so we’ll have to take his word for it, and he gives two big thumbs up!
Service
Service here is normally on point. We’ve never had a truly terrible experience with the wait staff or service at this particular restaurant. However, they are usually running behind by about ten minutes when it comes to seating and the restaurant is always cold. Bring your pull-over sweater or jacket!
Availability
While it can be hard to make snag reservations at this restaurant during peak periods, normally you can find reservations a few weeks out. This is especially true if you’re willing to dine at odd times — early lunch or early dinner. This is definitely one of our favorite sit-down restaurants at Animal Kingdom and at Walt Disney World.
