Clampdown on quest for soup dumplings by ‘Night Riding Army’

Viral craze: The trend began after four college students chronicled their ride to eat dumplings in the morning. — The Straits Times/ANN

POLICE in central China imposed traffic curbs to halt a viral craze in which thousands of university students borrowed shared bikes to ride overnight to the city of Kaifeng in search of breakfast.

The “Night Riding Army”, as some participants described it, clogged a highway on Friday, pictures posted on social media showed, a surge in turnout for a rolling flash mob that had been gathering riders for months.