A $35 afternoon tea set served at the British pavilion at the Osaka Expo has left Japanese social media aghast at its perfunctory paper cups, sending Britain's embassy into damage-control mode.
"We have improved our service after some feedback saying we have failed to live up to expectations," a British Embassy official in Tokyo said in a video posted to X on Thursday.
"Afternoon tea is an important part of our tradition that symbolizes British culture," she said in Japanese.
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