Late-night diners making a meal of nocturnal nibbles

Growing numbers of young people are defying convention and eating long after dark. Wang Xiaoyu reports.

You mostly see them after 10 pm; crowds of late-night diners gathering and advancing slowly along sidewalks under the fluorescent city lights.

There are the bleary-eyed office workers emerging after overtime, the jabbering partygoers looking to replenish their energy, and the barbecue addicts happy to line up for two hours to get into hot spot restaurants.