Andrew Yang Campaigns With Empanadas and Ramen

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 on 2021.02.24
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At this point, New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s love of bodegas is well documented, but he says that his passion for New York’s food goes much deeper…
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Shake Shack

Hamburger restaurant · Flatiron District

"We ordered Shake Shack for lunch. My standard order is a single hamburger with lettuce and tomato, no sauce. Got the bacon cheeseburger for one of my boys. My other son, for some reason, has been eating beef patties plain. It’s strange. Evelyn will have a normal ShackBurger with Shack sauce and cheese. We’ll get one shake — typically vanilla — that we split among the boys and ourselves, and then at least one order of fries."

Sushi on Jones

Temporarily Closed

"For dinner, we ordered Sushi on Jones. We’ve been ordering high quantities of food, truly. We went a little overboard a couple times, ordering a lot of Asian food. This night, we got avocado and cucumber maki, chicken katsu sando, edamame, a restaurant-week special of king salmon maki and tuna maki, toro nigiri, and tuna crispy rice."

Brodo

Takeout Restaurant · East Village

"We’ve been ordering a lot of Brodo, the bone broth, which Evelyn discovered. Brodo is a godsend. I love Brodo."

Tim Ho Wan

Permanently Closed

"We’ve also been ordering a lot from Tim Ho Wan in Hell’s Kitchen. Evelyn is a chicken-feet person. I go hard on the congee and the dumplings. My kids are partial to beef and pork buns and dumplings, whereas I tend to gravitate more toward seafood or chicken dumplings. Not that I’m above eating a good pork dumpling, but the kids are more attracted to them, and one of the rules in the family is, essentially, if one of my kids likes something, I shouldn’t eat it because it should be for them."

CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice

Bubble tea store · Upper West Side

"English muffin for breakfast again, and we also ordered from CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice on 72nd St. We got two winter melon teas and one smashed taro milk. Winter melon tea is decaffeinated, so it has essentially become the kids’ drink in our family because it’s a bit sweet — there’s no caffeine involved, it’s not really tea. When we go to certain bubble tea places, we order it for our kids. At this point, Evelyn and I sometimes drink it, too."

Little Alley

Shanghainese restaurant · Murray Hill

"For dinner, we ordered from Little Alley, a Chinese restaurant in Murray Hill, which I don’t think we’ve ever ordered from before. It was a giant feast again: Chinese sausage fried rice, scallion pancakes, oxtail soup, beef dumplings, pan-fried pork buns, potstickers, rice dumplings in rice wine, Shanghai rice cake and capsella flower."

Totto Ramen - Midtown East

Ramen Restaurant · Midtown East

"I was in the office, back campaigning. I had chicken paitan ramen from Totto Ramen for lunch. I had some golden oat Belvita cookies as a snack, too."

Empanada Mama

Latin American restaurant · Lower East Side

"This particular campaigning day was very Zoom-heavy, so it was a situation where I was just ordering whatever I wanted. I thought, Oh, I want ramen for lunch, and I’ll have Empanada Mama for dinner. Empanada Mama is great. I had arroz con pollo, and a banana-and-chocolate empanada for dessert."

MeMe

West Village

"For lunch, I had mediterranean food: chicken shawarma, pita bread, lamb shawarma, and hummus from Mémé."

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