How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Poppy Liu

With a toddler, a Shih Tzu and respective chickens, histrion Poppy Liu has a afloat house.

“I’m raising truthful galore beings,” said the “Hacks” star, who precocious appeared successful the Netflix play bid “No Good Deed” and volition prima alongside Tessa Thompson successful the streamer’s upcoming bid “His and Hers.”

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“I emotion having chickens due to the fact that it feels grounding to devour eggs from my ain backyard,” she explained. “I was truly devastated erstwhile 2 of them got picked disconnected by coyotes. I was acrophobic astir the intelligence wellness of the 3rd one. It’s like, ‘At this point, you’re my pet. I’m acrophobic that you person depression.’”

When we speak, the hyper-organized, slug journal-loving Liu has already planned her cleanable Sunday down to the hour. “I enactment unneurotic a schedule,” she prefaced. “Normally I mightiness bash this implicit the people of 2 days, but I’m going to bash it each successful 1 precise ambitious Sunday.”

In a departure from galore of the different caller parents interviewed for this column, Liu chose to ideate a cleanable Sunday with “robust kid care” that she would walk mostly alone. “My time would look truly antithetic if it was a afloat time with my toddler,” she said. “It would beryllium a batch of the parks that we spell to, the babe gym, Descanso Gardens and worldly similar that. But I really decided to bash my solo time due to the fact that I consciousness truly backstage astir my toddler, and I privation to sphere each the parks we spell to. I truly similar that we tin beryllium there, conscionable the 2 of us, benignant of incognito.”

On the docket for Liu’s cleanable solo Sunday? “Exciting” fruit, acupuncture and aggregate saccharine drinks.

This interrogation has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

8:30 a.m.: Wake up with baby

Right now, my babe is going done a spot of slumber regression due to the fact that I was retired of municipality for a small bit. So present that I’m back, they’re very, precise clingy, which I deliberation is truthful cute, and truthful we’ve been co-sleeping. They emotion to aftermath up and past crook to look astatine maine and conscionable clasp my look successful their small hands and go, “Mama.” You tin spot the alleviation erstwhile they aftermath up; there’s a infinitesimal of disorientation and past they crook astir and spot maine and they’re like, “Ah.” We conscionable laic connected the pillow, conscionable smiling [at each other].

10 a.m.: Window store portion enjoying a caller smoothie

On Figueroa Street successful Highland Park there’s a smoothie basal called Tropical Juice LA wherever I emotion to spell to get a greenish foodstuff oregon immoderate benignant of smoothie. And due to the fact that Figueroa has a ton of cute small shops connected it, I conscionable get my small foodstuff and locomotion around. I’m often going to Wasteland oregon the Bearded Beagle to spell thrifting. Kitchen Mouse is there, which is bully for a coffee, meal and to conscionable a friend. Cookbook has a bully vino selection, and there’s a florist close adjacent to Tropical Juice LA for erstwhile I get caller flowers. It’s a bully walking street.

10:30 a.m.: Personal training

I past spell to spot my idiosyncratic trainer astatine South Pas Fitness. It’s a 10-minute thrust from the foodstuff place. Her sanction is Nailah Jamerson; she’s amazing. I’ve been seeing her for a twelvemonth now. Usually we conscionable bash weights, and if I spot her doubly successful a week, I’ll bash an upper-body time and a lower-body day. When she asked maine what my goals are, I was like, “I privation to beryllium toned, but besides I privation a immense butt. Like fattest ass, tiniest waist.”

11:30 a.m.: Acupuncture recovery

Right after, I spot my acupuncturist, due to the fact that I’ve trained, my muscles are sore and present I privation to unbend them. My acupuncturist, who I love, her sanction is Sau Sum and she’s astatine Dear Song Acupuncture successful Pasadena. She’s specified an empath and precise intuitive too.

I consciousness similar she’s precise overmuch a healer successful the existent sense. Every azygous clip she checks each the things: looks astatine my tongue, checks my pulse, looks astatine my complexion — each of it — but besides mentally and emotionally [checks] wherever I’m astatine too. We’ll person two-hour-long sessions sometimes. She’ll bash acupuncture, cupping, moxa — which is the cigar [therapy incorporating burning mugwort] implicit acupressure points. One week I missed [talk] therapy and she ended up being my therapist. I was talking to her and ended up crying a bunch. And I was like, “Oh, this is what I needed successful therapy.”

1 p.m.: Quick wound astatine Amara Café

Right adjacent to my acupuncturist’s spot successful Pasadena is this really, truly yummy Venezuelan spot called Amara Café. They’re a mom-and-pop shop. I didn’t cognize what Venezuelan nutrient was earlier [I started going here], but it’s awesome. It’s hearty but besides benignant of snack-ish, and there’s a batch of “stuff wrong of a happening that you tin hold,” which I love. I don’t adjacent cognize the names of the dishes, but they person a batch of pictures determination truthful you tin beryllium like, “that looks awesome.” And they besides person coffee. I similar my java milky and saccharine similar a dessert. If I’m feeling spicy, I’ll get a latte, ever with a nondairy milk. I privation it to sensation similar candy, similar a melted cocoa bar.

3 p.m.: Trek to Koreatown for caller fruit

On this peculiar Sunday, I’m truly craving caller fruit, truthful I marque a small spot of a trek to K-town to spell to Co Co Fruit, which is this mom-and-pop effect store with the yummiest breathtaking fruit: hairy lychee, longan. I don’t emotion eating dragon fruit, but I find it to beryllium beautiful. Sometimes my ma volition get sweetener cane. The bulk of Chinese oregon Asian fruits, there’s conscionable a nostalgia astir them for me, and they’re ever absorbing and strangely shaped.

7 p.m.: Dinner astatine Levant Bistro

After each of this, I spell to Levant Bistro + Bake Shop successful Silver Lake, which is astonishing Lebanese nutrient that’s besides gluten-free. (I’m gluten-intolerant and I get eczema if I devour gluten.) I similar to person a truly leisurely dinner. Like I emotion a Spanish dinner, if you will, which conscionable goes into the night. I don’t fume cigarettes, but 1 wherever you’re smoking a proverbial cigaret and the vino is flowing. A leisurely meal is simply a minimum hr and a half, 2 hours.

9 p.m.: Movie night

After this, I spell to the AMC Atlantic Times Square to spot a movie. It’s successful a promenade with a elephantine Daiso, truthful portion I’m there, I’ll spell to Daiso for things that I request astatine location and small amusive stuff. Daiso is similar a Japanese dollar store, but that is not doing it justice. You tin get everything that you request there, and everything’s precise cute. Daiso is wherever I’m getting the sweet-and-sour Hi-Chews that I’m sneaking into the movies.

And past arsenic I’m waiting for my movie to start, I spell crossed the thoroughfare to Huge Tree, which is simply a Taiwanese spot, for a small snack. And past I besides spell down the thoroughfare to Half and Half for a bubble tea. I similar to get their kumquat tea, due to the fact that I similar that it’s not ace sweet. I get boba writer jelly and aloe vera successful it, 50% sweet, regular ice. I emotion each the small chewy things successful there.

11:30 p.m.: Couch rotting earlier bed

After I get home, I’m sofa rotting connected TikTok for an hr arsenic my upwind down. Sometimes, connected a bully day, I’ll work a small spot earlier bed, but it’s conscionable truthful overmuch much amusive to spell connected TikTok. Recently I got truly into watching this idiosyncratic who finds furnishings connected the thoroughfare and refurbishes it. Or Nate the hoof guy, who cleans the hooves of cows and horses. It could beryllium bully for my tense strategy actually, due to the fact that I’m watching ASMR.