Yatay is a robatayaki restaurant inspired by izakayas and street culture of Japan and it occupies a three-storey space in Chinatown, with the restaurant on the ground and first floor and cocktail bar Zoku in the basement. It’s a broad menu, with bites, cold, hot, skewers, meat/fish and veggies/rice, on there so it’s worth taking your time over with a cocktail in hand. The skewers are the main focus but there are lots of tasty things to be found around those, including nutty beef tatare, garlic-ginger chicken karaage with spicy tofu dip, tuna tataki and pulled pork buns, so its best to hit each section. There are twelve different skewers on the menu, ranging from trout with kizami wasabi and koji-cured lam to roasted shallot with miso and cured beetroot with garlic, but if you can’t choose, Yatay has a six skewer roulette where the kitchen picks for you.