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
Green tea ice cream gradually helped people learn about green tea, resulting in green tea ice cream becoming a typical dessert. In those days, there were two different kinds of green tea ice cream served at restaurants. One was made by mixing dissolved matcha powder into vanilla ice cream in a restaurant’s kitchen, while the other was made by a local ice cream manufacturer who did not know the proper way to make the dessert. In the first method, ice cream had to be melted once and refrozen when they mixed in the dissolved matcha powder, resulting in the ice cream having an undesired