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welcome to YAO, a food pop-up to chew (咬), want (要), and heal (药). we're here to reinvent the original and make traditional chinese medicine taste like something you actually want to eat.

YAO
01

pickled vegetables

veggies from local farm / dates

02

chestnut

chestnut soup / mai ya / roasted rice

03

pork

pork meatball / fontina / fig / aged orange skin

04

gnocchi

chinese yam / dates

05

duck

taro / black cabbage / duck jus / sichuan peppercorn

06

greens

chrysanthemum / honey roasted buckwheat / agrumi

07

layered cake

vanilla sponge / snow fungus & clementine gel / poached pear