Hongkongers can get their first taste of cultured meat, also known as lab-grown meat, after an Australian food-tech start-up became the first producer of such products to start sales in the city. The Aubrey, a Japanese bar and restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental, introduced two dishes featuring Sydney-based Vow’s cultured Japanese quail on Tuesday.

Hong Kong is the second market in the world where the product, sold under the brand name Forged, is available, following its launch in Singapore in April, according to George Peppou, co-founder and CEO of Vow.

The two products available in Hong Kong are Forged Parfait and Forged Gras, which are produced from Japanese quail cells in a 79-day cultivation process in Vow’s Sydney production facility. The company can produce around 20,000 litres of cells a year and said it has shipped more than 10,000 servings of its cultured meat to date.

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