Yo! Sushi is offering free buckets of Japanese Fried Chicken to customers in Newcastle this week.
To get a free bucket of Yo's 'JFC', bring an empty chicken bucket from a rival restaurant, such as KFC or Jollibee and the Yo! staff will fill it with free chicken.
Yo! Sushi in Grainger Street, Newcastle, and in the Metrocentre, Gateshead are taking part in the offer, which runs on Thursday. Up to 20 free buckets will be given away from each restaurant, limited to one per person.
Eating fried chicken around Christmas is a tradition in Japan, with more than 3.6 million buckets consumed in the country during the festive season.
Yo! has created the 'bucket exchange' to mark the launch of its festive menu, which includes the JFC Bucket filled with chicken tenders brined in buttermilk and fried in a secret YO! spiced flour before being sprinkled with nori tinsel.
The bucket (£14.95 or £29.50 for two people) is served alongside Korean wings, crunchy slaw, YO! fries, and the choice of miso corn on the cob or teriyaki BBQ beans and a pot of katsu curry sauce.
Victoria Mathers, UK head of marketing at YO! said “Fried chicken for Christmas in Japan is a tradition going back decades. This Christmas, we’re introducing Japanese Fried Chicken to give consumers an unexpected twist on the Christmas menu. Japanese Fried Chicken really is finger licking good. Our JFC Bucket Exchange is sure to send hungry foodies flocking to our restaurants, but if you miss out, don’t worry – you can still enjoy the dish on our festive menu throughout December.”
The Christmas menu also includes the JFC Christmas Sando (£8.95), a special sandwich with all the JFC trimmings including a miso coated hash brown, crunchy slaw, karaage popcorn chicken skewer and katsu curry sauce. YO! offers a vegan version of its JFC too.
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