Grub Street Diet: Andrew Yang

on 2021.09.16

9 Places

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, something he realized while he was recently quarantining after a COVID-19 diagnosis. But now that he has recovered, he’s gone back to ordering in lots of food, with this week serving like a greatest-hits of the city’s delivery options: sushi, dumplings, ramen, pizza and, of course, Shake Shack. As told to Jane Starr Drinkard --- For Andrew's full Grub Street diet, click the link below.

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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

Permanently Closed

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

Tim Ho Wan

Dim sum restaurant · East Village

"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."

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."

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