Unu Cafe

From the outside, where it blends into the same crowded Westminster plaza hosting long-time central Vietnamese restaurant Quan Vy Da and coffee shop La Ka Viet, you’d never know that Unu Cafe was serving some of Orange County’s most complex boba drinks and Vietnamese desserts. Apart from an atypically busy rear counter, the space looks more like a convenience store than a cafe, with no seating or tables. But there’s magic happening at that counter.

Walk up to place an order and you’ll notice that there’s a stack of mini cooler-sized drink containers, which can be loaded with milk teas and treats for around $15, as well as a collection of fruit teas, milk teas, cheese foam teas, and yogurt desserts that hover in the $6-7 range before customizations. Take another couple of steps and you’ll see a large collection of pre-made jellies, frequently restocked from silicone molds, each sold for $1-2 per scoop or piece. Unu calls itself “the boba shop with the most topping in OC,” and it’s certainly correct: There are nearly 30 different options including boba variants, which here are the least interesting choices, by far.