Interface design in Foodspotting - ios

On the app Foodspotting, you have a scrolling view that has two elements:
1) An image.
2) Some information below it.
Like this:
When you start scrolling down, the behaviour is not natural of a UITableView, or at least I am not understanding it. The below view start's going up and overlapping the UIImageView above it:
And finally:
What I have tried:
1) Using the first four cells without content and invisible and finally an UIImageView as subView of the UITableView
2) The same as above but using the UIImageView as subView of the root view and below the UITableView.
3) Mixing the UITableView and a UIScrollView with an UIImageView inside the UIScrollView.
So my question, how was this achieved?
Edit 1.0
If someone want to try, you can check the project here.

Looks to me like a UIViewController with a UIImageView on the bottom.
Then a UITableView on top of that (grouped table view) with a transparent background.
The header height is then set to almost the height of the entire view. With a button (or whatever that is) near the bottom of the header.
You could access the scrollView:didScroll to adjust the position of the UIImageView in the background (it looks like the center point of the image is always half way down the visible part of the header.
bgImageView.center = CGPointMake(0, (bgImageView.frame.size.height - scrollView.offset.y) * 0.5);
or something like that.
Obviously the image view would not move any further down than the top so you'd have to catch that somehow.

Looks like an image view is the background view of the table (so it won't scroll), a large transparent view as the table header (possibly with that first button in it, or that could be a transparent cell) then opaque cells for the remaining content.
And that risotto is far too wet. 0 stars, more like rice soup.

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