July 20th 2019: Animal Adventures, Bolton

After picking cherries and blueberries at Tougas Farm in Northborough today, we decided to try their Blueberry Cider Donut

and Blueberry Donut Sundae (blueberry donut topped with scoop of blueberry ice cream, topped with blueberries, lemon frosting and whipped cream).

While in town, we decided to get groceries from Davidian's Farm Market.

Our next destination was Animal Adventures, a small zoo in the town of Bolton, where we decided to get a dessert stop at Colonial Candies, a candy store in an old mansion.

We got the Caramel Pecan (buttery flavorred ice cream with pecans and caramel sauce) ice cream,

which was really sweet despite being sugar-free, and a box of Dark Raspberry Fudge Truffles.

The zoo itself was pretty small and disorganized, and although I know their good intentions, definitely no one of the better zoos in the state. Not coming back again.

For lunch, we decided to check out Smack Noodle, a new ramen place in the town of Maynard. We got the Smack Bun (chashu pork in a fluffy bun with okonomi sauce),

the Tom Yum Ramen (chashu pork, marinated egg, scallions, beansprout and corn)

and the Crazy Noodle (flat rice noodle with egg, carrot, broccoli, red pepper, and onion in a hot basil sauce).

The sauce for the bun was a tad salty, while there was too little tom yum flavor and too much corn influence in the ramen. The last dish was not bad, but Americanized for sure. Not one of the better ramen places, in my opinion.