Hongkongers can get their first type of cultured meat, typically generally known as lab-grown meat, after an Australian food-tech start-up turned the first producer of such merchandise to start out out product sales throughout the metropolis. The Aubrey, a Japanese bar and restaurant on the Mandarin Oriental, launched two dishes that features Sydney-based Vow’s cultured Japanese quail on Tuesday.
Hong Kong is the second market on the planet the place the product, supplied beneath the mannequin title Solid, is obtainable, following its launch in Singapore in April, in step with George Peppou, co-founder and CEO of Vow.
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The two merchandise obtainable in Hong Kong are Solid Parfait and Solid Gras, which are produced from Japanese quail cells in a 79-day cultivation course of in Vow’s Sydney manufacturing facility. The company can produce spherical 20,000 litres of cells a 12 months and said it has shipped higher than 10,000 servings of its cultured meat so far.
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