Overall Rating: 3
Our party was split on this meal. DSis and her DH loved it, I liked it, DH did not care for it. Service was very slow, some dishes were good, some very mediocre. Beautifully themed restaurant!
After DH, DD, and I enjoyed the truly wonderful Wildlife Discovery Excursion in Africa, we all planned to meet up again and have lunch. Surprise! My parents decided to join us at AK after all (they originally planned to do something else this day
we knew they couldnt resist more time with their darling granddaughter
). We met them near Expedition Everest and the kids went on while the parents watched our DD (and she devoured an ice cream cone from a nearby stand). We decided to walk over a bit early to Yak & Yeti to see if we could get in to eat at 12 rather than 12:30. No problem!
They sat us right away at a very cool peacock mosaic table in a corner. Our server was very nice and enthusiastic, but ended up being very slow towards the end (we asked for the check 3 times!).
I mentioned my mustard problem and he had a chef come out and talk with me. I believe I was denied bottled water here on the plan. This bugged me at the places where they dont allow adults bottled water on the plan
kids can get it (as well they should) so should adults. I would have even settled for a kids small bottle, oh well
I think that I ordered iced tea.
Despite the slow service, we were once again impressed with the simplicity of having three different parties paying at our table, and no problems (ever) with mix-ups over bills or charges.
My parents were simply paying out of pocket, not on a plan, and we and my sis were on two different deluxe dining plans. We all ordered starters, including DDad and DM who shared the lettuce cups.
Pork Pot Stickers - pan seared or steamed, soy lime dipping sauce
Dh ordered these seared and they were good
he thought they were pretty average (similar to any typical Asian restaurant take-out version) but made well enough. He did not care for the dipping sauce.
Wok-Fried Green Beans - battered green beans, sweet Thai chili dipping sauce
These were tasty; everyone enjoyed them! The batter was flavorful, nicely dense and crispalmost like a beer batter with cornmeal added, but didnt taste of beer! The dipping sauce was sweet and only slightly spicy, Dh stole some from me for his potstickers as well. I think two of us ordered these and all shared them.
Lettuce Cups - minced chicken breast, chopped vegetables, maple tamarind sauce, crisp lettuce cups
I had a small bite and found this to be better than most lettuce cup appetizers, of which I am normally not a fan. I liked the tangy, sweet tamarind sauce.
Tempura Shrimp - chili plum sauce, coconut-ginger rice, stir fried vegetables
I really enjoy shrimp and was hoping this would be an easy winner
but, it was not so good.
The batter was flavorless and a tad un-crisp, not exactly soggy, but not very fresh tastingthe shrimp was also flavorless. Needless to say, I only ate a couple before giving up. The serving was large, hmmm
veggies were over-cooked, and the rice, which should normally be a redeeming component of such a meal, was awful! I love coconut and ginger, but this tasted of neither. The rice itself was not jasmine rice either, as had been described to me, it was more like a long-grain rice, with no gentle scent that one can enjoy from jasmine or basmati. Weird. DD received two lovely servings of actual jasmine rice, which I shared with her. Funnily, my rice was loaded with flecks of color/ingredients (presumably the elusive coconut-ginger) which imparted nothing to the starchy blandness. You know what it tasted like? Box rice mix, with "flavor" packets...the kind I had as a kid, and didn't like then.
Crispy Honey Chicken - tempura chicken, broccoli, carrots, honey sauce
Now, DH and DSis ordered this dish. DSis loved it, DH did not. He didnt think it was bad, simply uninspired
again, average. I tasted it and thought it was actually quite yummy! (Perhaps in part because my meal was not so good). I would, though, order this on a return visit. The chicken was white meat (we asked for white meat for this and for DDs chicken, it would NOT have been all white meat had we not asked) and the batter was crisp and tasty underneath a sweet, but not overly sweet, honey sauce. Good old jasmine rice accompanied this, and it was great of course. One could also select brown riceI should have!
DDs meal was basically the tempura chicken (no sauce) with two small cups of jasmine rice. She ate a small amount of chicken, and a fair amount of rice (she loves rice of all kinds!). I thought it was good for a kids meal, the chicken was good quality and well prepared. I wished our server had mentioned she could have veggies AND riceit wasnt clear to me when we ordered and she asked for ricebasically I didnt expect two cups of rice. No biggie! But good to know for future visits.
At this point in the meal we had been waiting for our server for some time to place our dessert orders
we almost left it took so long! We wanted to get moving, and we were all full. But, since desserts were included, we went ahead. We did ask for the check at this point since we could tell how the tide was turning. We had to ask two more times before our server brought it. They had gotten pretty busy, however, we had to wait waaayyy too long, even for busy.
Fried Wontons - Skewers of fresh pineapple and cream cheese wontons, vanilla ice cream, honey vanilla drizzle
I debated ordered this, which I had seen on many Dis reviews, or the mango pie. The mango pie (I love mango!) looked more appealing to me on a normal day, but I knew I would only have a bite, so went with this because it seemed a good choice for just a bite.
I liked this! The wontons tasted exactly like any cream cheese wontons you could order anywhere, but the honey vanilla drizzle was quite wonderful, the honey could be detected, as could actual vanilla flavor. The ice cream was good vanilla ice cream, went well with the rest. This is a super rich dessert
a good choice to share, I only had one. Even if I had been hungry still, I couldnt have eaten much more than 2 or 3 because they were so rich. I did eat all those beautiful little ripe strawberries.
Sorbet - Mango, lemon, raspberry
These looked lovely! I sampled one small taste of the mango and it was delicious; bright, fresh full of mango flavor, not overly sweet.
I know that my sis will return to Yak & Yeti
I am not sure we will. We truly wanted to like this restaurant!
I would return because I found the ambience to be delightful and fun. I enjoyed my starter and dessert, as well as Dhs main, so feel like I could return and have an enjoyable meal. However, Dh said he has NO desire to return, that he could get that food easily anywhere at home (true enough) but did agree it was a fun spot to sit.
I suppose we may try a CS next time in AKany suggestions???
We also ate lunch at Tusker House earlier in our trip and had a lovely meal, although DH does not care for the food there as much as I do. We had TERRIFIC service and you can feel more relaxed about eating your meal at lunch. 
Despite the fact that there are not an abundance of TS options at AK, I think Tusker House is certainly worth choosing for breakfast or lunch, both offer good food and a very fun time! 
We went to Tusker House for breakfast as well. If you return, it would really be worth to find out whether you can eat the ham. It was really great! And they also had some fruit chutneys at the same station as the jams and this was so good with the ham!
DH did not eat any of this right away, he was also so full. He told me that he tried a few bites later as he put the trays outside the room, and it was very good. This looked like a typical rich chocolate cake with a thick mousse filling, three layers.
We were sent like 10 large pieces of cornbread! I love good cornbread
this was slightly sweet, soft, not too dense with a delicate crumb, and of course delish with the soft butter they sent. 
