Great British Bake Off sparks backlash over offensive Japanese Week - digitalspy.com

Great British Bake Off viewers have criticised the show following a culturally insensitive approach to Japanese Week.

Completely ignored the Chinese roots of Japanese steamed buns and the technical is French but they deem it Japanese because they threw matcha in it.

"Would've preferred seeing the contestants make shokupan or something like that rather than Chinese buns, just call it Asian week since it's all the same to people #gbbo," another said.

Chinese buns and pronouncing 98% of Japanese words wrong?" a third tweeted.

"Not only was this insulting to us Japanese and our culture, you also likely insulted the Chinese, as well as the intelligence of a great many viewers of #gbbo who all know the difference between the two, and that Baos (Steamed Buns) are Chinese.".

Another Twitter user, who was similarly disappointed by the show's approach to Japanese Week, posted a thread of "Japanese things they could have actually baked on #GBBO (instead of Chinese steamed buns)".

So disappointed with Japanese week on #bakeoff 😩 Here's a list of Japanese things they could have actually baked on #GBBO (instead of Chinese steamed buns):.