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| - Awesome flavors, but the toppings are very whatever. Their saving grace is that they have the cute waffle chips.
And wow! Pleasantly surprised with their coffee. I wasn't expecting much since it's not a dedicated cafe, but wow, their coffee is insanely strong (you can choose between regular and strong-- I chose strong). Bitter, of course, but wonderful. Finally, something to knock out the weakling brews nearby.
The only bubble tea made with fruit instead of a fruit and powder mix is lychee, which is yummy but I wish more of the drinks were made with 100% fruit. Contrary to another reviewer, I got a lot of tapioca IMO. I don't think there's a *great* place for bubble tea in Champaign, but Coco is good. You can ask to look at their ingredients list, and let me save you the surprise, it is crap. A huge amount of sugar too.
The only true downsides are that the interior design is bad and some kid thought it'd be funny to sneeze all over the machines and the staff did nothing about it. The design is not the worst I've seen... but it's pretty ugly and pretty obvious that they didn't hire a good designer. It's the floor... And the kinds of light fixtures they have... Especially that awful LED tree... And how the counter and the area behind the counter look. The place doesn't look put together. There's no flow-- only a big box with an ascetic layout and poor decor. You can see what the big end goal was... And it wasn't reached. When I think of how Coco looks, I think of the yellow "you tried" star meme. They tried. But the ambience doesn't detract from the food.
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