Twitter slams 'The Great British Bake Off' for mixing Asian cultures on Japanese Week

Great British Bake Off has been called out for casually showing racism towards East Asian culture. In latest episode, contestants were tasked with making some items from Japanese cuisines in episode called Japanese Week to celebrate culture and cuisine from country. However, several contestants on reality show pushed aunticity of Japanese food aside and mixed it with Chinese, Indian and American fillings. This offended many netizens, who took to social media to express ir displeasure about ‘borderline racism’ on international reality show.

Great British Bake Off faces flak from netizens

Great British Bake Off is currently running its 11th season and in 6th episode, show h Japanese Week. contestants were asked to make bao buns, Kawaii cakes and matcha mille-feuille. Even though contestants were allowed to have fillings of ir choice, people on social media were displeased that several contestants chose fillings which broke aunticity of Japanese food items and me it to ‘generalised Asian food’ list.

Numerous people flooded Twitter with tweets about how “cringy” it was to watch several contestants mixing two cultures during Japanese Week. A number of or people complained about how igrant programme was towards Japanese cuisines. Several contestants were heard saying on camera during show that ir dish is “more Chinese inspired than Japanese”.

While some contestants filled buns with Chinese fillings, an amateur baker styled her dish like Pandas, which originate from central China. Kawaii cakes are inspired by “cute” aspects of Japanese culture and cakes are decorated depicting Japanese cultural elements, however, y are t an established part of Japanese cuisine. Check out some of tweets below.

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Some netizens support  Great British Bake Off's Japanese Week episode

While re was a heavy backlash, re were several netizens who supported choices of contestants. Some netizens wrote on Twitter that one must enjoy show and that t everything is racism. Check out some of comments below.

• Japanese Hirata buns are called bao in China and y have pork chashu, tempura or kara chicken.
• Nikuman is a kind of chuka man and is Japanese name for Chinese baozi and is also kwn as pork buns in English.

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