Nomi - Botany is an ice cream and dessert shop at 451B Ti Rakau Drive in Huntington Park, Auckland, holding a 4.6 rating from 260 Google reviews. Reviewers single out the bingsu and mochi — the biscoff bingsu, a special made for sharing, draws particular praise — along with teas whose flavour really comes through.
Bingsu, a Korean dessert now common in Auckland's dessert cafés, is made by shaving frozen milk into fine, snow-like flakes and piling on toppings; a single order is genuinely meant for two or more. Mochi — chewy rice dough wrapped around ice cream — rewards slow eating so the centre softens. A good dessert shop shows itself in restraint: sweetness kept in check so the fruit, tea and nut flavours stay distinct.
For a shared, not-too-sweet treat in the Botany end of Manukau City, Nomi - Botany on Ti Rakau Drive is an easy choice.