Kevin D.
Yelp
A solid hot pot with good flavor but lacking depth. Not bad if you never had a hot pot.
I was in the area after a very frigid morning. Needed some soup to warm us up, so we opted to go to Nummy's after some quick yelp searching.
The place is easy enough to find, lots of signage and right on the corner of a small shopping area. When I came in, there was only two people in the shop. Cashier and cook, who were both working on orders when I came in. After a 5 minute wait we managed to get menus and after another 5 minutes the server came by to take our order.
We didn't have a consensus on what toppings we wanted, so we opted for the mega bowl which included them all. We also got some pork steamed buns, just to give them a try.
Food took a little while to get to us, about 20 minutes or so to start getting food over to us. But we took pictures and dug in.
The steam buns were a little underwhelming. They didn't have enough filling to offset the amount of bread in the bun. The filling had a decent spicy pork flavor, but there wasn't enough to get a bite of filling with each bite of the bun. Which ended up leading to a lot of pure bread bites
The mega bowl we ordered medium, and it actually had a reasonable amount of spice to it. Not enough to make it inedible, but enough to add a zing to the dish. As a man who enjoys his spice, this was just the right amount for rapid consumption.
The mega bowl didn't have beef or chicken, which was a disappointment. it did have a small amount of each add-in for the bowl, so most of it was there. However, for the price I did feel like we were short changed on what we did end up getting.
The highlights for the soup, the broth had a good flavor but needed some salt to help combat the hot oil put into the dish. The mini sausages were tasty, and the egg was hard boiled in soy sauce, which imparted a salty soy flavor into the egg.
Not a fan of wood ear mushrooms, nor fish balls. the texture for both was very firm and spongy but didn't pick up any of the flavors of the broth. there wasn't a lot of noodles in this dish either, which if you were to get extra noodles then I would expect a little more.
Overall, it's a solid hot pot and there was some components that were good. but the price, the portion, and the lack of staffing does drive the score down a little bit. it's not bad, but I did have a little bit of a lacking experience.