FRUIT STORIES
THE LOVE LANGUAGE OF CUT FRUIT
Wed, July 31st | 6:00 PM
5-Course Tasting Menu
Refreshing Summer Cocktail
Special gift from Thu Anh Nguyen
Additional Summer Cocktail Package: $29
FRUIT STORIES
THE LOVE LANGUAGE OF CUT FRUIT
When: WED, JULY 31, 6:00PM
Where: 944 W Broad St, Falls Church, VA 22046
Ticket: $95 per person
Highlights:
• 5-Course Tasting Menu• Summer Cocktail• Special Gift
Join us at NUE Elegantly Vietnamese this summer for a unique and heartfelt culinary journey as we present “Fruit Stories: The Love Language of Cut Fruit.”
This event explores Asian American identity and the rich traditions that shape our community. Our summer menu is a collaboration with educator, writer, and artist Thu Anh Nguyen, whose work focuses on equity, justice, and cultural practices.
During the tasting experience, you will savor a five-course menu, a refreshing summer cocktail, and ending the meal with a plate of exotic fruits cut by our founder’s mom. Artist Thu Nguyen will also engage us in storytelling and create a painting that each guest can take home as a special gift.
We look forward to sharing this beautiful experience with you!
Thu Anh Nguyen is a Vietnamese Floridian whose parents did not settle in the United States until they found land (and humidity!) that could grow the same fruits as they did in Vietnam. Every story she tells as an artist, educator, and writer is in part that immigration story, and therefore, Thu’s work centers around equity and justice.
She is a watercolor painter and calligrapher who is obsessed with flowers. She has been painting large-scale floral posters for social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name. All of her posters are hand-painted and bespoke, and she loves talking to people about their favorite colors and blooms, as well as the historical and metaphorical meanings of flowers. Her most recent floral murals capture the voices of AANHPI women at Gallery Y in D.C., and the Asian American community at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth, TX.
Thu Anh is also a published poet whose poetry explores the intersections and tensions between her Vietnamese and American identities. Her writing has been published in Literacy Today, the Southern Humanities Review, the Cider Press Review, and the Crab Orchard Review. When she isn’t painting or writing, you can find her in someone else’s garden, nose in a book, snack in hand. You can find examples of all of her work on Thuanhnguyen.com.