CHINESE RESTAURANT LETS YOU CUDDLE WITH BABY LIONS

Recently, there was a story about a hotel in China that would wake you up by bringing a red panda to your room. Now, a restaurant in Taiyuan, China, is facing backlash for offering a $150 four-course tea experience that includes hugging lion cubs. The Wanhui restaurant, which opened last month, sells 20 tickets a day to customers who want to lion cub experience. The service has raised serious concerns from animal welfare groups, as you might imagine. While the restaurant maintains that the cubs are under careful supervision by trained caretakers, critics argue that removing lion cubs from their mothers for this purpose puts both animals and humans at risk.
* Relax, it’s China. Those lions will be dinner long before any damage is done.
* If they aren’t calling the lion tea service “The Mane Course,” I’ll be highly disappointed.
* “Why does this tea taste like lion pee?” “Oh, no, sir, you didn’t order the lion cub experience.” “Well that’s even worse!”