Yaki Soba Wagamama Recipe & Price

How much is yaki soba at Wagamama?

Wagamama's yaki soba family is four dishes. The chicken and prawn yaki soba, the one most people mean, is £15.50. The yasai mushroom yaki soba, which swaps the meat for mushrooms and vegetables, is £14.40, and so is its no-egg version, made for vegans. The chicken and prawn yaki udon, the same idea on thicker noodles, is £15.30. All four are dine-in prices for England, Scotland and Wales; delivery and airport prices are set separately.

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  Yasai Mushroom Yaki Soba vegetarian

  768 kcal

  Yaki soba with mushrooms and vegetables. Vegetarian.

  £14.40
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  Yasai Mushroom Yaki Soba, No Egg vegan

  638 kcal

  The same dish made without egg, on udon or rice noodles, so it is vegan.

  £14.40
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  Chicken + Prawn Yaki Udon

  714 kcal

  Chicken and prawn over thick yaki udon noodles.

  £15.30
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  Chicken + Prawn Yaki Soba

  789 kcal

  Chicken and prawn yaki soba with egg, peppers, beansprouts, crispy onions, pickled ginger and sesame.

  £15.50

Children get their own smaller portions, at £6.50 for the yaki soba and £5.70 for the yasai version. They're listed on the kids menu with the rest of the children's dishes.

• Kids' yaki soba£6.50
• Kids' yasai yaki soba£5.70

What's in the yaki soba Wagamama serves?

Yaki soba is a Japanese stir-fried noodle dish. Yaki means grilled or fried and soba is the noodle, so the name simply means fried soba. Wagamama's chicken and prawn version arrives with egg, peppers, beansprouts, crispy onions, pickled ginger and sesame seeds.

Wagamama's own recipe shows how those pieces come together. The chicken is browned with grated ginger first, then the prawns and vegetables go in until they start to colour. The noodles are tossed with beaten egg before they join the pan, which is what coats every strand, and the seasoning goes in last: a spoonful each of Worcestershire sauce and light soy sauce. The sesame seeds, crispy onions and pickled ginger are added at the plate.

Wagamama describes the flavour as sweet, savoury and bold, and says the sauce combines soy sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and other seasonings. It also points out what separates yaki soba from chow mein: chow mein is fried until crisp, while yaki soba stays soft and chewy. There's no chilli on the ingredient list, so this is a savoury, slightly sweet dish rather than a hot one.

The soba noodles Wagamama uses are not described on the printed menu. Soba is traditionally a buckwheat noodle, but packet soba is often blended with wheat flour, and Wagamama's allergen chart lists wheat gluten for every yaki soba dish. Its recipe adds to the confusion: the ingredient list asks for soba noodles, while the method says to cook egg noodles. For the origins of the rest of the menu, see where each Wagamama dish comes from.

Wagamama yaki soba calories

The chicken and prawn yaki soba is 789 kcal, about 39% of the 2,000 kcal reference intake used on UK food labels. With it come 34g of protein, 37g of fat and 3.7g of salt. The salt is the figure to notice: the adult limit is 6g a day, so this one dish supplies more than half of it. For comparison, the chicken katsu curry is 988 kcal.

The vegetarian versions are lighter. The yasai mushroom yaki soba is 768 kcal. The no-egg version made for vegans is 638 kcal on udon or 660 on rice noodles, and Wagamama's chart puts its fat at 18g against 35g for the egg version. The chicken and prawn yaki udon comes in at 714 kcal.

• Chicken + prawn yaki soba789 kcal
• Yasai mushroom yaki soba768 kcal
• Yasai mushroom yaki soba, no egg, on udon638 kcal
• Yasai mushroom yaki soba, no egg, on rice noodles660 kcal
• Chicken + prawn yaki udon714 kcal

To see every dish side by side, use the calories page.

Is Wagamama yaki soba gluten free?

No. Every adult yaki soba and yaki udon dish lists cereals containing gluten (wheat) on Wagamama's allergen chart, and none appears on Wagamama's gluten-free menu. The name can mislead, because soba made purely from buckwheat is gluten free, but that isn't what the chart describes. The one exception is the kids' yaki soba, which Wagamama offers gluten free on rice noodles. The details are on the kids menu.

For other allergies, the chart lists adjusted versions of the chicken and prawn yaki soba: one without prawns for a crustacean allergy, one without sesame seeds for a sesame allergy, and versions on rice noodles or udon for an egg allergy. Each of those still lists gluten, so none of them helps anyone avoiding wheat. Check the current chart and tell your server about every allergy on each visit. The full lists are on the allergy menu.

Yaki udon Wagamama vs yaki soba

The two are close relatives, and the obvious difference is the noodle. Soba is thinner; udon is a thick, chewy wheat noodle. The Wagamama yaki udon is £15.30, 20p less than the yaki soba at £15.50, and its nutrition chart is lighter too: 714 kcal against 789, with about 12g less fat (26g against 37g) and slightly less salt (3.3g against 3.7g). The yaki udon has a little more protein, 37g against 34g.

One difference matters for allergies. Wagamama's chart lists fish for the yaki udon but not for the yaki soba, and it doesn't say which ingredient is responsible. If you avoid fish, treat the two dishes as different and check the chart before ordering the udon.

Yasai yaki soba Wagamama: the vegetarian and vegan versions

Yasai is Japanese for vegetables, and the yasai yaki soba replaces the chicken and prawns with mushrooms and other vegetables. There are two versions. The yasai mushroom yaki soba is vegetarian, £14.40 and 768 kcal, and it still contains egg. The vegan version is the same dish made without egg, on udon or rice noodles; it costs the same £14.40 and is 638 kcal on udon or 660 on rice noodles. Both contain gluten, sesame and soya, and may contain sulphites. There is also a kids' yasai yaki soba at £5.70, on the kids menu.

Wagamama yaki soba recipe

Wagamama publishes its own recipe for the chicken and prawn yaki soba, and it's a quick one: it serves two, with 10 minutes of prep and 10 of cooking. The quantities below are Wagamama's; the method is rewritten in our words.

Wagamama yaki soba kit

If the sauce is the part you'd rather not hunt down, Wagamama lists a yaki soba meal kit for two. It contains dried noodles, a yaki soba soy sauce, pickled ginger and crispy fried onions: the sauce and the two toppings. You supply your own protein and vegetables, so it's a starting point rather than a complete meal, and it carries a cereals-containing-gluten warning. Wagamama's kit page doesn't sell it directly. It points to Asda, so check stock there before you go.

Other noodle dishes at Wagamama

The yaki soba sits in Wagamama's noodles section, beside a few dishes cooked in a similar way. Three of them are teriyaki soba, sold with chicken at £16.90, salmon at £18.00 or steak at £20.90, and all three share the same base of mangetout, bok choi, onion, chilli and beansprouts with sesame seeds. Katsu udon, at £14.40, is the vegan option: udon in katsu sauce with vegetables and crispy sweet potato. The saku saku duck soba, at £20.90, is crispy duck on soba noodles with amai sauce. Wagamama publishes that sauce's recipe, and we've set it out with its calories and allergens on the sweet sauce guide.

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  Katsu Udon vegan

  848 kcal

  Udon noodles in katsu sauce with vegetables and crispy sweet potato. Vegan as it comes, or add chicken for £3.50.

  £14.40
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  Chicken Teriyaki Soba

  769 kcal

  Soba noodles with mangetout, bok choi, onion, chilli, beansprouts and sesame seeds. The cheapest of the three.

  £16.90
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  Salmon Teriyaki Soba

  994 kcal

  Soba noodles with mangetout, bok choi, onion, chilli, beansprouts and sesame seeds.

  £18.00
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  Steak Teriyaki Soba

  864 kcal

  Soba noodles with mangetout, bok choi, onion, chilli, beansprouts and sesame seeds.

  £20.90
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  Saku Saku Duck Soba

  933 kcal

  Crispy duck over soba noodles with amai sauce, egg, beansprouts, leek, spring onion and chilli.

  £20.90

Want something on the side? Wagamama publishes the recipe for its crispy cauliflower side, and we've set it out with its calories and allergens on a page of its own.

Yaki soba FAQs

So, is Wagamama's yaki soba worth ordering?

For a noodle dish that isn't a soup, it's an easy choice. At £15.50 you get chicken, prawns, egg and vegetables for 789 kcal, lighter than the katsu curry's 988, and the vegetarian version is £14.40. The two things to weigh are the salt, at 3.7g, and the wheat, which rules it out for anyone avoiding gluten. If you'd rather cook it, the recipe above takes 20 minutes and feeds two, and the meal kit covers the sauce.