July 4th 2019: Eating Out in Boston

We decided to take advantage of the Independence Day holiday today to hang out in the Newbury Street area in Boston. Before that, while at the Target in Everett, we got free samples of Caramel Frappucino from the Starbucks there.

When we got to Boston, the stores were not open yet, so we stopped by two places that were next to each other, firstly Pressed Juicery, a juice bar which also does froyo.

We got the Strawberry (water, maple syrup, strawberries, dates, almonds, beet juice, vanilla extract) Freeze (plant based soft serve made from real fruits, nuts and vegetables)

which tasted more like the dates it contained than strawberry itself. Not a fan.

Next door was Pavement Coffeehouse, a cafe which has some interesting food choices,

where I got THE FIX (sausage, egg, smoked gouda, spicy pepper jam, on a biscuit).

which was actually pretty good for a breakfast sandwich.

For lunch, we decided to go to Hokkaido Ramen Santouka, which we had a good experience at before. This time around, we got the Toroniku Goma Miso Ramen (miso and sesame paste added to shio broth, topped with toroniku (pork cheek chashu), bamboo shoots, kikurage mushrooms and baby arugula), Three Yakumi (Assortment of seaweed sheets (nori), bamboo shoots and kikurage mushrooms) and Aji-Tama (soft-boiled egg),

and the Natto Gohan (rice bowl topped with natto (fermented soybeans).

The noodles and side dishes were excellent, although the bitter taste and gooey taste of the fermented beans means it was be the first and last time I am eating natto.

My cousin later bought us drinks from Up Tea Hub in Malden, getting the Kumquat Passion Lemon.

and the Fruit Overload.

Excellent drinks from this place as always.