Dinner by Heston Blumenthal proving so popular that by November 2011, some 900 were being sold per week and the restaurant was aiming to increase production to be able to supply up to 1200 a week. During the Christmas period, the Meat Fruit is decorated to appear like a plum rather than a mandarin to accord with the holiday season. The ice cream trolley holds a contraption created by Blumenthal and his team, and constructed from Corian by Mike Smith Studio at a cost of £25,000. Powered by a hand crank, it mixes custard and liquid nitrogen to create instant ice cream at the
Crab ice cream Crab ice cream Crab ice cream is a flavour of ice cream with crab. Invented by the Japanese and known to them as "Kani aisu", it is described as having a sweet taste. It is offered in some food establishments, particularly ice cream parlours, such as Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck restaurant, and the Venezuelan Coromoto, which offers the largest number of ice cream flavours in the world. Crab ice cream is a Japanese creation. The island of Hokkaido, Japan, is known for manufacturing crab ice cream. According to Heston Blumenthal's recipe for crab ice cream, it is made by