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Cha-Ya Vegetarian Japanese Cuisine
Menu for Cha-Ya Vegetarian Japanese Cuisine
Soup
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Dobin Mushi
$5.50
(pot soup) clear soup with spinach, shimeji and eryngll mushrooms, tofu, carrots, and gingko nuts, served in a pot
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Kinoko Miso
$4.50
(mushroom soup) miso soup with Portobello, shimeji, and eryngll mushrooms, tofu, scallions, and kaiware sprouts, served in an iron pot
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Vegan Soup
$4.00
organic beans, split peas, lentils, and brown rice, light ginger flavor
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House Miso Soup
$3.00
a small bowl of miso soup with wakame sea vegetable, tofu and scallions
Salad
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Senroppon Salad
$5.75
shredded daikon, turnip, cucumber, and carrots with atsuage tofu, radishes, soy beans, kaiware, and toasted pine nuts, soy-vinaigrette dressing, (shredded salad)
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Soba Salad
$6.50
soba noodles topped with various seasonal vegetables, sesame-oil vinaigrette dressing
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Sea Vegetable Salad
$6.00
a variety of marine vegetables including seasoned hijiki served with a creamy sesame dressing
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Sunomono
$5.00
(cucumber vinaigrette salad) sliced cucumber and radishes with golden raisins, wakame, silver noodles, and toasted organic soy beans, non-oil rice vinaigrette
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Eda Mame
$4.50
(soy beans) soybeans boiled and lightly salted
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Goma Ae
$5.75
(sesame greens) blanched spinach and broccolini, topped with a sesame dressing
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Shira Ae
$5.75
(vegetables with tofu dressing) blanched spinach with seasoned lotus root, carrots, shiitake, green beans, tofu pouch, and yam cake, served with a tahini-tofu dressing
Kozara
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Agedashi Tofu
$5.75
deep-fried tofu in a special sauce, garnished with grated daikon and ginger, kaiware, scallions, and shredded nori, (deep-fried tofu)
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Robata Yaki
$5.25
(vegetable skewers) broiled pieces of Portobello mushroom, red onion, asparagus, eggplant, and zucchini, served on 2 skewers with robata sauce
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Ten Bou
$5.50
(deep-fried veggie sticks) sticks of yam, carrots, banana squash, atsuage tofu, and green beans, lightly battered and deep-fried, served with tempura sauce
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Haru Maki
$6.00
(spring roll) (2 rolls cut into 6 pieces) asparagus, shiitake, carrots, long beans, silver noodles, and atsuage tofu wrapped in rice sheets, lightly fried and served with sweet and sour sauce
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Gyoza
$5.50
(pot stickers) vegan pot stickers, pan-fried and served with gyoza sauce
A La Carte
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Hangetsu
$7.25
(Portobello mushroom) Portobello mushroom layered with atsuage tofu, dipped in light batter and deep-fried, served with kiwi fruit sauce
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Dengaku
$8.25
(eggplant and tofu) broiled eggplant, tofu, and Portobello mushroom with a miso-paste glaze
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Moon Garden
$8.25
(tofu custard) steamed tofu custard with broccoli, carrots, shimeji mushrooms, kabocha, atsuage tofu, snow peas, asparagus, zucchini, broccolini, soybeans, and gingko nuts
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Vegetable Tempura
$8.25
eggplant, yam, asparagus, carrots, kabocha, mushrooms, green beans, and broccoli, lightly battered and deep-fried, served with tempura sauce
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Taku - Sui
$7.75
(gyoza and veggies pot) pot stickers, tofu, zucchini, nappa cabbage, snap peas, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, silver noodles, and mushrooms in a light broth and served with a ponzu citrus sauce
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Cha - Ya Nabe
$8.50
(vegan sukiyaki) nappa cabbage, spinach, red onion, carrots, mushrooms, kabocha, broccoli, cauliflower, lotus root, zucchini, snap peas, snow peas, silver noodles, and tofu in sukiyaki broth, served in an iron pot
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Cha - Ya Delight
$8.25
(seasoned brown rice) seasoned organic brown rice topped with carrots, kabocha, broccoli, cauliflower, lotus root, zucchini, snap peas, snow peas, hijiki, atsuage tofu, shiitake, broccolini, pickled burdock and daikon, and kaiware
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Tonchi Nasu
$7.00
(stuffed eggplant) eggplant stuffed with setsuma potato, com, hijiki, carrots and soybeans, lightly battered and deep-fried, tempura style, served with a special ginger sauce
Combination Dinner Set - Dengaku # 18 with
- Hangetsu #17 $16.75
- Moon Garden #19 $17.75
- Tempura #20 $17.75
- Cha - Ya Nabe #22 $18.00
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $16.50
Combination Dinner Set - Moon Garden #19 with
- Hangetsu #17 $16.75
- Dengaku #18 $17.75
- Tempura # 20 $17.75
- Cha - Ya Nabe #22 $18.00
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $16.50
Combination Dinner Set - Tempura #20 with
- Dengaku #18 $17.75
- Moon Garden #19 $17.75
- Taku - Sui #21 $17.25
- Cha - Ya Nabe #22 $18.00
Combination Dinner Set - Taku - Sui #21 with
- Hangetsu #17 $16.25
- Dengaku #18 $17.25
- Moon Garden #19 $17.25
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $16.00
Combination Dinner Set - Cha - Ya Nabe #22 with
- Hangetsu #17 $17.00
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $16.75
Combination Dinner Set - Cha - Ya Sushi Plate #27 with
- Hangetsu #17 $15.50
- Dengaku #18 $16.50
- Moon Garden #19 $16.50
- Tempura #20 $16.50
- Taku - Sui #21 $16.00
- Cha - Ya Nabe #22 $16.75
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $15.25
Combination Dinner Set - Full Moon Sushi Plate #28 with
- Hangetsu #17 $16.50
- Dengaku #18 $17.50
- Moon Garden #19 $17.50
- Tempura #20 $17.50
- Taku - Sui #21 $17.00
- Cha - Ya Nabe #22 $17.75
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $16.25
Combination Dinner Set - Cha - Ya Delight #23 with
- Hangetsu #17 $16.25
- Dengaku #18 $17.25
- Moon Garden #19 $17.25
- Tempura #20 $17.25
- Taku - Sui #21 $16.75
- Cha - Ya Nabe #22 $17.50
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $16.00
Combination Dinner Set - Hana Gomoku #25 with
- Hangetsu #17 $16.50
- Dengaku #18 $17.50
- Moon Garden #19 $17.50
- Tempura #20 $17.50
- Taku - Sui #21 $17.00
- Cha - Ya Nabe #22 $17.75
- Tonchi Nasu #24 $16.25
Sushi
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Hana Gomoku
$8.50
(mixed sushi bowl) sushi rice served in a medium bowl, mixed with seasoned shiitake, green beans, lotus root, carrots, tofu pouch, yam cake, and hijiki, topped with various cooked vegetables
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Soba Sushi
$8.50
(buckwheat noodle sushi) a sushi roll made up of buckwheat noodles (in place of rice), spinach, atsuage tofu, asparagus, cucumber, pickled burdock, and seasoned kampyo gourd and shiitake, served with a soba dipping sauce
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Cha - Ya Sushi Plate
$7.50
one kappa roll (6 pieces), and one nigiri each of shiitake, eggplant, and sea vegetable salad
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Full Moon Sushi Plate
$8.50
one kappa roll (6 pieces), half vegan roll (2 pieces), and one inari
Sushi Dinner
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Hosomaki Combo Dinner
$11.50
choose any three hosomaki rolls listed below, (no substitutions please)
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Sushi Combo Dinner
$13.00
one kappa roll (6 pieces), one vegan roll (4 pieces), and two inari
Sushi a La Carte
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Cha - Ya Roll
$7.25
tempura sushi filled with avocado, yam, and carrots, the entire roll is lightly battered and deep-fried, served with a special house sauce, (cut into 8 pieces,)
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Shattuck Roll
$6.75
a large roll with asparagus and yam tempura, (cut into 5 pieces)
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Garden Roll
$6.75
a large roll with asparagus, spinach, avocado, cucumber, broccoli, pickled burdock, and kaiware sprouts, (cut into 4 pieces)
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Vegan Roll
$6.50
a large roll with spinach, atsuage tofu, cucumber, broccoli, pickled burdock, seasoned shiitake and kampyo gourd, and pickled ginger, (cut into 4 pieces)
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Vegetable Tempura
$6.75
a large roll filled with tempura of banana squash, carrots, yam, and green beans, (cut into 5 pieces)
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Summer Green Roll
$6.50
a large reverse roll with avocado, cucumber, and kaiware sprouts, topped with sea vegetable salad, (cut into 4 pieces)
Hosomaki Rolls
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Kappa
$3.70
(cucumber)
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Oshinko
$3.95
(pickled daikon)
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Umekyu
$3.95
(plum and cucumber)
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Kampyo
$3.95
(seasoned gourd)
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Kaiware
$3.95
(radish sprouts)
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Yamagobo
$3.95
(pickled burdock)
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Natto
$3.95
(fermented soybeans)
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Sea Vegetable Salad
$4.20
reverse roll - rice on the outside
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Eggplant
$4.20
reverse roll - rice on the outside
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Asparagus
$4.20
reverse roll - rice on the outside
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Spinach
$4.20
reverse roll - rice on the outside
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Shiitake
$4.20
reverse roll - rice on the outside
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Avocado
$4.20
reverse roll - rice on the outside
Nigiri Sushi
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Atsuage Tofu
$3.45
(fried firm tofu)
- Kaiware $3.45
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Shiitake
$3.70
(seasoned mushroom)
- Eggplant $3.70
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Hijiki
$3.70
(seasoned sea vegetable)
- Asparagus $3.70
- Avocado $3.70
- Broccolini $3.70
- Portobello $3.70
- Sea Vegetable Salad $3.70
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Inari
$3.70
(stuffed seasoned tofu pouch)
Uramaki Rolls
- Avocado Tempura $5.20
- Shiitake, Spinach $4.95
- Asparagus, Spinach $4.95
- Portobello, Spinach $5.20
- Avocado, Cucumber $4.95
- Avocado, Shiitake $4.95
Noodles
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Vege - Tofu Curry
$8.50
curry soup topped with tofu, kabocha, pearl onions, celery, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, mushrooms, and sugar snap peas
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Yasai
$8.50
(cooked vegetables) broccoli, cauliflower, atsuage tofu, kabocha, lotus root, zucchini, snap peas, carrots, and mushrooms
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Vegetable Tempura
$9.50
vegetable tempura served with a bowl of noodles
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Sansai
$8.25
(wild vegetables) edible bracken, bamboo shoots, carrots, and enoki and wood ear mushrooms
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Kinoko
$8.50
(mushrooms) mushroom medley: shimeji, eryngll, Portobello, and oyster mushrooms
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Wakame
$7.75
wakame sea vegetable
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Kitsune
$7.75
(tofu pouch) seasoned tofu pouch
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Kake
$7.50
(plain) plain noodles topped with scallions, kaiware, and shredded nori
Noodles.
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Zaru
$7.25
(plain) plain noodles topped with scallions, kaiware, and shredded nori
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Sansai Wakame Zaru
$8.25
(wild vegetables and sea vegetable) edible bracken, bamboo shoots, carrots, enoki and wood ear mushrooms, and wakame sea vegetable, served with cold noodles
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Vegetable Tempura Zaru
$9.50
vegetable tempura served with cold noodles
Kansai Set Noodle Dinner
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Kansai Set Noodle Dinner
$0.00
add two pieces of inari sushi and small sunomono salad to any noodle dish listed above for an extra $4.00, no substitutions please
Dessert
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Pineapple Chunks
$4.25
fresh pineapple chunks, lightly sweetened and served with green tea sauce and azuki bean sauce
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Oshiruko
$4.25
a warm bowl of sweetened azuki beans and mochi rice cakes
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Vegan Cake
$4.25
chocolate mousse cake made with unbleached wheat flour, cocoa, tofu, vegan chocolate chips etc
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Vegan Ice Cream Sundae
$4.25
soy-based vanilla 'ice cream' topped off with green tea sauce and azuki bean sauce, garnished with pineapple chunks
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Yellow Moon
$4.25
deep-fried organic banana, topped with green tea sauce and azuki bean sauce
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Pear Compote
$4.25
lightly sweetened fresh bosc pear, served with vanilla flavored organic soy milk and green tea sauce
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Ratings and Reviews for Cha-Ya Vegetarian Japanese Cuisine
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May 09 2012
Mehul P. via Yelp
I've visited many vegan/vegetarian restaurants in the Bay Area, and this is one of my personal favorites.read more
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May 08 2012
Steph C. via Yelp
I almost never eat out two nights in a row, and I don't think I've ever eaten out at the same restaurant two nights in a row. Until now. Highlights were...read more
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Apr 24 2012
Tom K. via Yelp
This was a pleasant surprise! I started with the soba salad. This thing was loaded with bright, fresh ingredients, including Chinese broccoli, bell...read more
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Dec 27 2008
via Citysearch
I'm not vegan. I just like good food. I was interested to see how the words good, vegan, and japanese go together. I got my ans...read more
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Aug 11 2008
JerryB123 via Citysearch
Although I'm not a vegetarian, I love a great veggie meal. My experience at Cha-Ya, however, was quite simply the most disappoint...read more
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Dec 14 2005
city_traveler via Citysearch
It's the best Japanese Vegetarian restaurant out there as far as I know. It's a must-eat whenever my friends/family and I go to Ba...read more