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Restaurant in China offers lion cub cuddles alongside afternoon tea

# Teatime revels in China now include hugs with lion cubs in a four-course afternoon set offered by a restaurant in the north. Customers cradled the lion cubs as if they were babies in pictures and video clips posted online on Chinese chat platforms. The Wanhui restaurant, which opened in June, sells about 20 tickets a day to customers looking to snuggle with the animals as part of a set menu costing about two-thousand-700-rand. Online comments are mostly critical, saying the venture was dangerous and not good for the animals.