Eat by Ear is the world's first docu-dramedy podcast about food in Singapore. Each episode blends hawker-chefs’ secrets and stories, in their own voices, with a tender narrative stream of culinary consciousness. This sonic feast serves up the roaring stir-fry flame, the hissing steam, the bubbling broth interwoven with the stacking of melamine plates, the clinking of coffee spoons, and the delightful rojak of everyday languages. It’s the Singapore you think you know but have never heard.
If food is your love language, Eat by Ear is your poetry. If you like the Japanese food shows The Solitary Gourmet and Midnight Diner or Stephen Chow’s God of Cookery, you have found your next must-listen. Binge or savour, but heed our warning: do not consume on an empty stomach!
This podcast is a love letter to Singapore from award-winning writer-director-producer Woo Yen Yen, whose work has been featured on Netflix, HBO, and the BBC, and international award-winning sound designer Lim Tingli, whose works have screened at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Sundance.
Host-Writer-Producer: Woo Yen Yen
Sound designer: Lim Tingli
Co-producer: Terence Lau
Designer and photographer: Timothy Wee
Choral composer and singer: Yakuza Baby
Production and research assistant: Chua Chia Hui
Studio sound engineer: Steven Cheong
Theme Music Composer: Joe Ng
Copywriter: Anisha Ralhan
Web builder: Amanda Chan
Advisors: KF Seetoh and Patrick Cox
Special thanks to LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore for their support in the production of season one.
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Chef Hoy Yong rose from washing dishes to mastering them. Trained by Singapore’s culinary maestro and Red Star Restaurant co-founder, Masterchef Tham Yew Kai, Chef Hoy Yong’s appetite for innovation has earned him a devout following of his Cantonese dishes at his tze char stall in Clementi. In this episode of Eat by Ear , he and award-winning filmmaker Woo Yen Yen demystify the sublime art of cooking Cantonese food. Hint: it’s a lot to do with pouring your heart and tears. This plate of dramedy ...
Aug 11, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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