Yaya Tea - Chapel Hill

Super watery bubble tea (25% sweet). Interior smells a little artificial. Large diversity of toppings and flavours. Popping boba is fun. There is seating, wifi, and a store with stuffed animals. It’s fast service and not usually crowded. I just find the bubble tea (Boba) very hit or miss. $8 for mango green tea w lychee jelly and mango popping boba … that is not very potent… is just a bad deal. I hear their rice balls etc are nice, though.

Yaya tea is probably the best boba place on Franklin Street! The boba tastes amazing at a great price, and the atmosphere is very comforting. There is a lot of cute merch on display for sale. Yaya tea also sells food, and I have doordashed the rice balls multiple times. The rice balls taste amazing, and have cute packaging with adorable stickers I always save! The overall aesthetics are super cute, and it is very convenient ordering in store with the computerized machine or with the friendly workers. Highly recommend the Spam RB or making your own boba drink, as the drinks are very customizable!

I just ordered here for the first time today. We got 2 teas, takoyaki, and their crawfish riceball. Personally, we enjoyed their fruit and milk tea. It was sweet and flavorful. After reading the reviews I was scared the boba was not going to be good, but for us today, it was cooked well. The takoyaki was good, especially given their price. The reason why I only gave 3 stars was because of their rice ball. It is a hefty size; however, most of it is filled with rice. Today, the rice was a little bit harder, it may have been from the previous day. I ordered the spicy crawfish riceball, and was EXTREMELY disappointed to find that they put none-little crawfish. I didn't expect it to be filled with crawfish, but I would have hoped it would be visible. I even dug my fork around to find crawfish, and was very upset to only find 1 piece. Because this was take-out, if it was closer to my house, I would have immediately went back for a refund. Again, the food and drinks were good, but I feel extremely cheated out from the crawfish. I will go here again, but will always feel skeptical.

Service was okay but probably the worst boba I've ever had. I came a early Thursday morning and ordered a Oolong Milk Tea with boba an Almond milk? The tea itself unfortunately tasted very watery an I do not appreciate the fact they didn't mention they use Vanilla Almond milk because in my opinion it wasn't good in this drink. They offer one free scoop of boba as well, which I added. The scoop is not a full scoop it's a half a scoop. I was disappointed seeing this at first but after tasting the boba I was thankful it was only half. The boba was so bad it was super soggy and gelatinous on the outside and NO flavor, not sweet at all. It was very crummy and clumpy, HONESTLY taste like it sat over night (which I believe was the case). My sister got the Mango tea an unfortunately that tasted like a cheap artificial flavoring syrup. On a good note the Vegan chicken Onigiri and Seaweed Onigiri was really good an I have come back for that recently but I would NOT get the drinks here again.

This is my first time trying Yaya, and I love it! I've already been there 3 times this week. I've always wanted to try onigiri (rice ball), so I'm glad they serve them-- and with all kinds of fillings! I would prefer if the cold teas they serve came with ice, but I guess they might accommodate if I asked. Right know, until the end of July, they're having a promotion where if you order a small tea, they'll upgrade it to a large for free! This is becoming my new favorite place.