Yaya Tea Garden

Love it here. The drinks and riceball are the best! My go to place! Love the shrimp riceball or Yaya shrimp riceball and my favorite drink is either better life or 5 wishes. I love pop lychee .

amazing drinks (boyfriend, mango star/lychee jelly ) with many fruit combos and great snack and lunch items(rice balls and yakisoba ), grab some friends and get some food from this hole-in-the-wall!

For bubble tea try Sunrise with Pop Strawberry or Boyfriend with anything. For onigiri , personal fav is Yaya (seaweed and mayo ) or Plum . Place can get really crowded but line usuallymoves fast enough

Go for the onigiri and boba tea (I get shrimp + crabmeat onigiri with Supernova tea , mango strawberry popping boba ). Love the variety of Japanese packaged snacks that line the wall too

I've been eating here for the past 2 yrs & still come here at times. They have more than 50 types of drinks all with different flavors!! Also offers some delicious food like riceballs for only $2.50!!

This is my favorite place for a non-milk tea . You can't go wrong with their top sellers and I love the Pop lychee / Mango Stars instead of the regular bubbles.

Alternative milk alert! They have almond milk ! It does cost 75¢ extra, which is steep, but worth it in an area where that is tough to find. Japanese onigiri is very yummy.

Boba/tapioca is not good but onigiri is delicious and a great deal! Get the yaya rice ball + shrimp (or anything else), which has seaweed salad inside. $10 minimum for cards, which can be hard to hit.

You must try the spring roll onigiri . It is so good. Would probably make a Japanese person cringe but it feels so good on my uncultured white Western taste buds

Onigiris , bubble tea , and other drinks are the best. I love the udon there!!! :) I took my friends there and they loved it also!!! ????????????????????????❤????

Great prices, amazing food, sweet cold drinks and punch card/belly rewards to top it all off! Favorites: Shrimp/Crab Onigiri and the "I Love Yaya "

forget those expensive sushi rolls at your neighborhood local sushi bar . the rice balls here are the bomb and cheap ! go for the large ya ya shrimp rice ball (tempura shrimp and seaweed ).

There is a new onigiri here! Ask for the Pork Belly & Onion rice ball .

Delicious fruity teas , and a surprisingly good pre-packaged squid onigiri (squid was tender and meaty).

The Japanese Onigiri (rice ball ) is delish ????????. Awesome drink flavors with great names, including "the boyfriend" and "the atomic wedgie"

The Japanese rice ball was perfect, rice is still steamy when they hand it over so the seaweed wrapper doesn't crack. The mango jelly was pretty tasty in my white peach tea .

Tokyo is my favorite but everything is really good there.

I got the Shrimp and Crab + the chicken . The shrimp and crab was definitely the better of the two.

Very good onigiri (salmon and ginger chicken ); a bit grungy ambiance

LOVE THE JAPANESE RICEBALL!! (crabmeat , eggs , and seaweed ) i almost get it every single time I go.

They have lots of boba choices. Get the pop lychee bubbles that burst in your mouth!

shrimp tempura riceball w spicy mayo . yum. really friendly and welcoming service too. word yo.

Fishballs, tako yaki, bubble tea , Japanese snacks

Good place to wait for the Lucky Star bus and have a tea or snack / avoid the other people who take the Lucky Star bus .

From Serious Eats: Tokyo Fried Chicken plate (chopped katsu ) and Milk Tea with Ginger

Organic tea . They have soy milk too (rare in c-town).

Any drink with a Japanese riceball is the best!!

The Japanese and chicken yaya rice balls are our favorite!

Try the Hulk (green apple and kiwi with green tea ) added mix jelly or green tea jelly .. Check out their large riceballs ;)

Riceballs made to order and fresh tea brewed daily! ????????????

Get the large sized onigris instead of the small. The large shrimp tempura has 2 shrimp tails!

Good for a quick snack and delicious teas

I wouldn't have stumbled in here if it wasn't for my friend, but the bubble tea and rice balls are to die for!

Try the "Vivi Special" riceball paired with a cold Red-Sox :)

I <3 Better Life with the mango stars!! Rice rolls r just as good!! My Friday night dinner w the Chinatown Girl Scouts before our meeting!

Love this place. Bubble tea and shrimp rice ball !!!!!

The fruit tea (without modifications) is overbearingly sweet.

One of the few places in Manhattan that has pop boba .

Get the strawberry black ice tea and a rice ball to go with it.

The employees are so sweet! Get the tempura rice ball ... mmmmm

try everything at least once!

Definitely coming back here to load up on Japanese snacks .

Great food and drinks -- could work on the decor though, a tad bit ghetto

They make handmade onigiri on the spot for $2.25 to $3 and freshly brew tea hot or cold from $3 to 3.50!

Dem kids weren't lying when they say the onigiris are what's up!

if you feel like trying something new ask the workers to fix you a random drink :)

Must try the period pad (the drink) and the riceballs :]

Salmon Onigiri so good!

Drinks are half off with a purchase of a meal (rice/noodle) :]

Shrimp Tempura Onigiri : $2.50