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Yakitori (焼き鳥)
Yakitori (焼き鳥, やきとり) is Japanese grilled chicken on skewers, seasoned with shio salt or tare soy glaze and grilled over binchotan charcoal; the word also covers pork and offal skewers, and it is a subset of kushiyaki.
Yakult (ヤクルト)
Yakult (ヤクルト) is a Japanese probiotic fermented milk drink launched in 1935 by Dr. Minoru Shirota, containing Lacticaseibacillus paracasei strain Shirota, sold in 39 countries via Yakult Ladies and stores, with up to 100 billion cells per bottle in Yakult 1000.
Yana Gupta
Yana Gupta (Jana Synková, born 1979, Brno) is a Czech model and actress in India, known as the Lakme face of 2001 and for the item number "Babuji zara dheere chalo" in Dum (2003); married to and divorced from artist Satyakam Gupta, she later turned to music and writing.
Yangshao painted pottery
Yangshao painted pottery (仰韶彩陶) is the painted earthenware of the Neolithic Yangshao culture in the middle Yellow River valley, flourishing from about 5000 to 3000 BCE.
Yard of ale
Yard of ale: a trumpet-shaped beer glass about one yard (90 cm) long with a bulb at the closed end, also called yard glass or long glass; holds roughly two to three pints and is the basis of a traditional British pub drinking challenge.
Yarn
Yarn is a long, continuous strand of textile fibers or filaments twisted or bonded together, linking raw fiber to finished fabric through weaving, knitting, braids, ropes, and cords.
Yarn bombing
Yarn bombing, also called guerrilla knitting or yarn storming, is street art attaching knitted or crocheted items to public objects. Started by Magda Sayeg in Houston, 2005, with crew Knitta Please; often unsanctioned, tied to craftivism.
Yarn weight
Yarn weight classifies yarn by strand thickness, not ball weight. The US Craft Yarn Council system uses categories 0–7 defined by gauge; UK and Australian ply names (4-ply, 8-ply, aran) differ, and wraps per inch identifies unlabeled yarn.
Yarra Valley
Yarra Valley: cool-climate wine region east of Melbourne, Victoria's first wine region, planted 1838, revived 1960s. GI registered 1996; 2,837 ha; Pinot Noir and Chardonnay lead; grapes averaged $2,535/t in 2026.
Yasaka Shrine
Yasaka Shrine (八坂神社), long known as Gion-sha, is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto's Gion district, origin of the Gion Festival and head of roughly 2,300 branch shrines.
Yashe Talks About Eating
Yashe Talks About Eating (雅舍谈吃) is a 1985 collection of food essays by Chinese essayist Liang Shiqiu, recalling the foods of his youth in old Beiping.
Yasmin Le Bon
Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh), British supermodel born 1964 in Oxford to an Iranian father and English mother; married Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon in 1985; about 300 magazine covers, Wallis and Winser London designs, still walking for Fendi in 2025.
Yataghan
The yataghan (Turkish: yatağan) is an Ottoman sidearm with a single-edged, double-curved blade and an eared, guardless hilt, carried widely in Anatolia and the Balkans by the Janissaries.
Yatai (屋台) (food cart)
Yatai (屋台) are Japanese mobile food stalls with a roof and counter, no fixed shop. Best known from Fukuoka's postwar street stalls, regulated by the 2013 Yatai Basic Ordinance and operator recruitment; distinct from kitchen cars.
Yayoi pottery
Yayoi pottery (弥生土器) is the plain, thin-walled unglazed earthenware of Japan's Yayoi period, roughly 300 B.C. to 300 A.D., when rice farming spread through the islands.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a historic pub at 145 Fleet Street, London, rebuilt c.1667 after the Great Fire though it claims 1538; Grade II listed Samuel Smith pub famed for literary patrons including Dickens, Johnson, and Twain, and the parrot Polly.
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a Grade II listed public house built into the sandstone of Castle Rock at the foot of Nottingham Castle, claiming 1189.
Yellow badge
Yellow badge (Judenstern, Jewish badge, yellow star): cloth mark ordered onto Jews' clothing, from 8th-century Muslim caliphs through the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council to the Nazi-era Star of David decree of September 1, 1941.
Yellow ribbon
Yellow ribbon: a colored ribbon worn or displayed to remember someone far away, welcome them home, or support a cause. Modern use began with Penne Laingen in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, inspired by the 1972 Tony Orlando and Dawn song; earlier yellow ribbon uses include women's suffrage.
Yeondeunghoe
Yeondeunghoe (연등회, lotus lantern festival) is a Korean Buddhist lantern-lighting festival culminating in a parade, recorded since the 9th century and inscribed by UNESCO in 2020.
Yerba mate
Yerba mate, or mate, is a caffeinated South American infusion of Ilex paraguariensis leaves, of Guarani origin, spread by Jesuits; drunk via gourd and bombilla, led by Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil.
Yi Peng festival
Yi Peng (ยี่เป็ง) is the Lanna lantern festival of northern Thailand, held on the full moon of the second lunar month, coinciding with Loy Krathong; sky lanterns honor Phra Ket Kaew Chulamanee and float misfortune away.
Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (born 1962, London) is a British-Nigerian artist known for Dutch wax fabric sculptures and Nelson's Ship in a Bottle; MBE 2005, CBE 2019, RA 2013.
Yixing ware
Yixing ware (宜兴紫砂, zisha, literally purple clay) is an unglazed Chinese stoneware produced in Yixing, Jiangsu province, best known for its teapots and prized since the Ming dynasty.
Yoga Bar
Yoga Bar (Yogabar) is an Indian clean-label health-food brand by Sproutlife Foods, Bengaluru, founded by sisters Suhasini and Anindita Sampath; known for protein bars, muesli, and oats, and for ITC's 2023 phased acquisition of a 39.4% stake.
Yogurt
Yogurt (Turkish yoğurmak, to thicken) is fermented milk made with Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus; lactic acid at pH below 4.6 forms the gel, giving tart flavor, high protein, and improved lactose digestion.
Yohji Yamamoto (山本耀司)
Yohji Yamamoto (山本耀司), Japanese designer born 1943 in Tokyo; founded Y's in 1972 and debuted his eponymous black, oversized, asymmetric ready-to-wear label in Paris in 1981; also creative director of the Y-3 Adidas collaboration since 2002.
Yoo-hoo
Yoo-hoo is a shelf-stable American chocolate drink created by Natale Olivieri in 1920s New Jersey, not chocolate milk; endorsed by Yogi Berra and now owned by Keurig Dr Pepper.
YOOX Net-a-Porter Group
YOOX Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP) was an Italian online luxury fashion retail group headquartered in Milan, formed in 2015 by the merger of YOOX and Net-A-Porter.
York Peppermint Pattie
York Peppermint Pattie: dark-chocolate-covered peppermint candy created in 1940 by Henry Kessler at the York Cone Company, York, Pennsylvania; bought by Peter Paul in 1972 and by Hershey in 1988; about 1.5 billion made yearly.