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    Unu Cafe

    4.1 (339 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm
    Updated 2 months ago

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    Moderate noise
    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Helen N.

    They forgot to add durian in my Che thai :( I guess it was the way the tickets were placed

    Tropical Tea
    Julie H.

    Love the tropical tea here. So refreshing. Love that it's full of fruits as well. I always ask for less sweet.

    Christina N.

    This convenience store has basically anything you could want to snack on. There are sections for pre-packaged Vietnamese snacks, but also pre-cut fruit and the accompanying chili salt. In the back, you can order bubble tea with just about any topping you can think of. There were a few people working just on the teas, so they moved fast. My highlight, though, was the corn milk, which is exactly what it sounds like. While it's pretty decadent (it contains heavy cream), the corn flavor is strong and it's not terribly sweet. What helps is using it as an addition to a coffee or matcha, or just watering it down with some ice.

    so many toppings
    Debora K.

    I discovered this place from an Instagram Ad a couple years ago, followed them, & finally got to try them after so many years. It's so hard to find a cafe that has all these special & unique flavors where I live, so it was so fun picking what to order. We actually got 4 drinks to try even though it was just me & my sister. The store is located in a strip mall/plaza so parking can be a little full. It was smaller than I expected but they made such efficient use of their space as their market & cafe are located in the same space. Market had a lot of flavored rice paper & tamarind. It was fun to look through while waiting for our drinks. Service was very polite & efficient. Someone was cutting & prepping fresh fruit like jackfruit & green mangos for sale. Everything was so lively. A few doors down they have another store that has other items like fresh & dried fruit. Drinks: We got the soursop jasmine, mango passion fruit yogurt, mangosteen summer, & guava oolong. Yogurt was my favorite. It was flavor packed (yoplait type yogurt flavor & texture) & even if the ice melts, it would still be full of flavor. I was surprised to find that the passion fruit flavor was from popping boba. The teas were good. We took them all for family to try & the popular pick was the guava. Soursop being the least favorite as the jasmine/bitterness was a bit overpowering. I thought I'd try the toppings but actually decided not to add any (kinda overwhelmed by all the choices) but even without any toppings, the drinks were sufficient & fulfilling enough. We look forward to trying the other items when in the area!

    Victoria L.

    You go for the fun! Just do it. Kids will love all the cute fun shape and options for jelly/panna cotta toppings. The tea bases are really sweet and you can't adjust the sweetness as it's pre made but overall, fun spot. It's inside of this Vietnamese convenient store with easy parking

    Tropical Drink

    Small store with unique food products. Fast service with friendly staff! Ordered the tropical drink that came with fruit pieces (dragon fruit, mango, guava, and lychee). Good combo with fruity flavors.

    Betty G.

    So I see mixed reviews here for this Unu Cafe. I haven't tried anything else here other than the che Thai dessert. I have had it at many other dessert places in the area and I vote this to be the best! After getting the avocado coconut pudding dessert next door, per my sister's suggestion, we walked over here to get other types of dessert. What she was looking for was discontinued, according to the person that served us. So we went with the Thai dessert with extra durian and that was amazing! They did such a good job with that dessert and was generous with all the jello and fruit inside the cup. The dessert is $7 (twice as much as another popular dessert place that is about a block away, but the portion here is twice as big). And for $1 extra, you'll get one scoop of durian (my favorite!). One issue though, the lid was super tough to open. I couldn't open it and had to take a knife to cut across the top! Got to find out next time I'm there what's the trick to get it to open. :) Now I understand why this place is always crowded. A must return, for sure, since I eat a lot of these desserts and love flavored tea.

    6 topping corn milk
    Ann T.

    I'm not sure why this is a separate Yelp page, but I guess this may be for the drink order part in the back of the cafe versus the rest of the business which operates like a snack shop. There was a good amount of parking when we went, but I know that it can get quite fisted and busy, especially during peak hours. I went here 30 minutes before closing and there was a decent line of people in front and behind me to get some sweet dessert drinks. It's around $1+ for some of their jellies and toppings, so the best bet really is to get the build your own 6 topping drinks since it's included in the order and if you do the math, it comes out to less than paying an extra $6 on top of the base cost of the drink. I got their 6 topping corn milk as it's a more unique drink and I do love myself some corn. They sell this bottled in the little fridge section for like $7. Drink is quite sizeable and they WILL go over the top of the cup into the bubble lid if the toppings offset the level of liquid, so be careful not to spill! For toppings, I got the matcha and taro panna cotta, cheese pudding, Thai koi, oolong jasmine boba, and corn jelly. Just know that the syrups that are scooped in and absorbed from the toppings are going to eventually seep into your drink too, so it can start out sweet and get even sweeter. The drink is definitely more of a dessert reminiscent of Vietnamese dessert soup che, just an FYI. I think my only qualm and they unfortunately hit this pet peeve is when businesses give preferential treatment to family/friends at the inconvenience of actual paying customers. There was an entire family ahead of me, several people behind me but this dude (not with the family mind you), walked up to the toppings bar and asked one of the workers for a drink and SUPER FILLED it to the brim with honestly way more than 6 toppings. In Vietnamese (excuse my poor skills), he was calling the worker "teacher", flirting with him with terms of endearment, calling him cute and precious, laughing all the way and the worker just had the most neutral, unemotional face so honestly I can't tell if he was getting heckled and bullied by an unfortunate acquaintance or if it was normal. Regardless, it was massively annoying. If it wasn't someone I was close to do doing that to me while I'm at work, you bet I'm gonna go tell them to wait in line. Not bad overall but eugh.

    Persimmon matcha
    Hong N.

    Nicely decorated store packed with Vietnamese snacks, fruit, yogurt, and drinks. Unique drink toppings and drinks for decent pricing. Have been a customer for a few years and would recommend their yogurt drinks, like the strawberry yogurt drink. Nice yogurt flavor with fresh strawberries and popping boba. Went for their matcha tote promotion. The persimmon matcha had good persimmon and good matcha. But i would not personally drink them together. Persimmon was in big chunks and hard to drink with the matcha.

    Lots of toppings, different bobas and cute shaped jellos
    Dandan L.

    6 topping jasmine milk tea is my favorite, their new taro ball has real taro inside, and the water chestnut boba is yummy. I got a free drink as reward after going a few times. Friendly staffs. Just parking is difficult.

    6 toppings jasmine oat milk tea
    Anna N.

    i haven't tried their snacks yet but their drinks are delicious!! they keep coming out with new unique drinks that hit every time!!! the service are incredible! the baristas let you try samples and they always have recommendations based on what you like too. It's a very casual settings, no dine-in, only takeout but highly recommend!

    Coolers for sale
    Jessica N.

    A Vietnamese snack shop that now serves drinks in a terrible parking lot. No seating indoor nor outdoor so it's exclusively a to-go shop. While the line was long on a Sunday afternoon, the staff worked quickly. The mini coolers only allowed milk teas, no substitutions and 6 jellies. Osmanthus Oolong Milk Tea: a little too sweet but a decent tea flavor. Not really osmanthus but at least it was authentic tea. Jelly: lots of cute designs but the flavors were not very strong. Mostly everything tasted like coconut, pandan, or regular sugar jello. The banana jello and cheese jello did taste accurate though. Quinn's Bakery in Garden Grove makes tastier jellies and is a similar concept with indoor seating. Overall, if you enjoy Vietnamese snacks or prepared fruit, it's a convenient location but very crowded.

    Oolong longan cake
    Joanne K.

    SERVICE & AMBIANCE: A hole in the wall spot that is pretty tight but serves delicious drinks and desserts. When you walk in the right side of the cafe is a little market where you can buy snacks and desserts. The line was long but the service was quick and sweet. The cashier was so bright and cheerful to every customer. FOOD ^.^: You must try the milk tea boba with various toppings. Don't be scared to try all the different jellies they are all so good in the milk tea. Their fruit panna cotta was so delicious as well.

    My bucket with milk tea. We then choose to put what toppings we want to put in on our own time.

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