What's Trending: Eat your homework? China’s bizarre new stress-relief trend

Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong · Sep 16, 2026 · 18m

What if the best way to deal with school stress was to literally eat your homework? Students in China are going viral for buying edible workbooks made from rice paper, with the snacks designed to look like textbooks, dictionaries, certificates and even scholarship cards. On What's Trending, Hongbin Jeong, Nadiah Koh and Nazirul Asrar look into why this bizarre trend has taken off, whether it could catch on in Singapore, and what piece of homework they would have happily eaten back in school. And because homework doesn't exactly disappear when you grow up, we also ask: if you could eat one…