La Ka Viet

So recently replacing a Hui Lau Shan location in Westminster that its temporary sign is comparatively hard to read, La Ka Viet is a new coffee, tea, and shaved ice cafe specializing in Vietnamese-style drinks, puddings, and snacks, as well as Japanese kakigori. It’s notably in the same plaza with Quan Vy Da and Banh Cuon Tay Ho.

What caught our attention at La Ka Viet were the matcha drinks, which are quickly earning a reputation for having strong matcha flavor – across the Matcha Einspanner and Matcha Foam Coffee we ordered, there was enough actual green tea flavor to thrill us as matcha fans, though each of the drinks had so much ice that we were left sipping egg foam and thick, sweet cream with matcha powder well after finishing the liquid below them.