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    Unu Cafe

    4.1 (346 reviews)
    Open • 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Kathy N.

    The pudding topping and the jellos were not soft. They were very stiff and flour-y. You can tell it's not made the right way. It wasnt biting through pudding but more like biting through thick rice cake. The milk teas were not too bad. But the oat oolong milk tea had an overpowering taste of oat milk. You can barely taste the oolong. Im not sure if I will come visit again. Just not suitable for my tastes unfortunately. but the staff was very kind and patient when I was asking what all the flavors were for each topping. The place is small, but it is well air-conditioned. So when a whole bunch of people come in the line may look long, but it moves pretty fast.

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    Jin H.

    Holyyyy this is my favorite OC hidden gem. Literally the best huge $7 drinks I've ever tried. It's located inside a Vietnamese fruit/snack store so it's kind of hidden, but definitely definitely recommend everyone check them out! I've tried a lot of the menu here, and I would say the mango yogurt passion, corn milk, and ube taro drinks are my favorites. But everything's so good it's hard to choose. If you're craving che, the che thai here is good too and comes with so many toppings. Wintermelon tea is great if you're not feeling something milky. The portions are HUGEEE! It's a fruit store, so all the fruit inside the drinks are super fresh! I don't know what kind of mango they use for the mango yogurt drink, but I seriously need to inquire about it because it's unlike any mango I've ever tasted before- SO sweet, tropical, perfectly ripe, almost doesn't even taste like a mango because of how fragrant it is. They're out here dicing and boiling the ube fresh from scratch and you can definitely taste the difference.

    Helen N.

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

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    Julie H.

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

    Yesterday, I ordered a Da Lat jasmine milk tea and a honey kumquat tea for takeout. My milk tea was full of tea sediment--something that has never happened before when getting takeout from Únu. I couldn't drink it because the tea grit or sediment took up almost the entire cup. I live in LA, so it's a long way to go just to get Únu. I'm not sure if you changed the recipe or if you used the very last of the tea batch, resulting in so much sediment. It tastes like milk tea mixed with sand; I'm pregnant, so I can't drink it at all. So bad :(

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    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

    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.

    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.

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    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.

    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.

    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.

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    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!

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    I love this place it will be my new go to dessert place definitely a must try!! Especially the 3 color dessert

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