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Published 3 years agoThe New Limited-Edition Seafood Platters at Khanh Nguyen’s Sunda and Aru Are Things of Pure Beauty

Photo: Courtesy Of AruSunda’s appeared on Masterchef last month, while Aru’s is a supersized, woodfired version that includes torched bugs with Maggi hollandaise and grilled scampi with red-curry Marie Rose sauce. Time to (re)visit?

Words by Tomas Telegramma · Updated on 20 Jul 2022 · Published on 19 Jul 2022

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Like almost every dish Sunda and Aru chef and co-owner Khanh Nguyen magics up, the seafood plate he created for a Masterchef Pressure Test last month looked stop-you-in-your-tracks good. (And tricky to execute.)

Now – from Tuesday to Thursday until the end of July – it’s on the menu at Sunda, so you can experience it IRL. Expect Shark Bay scallops with native green curry, enoki mushroom, lemon myrtle and seaweed; WA scampi with Davidson’s plum and salted egg yolk; and storm clams with dark palm sugar, ginger flower and paperbark.

Over at its sibling restaurant, Aru, a supersized, touched-by-fire version will also be available throughout July. It includes a warm oyster with perilla, shallots and finger lime; torched honey bugs with Maggi hollandaise and finger lime; spanner crab with white pepper, crab mustard and sourdough; grilled scampi with red-curry Marie Rose sauce and blood lime; and smoked scallop with roasted-chicken butter, lemongrass and desert lime. It’s all cooked over the sultry restaurant’s blazing woodfire hearth.

Pre-order your seafood plate when booking online at Sunda or Aru throughout July. It’s $98 for two at Sunda (an addition to the current set-menu experience) and $160 for two at Aru, and 24 hours’ notice is required.

sunda.com.au aru.net.au

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Tomas Telegramma is a freelance food, drinks and culture writer.

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