{"id":30844,"date":"2025-11-06T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30844\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:47:07","slug":"zohran-mamdani-and-aocs-momo-lunch-in-queens-wins-the-internet-on-his-first-day-as-nyc-mayor-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30844\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani and AOC\u2019s momo lunch in Queens wins the internet on his first day as NYC mayor-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s packed first day as New York City&#8217;s mayor-elect includes a power lunch meeting with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) over South Asian food in Queens that is receiving a lot of love from netizens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani shared photos from his power lunch with Representative AOC at Laliguras Bistro in Jackson Heights, Queens. The spread, featuring momo, tingmo, chilli chicken, aloo dum, and a cup of chai to top it off, is winning hearts across South Asian communities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A busy first day as your Mayor-elect: early morning interviews, transition announcements and meetings. More to say on all of it tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>But a highlight was lunch with my Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"anchorLink\" target=\"_blank\">@AOC<\/a> at Laliguras Bistro in Jackson Heights. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vKWpNyrI09\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"anchorLink\">pic.twitter.com\/vKWpNyrI09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZohranKMamdani\/status\/1986233462269890879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"anchorLink\" target=\"_blank\">November 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meet also feels on-brand for Mamdani, whose election campaign frequently went viral for its nods to South Asian pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A busy first day as your Mayor-elect: early morning interviews, transition announcements and meetings. More to say on all of it tomorrow,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani&#8217;s victory has become a rare light of hope in US politics, especially for immigrant communities, which have been the target of US President Donald Trump and his policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani secured a historic win at the polls on Wednesday (November 5) after defeating Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and political heavyweight former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Edited by : Priyanka Deshpande)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s packed first day as New York City&#8217;s mayor-elect includes a power lunch meeting with Congresswoman Alexandria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[18808,9,24,18810,63,122,124,123,18809,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-30844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-aoc-mamdani-lunch-in-queens","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-yorks-new-mayor","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-zohran-in-queens","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}