Yaya Tea - Durham

This is an attractive, friendly, and fun place. We enjoyed the many boba tea options and the rice balls, which are actually triangles in clever take-out packaging. Parking was plentiful and there was no line on a Saturday morning. My grand daughter, a big boba tea fan, says this is the best place for the sugary treat in Durham.

The worst food I’ve had at a restaurant in a long time. My friend and I ordered a chicken and salmon rice ball to share. The chicken was barely palatable. The salmon one was white (like tuna, not pink like salmon ought to be) and I had one bite before I threw it out.The coffee was fine.

Most 1,2, or 3 stars have common point that is:The Boba in their drinks and ours was hard, gummy sticking to each other decomposing? stale Boba. It should have been thrown out , but they just want to put it in your drink and hope you are an unsuspecting first time or or not a discerning Boba drinker. We have been to all the Boba Cafes in Chapel Hill it gets confusing, but We think this happened at the Yaya there too. I wonder does it take a long time to process fresh Boba and is it a high cost??. Doubtful.We liked the passion fruit tea w/o sweetening. But we told them of the boba in it issue asked for just a little more tea to maybe soften all the Boba that was at the bottom so disappointing. Not wanting to win over return customers, she gave us an unpleasant NO , you drank all the tea Her manager appeared whispered, she whispered back that was that. We left bummed out, but did like the rice nori triangles; 1salmon and a shrimp one.

Absolutely amazing!! I walked in and I was immediately blown away. This place is so well thought out to every detail. The stickers on the onigiri match what the filling is! I'm coming back with my friends and family for sure!!

The location is hard to find. We drove around for 20 minutes trying to find it. Once you do, you're met with a cute, small little place. I got the gyoza and the sauce was really good. I also got the rice balls and I was very happy with them. I got a sunrise tea with strawberry boba. I recommend getting 50% sweetness cause that's what I did and it was very sweet. The chicken rice ball is really good. The prices are high, but that's everywhere right now. What I liked about the service was there was a tablet where you can order and avoid a line. But you still have the option of ordering in person if you want. Food came out in 15 minutes. Weird amount of one direction playing but who am I to judge ‍