GUILTY PLEASURE

KHANH NGUYEN

Chef-owner, Aru and Sunda, Melbourne

McDONALD’S DÉGUSTATION

I cooked my partner a Valentine’s dinner that revolved around Macca’s. I think she told her friends I was doing her a dégustation. At 4pm she said, “you going to start cooking?” And I was like, “don’t worry about it.” Then I went to Macca’s and ordered heaps of stuff: hash browns and nuggets – and I served that with scarlet prawns and a 200-gram tin of caviar. We had sour cream and chives and stuff, too – I mean, we’re not animals. We had burgers with huge lobes of foie gras in the middle and the main course was a lobster frites. I bought a massive lobster and served that with Macca’s fries and made sauces with the Macca’s sauces, like a honey mustard hollandaise with tarragon. I mixed