fave five #2: anna vu

featuring lunch menus

today’s fave five is from anna vu, the paris-based artist behind goodfoodcrapdrawing.

anna and i met in berlin while working in the kitchen together at one of my favorite restaurants (i’m not biased), chungking noodles. she’s since relocated to paris, and i’m absolutely not insanely jealous. enjoy perusing her list and see you next week!

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anna vu’s fave five

1. Physical calendars—For as long as I can remember, I've always used a Moleskine diary to write down my appointments, dates, notes, travel plans, anything! I use that diary for the whole year and I can't seem to switch to iCal or any digital version of a calendar. I enjoy writing things down, making lists, crossing things off and just the touch of paper and opening up the diary to check what's on.

2. Caramel brown Faber Castell connector pen—I have a favourite colour marker that I use probably the most out of my whole collection. I guess because it's the colour of perfectly cooked fried chicken (another favourite thing of mine).

3. Lunch menus—Since moving to Paris, I've had to watch my spending! But thank god it hasn't meant that I can't eat well. My new hack is to eat out at lunch. Most bistros and restaurants here have a special lunch menu at a fraction of the price of their dinner menu. For around 20€ you can get an entree, plat and dessert! My favourite bistro? Recoin!

4. Tiny Kitchen cooking videos—Watching food being made in tiny kitchen is just about the most cutest thing I've ever seen. I can't get enough of it. The whole kitchen set is miniature, even the food, I love it when they crack a quail egg in place of a chicken egg in some of the recipes, not quite to scale, but small enough.

5. Sydney Bird Club—I was just wearing my SBC cap (aka favourite hat) the other day and was reminded of the bird watching club my friends started after a drinking session at a pub. We thought it would be fun to have beers and go bird watching and even came up with the motto: "Birds N Beers". A few months later, they had designed a logo and actually launched it.