{"id":46774,"date":"2019-05-18T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=46774"},"modified":"2024-11-27T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:42:24","slug":"kyushu-oita-vegan-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/kyushu-oita-vegan-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Vegan Curry and Coffee in the Mountains of Nakatsu, Oita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If anyone is looking for a Rastafarian-inspired Japanese restaurant<\/strong>, look no further than Satta Yard in Nakatsu<\/a><\/strong>. About a 50-minute drive from the city and into the quiet hills of Nakatsu will bring you to some of the healthiest (and tastiest) vegan curries<\/strong> around. It might feel like a bit of a trek, but it takes a special kind of business to choose a location so far-flung and still manage to keep its doors open. Plus, it makes for a lovely Sunday afternoon drive, which is precisely what I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vegan Curry in the Remote Mountains of Oita<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With mountains misty and light with rain, I made the drive down the narrow and winding roads to Satta Yard<\/a><\/strong>. When I arrived, I wondered if I’m at the right place\u2013 there’s a woodshed with stacks of dried sticks in front, and a child’s bicycle sits by the entrance door. It felt more like I had arrived at someone’s home. A thin chimney pipe exhales a wisp of smoke, hinting at the cooking taking place within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Based on the foundations of the Rastafarian diet called Ital <\/em>cooking<\/strong>, Satta Yard focuses on providing meals free from additives, chemicals, and most meat. Inside, the interior remains cozy and warm, with all the quirks and charms of a DIY restoration<\/strong>. With misaligned wood panels, unfinished floors, and a rickety old wood stove burning away in the corner, its hip, rustic interior is strangely the perfect setting for its modern, high-tech kitchen in the back of the restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I order the curry of the day and watch as a man works away in the kitchen. He’s wearing a tall, knitted hat that’s stacked up high on his head; I can only guess there’s a mass of hair underneath. Together with a woman, the pair busily manage the restaurant together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n