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Take 5

Poh Ling Yeow's five sides

28 May 2026

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Chapter 1: Who is Poh Ling Yeow and what are her notable achievements?

0.031 - 9.721 Poh Ling Yeow

Have you ever regretted any of the risks you've taken?

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Chapter 2: How did Poh's love for music influence her life experiences?

10.662 - 13.544 Poh Ling Yeow

None. I don't think there's anything that I really regret.

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Chapter 3: What memories does the song 'How Deep Is Your Love' evoke for Poh?

14.165 - 17.508 Poh Ling Yeow

It's good, isn't it? Yeah, I can honestly say that.

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Chapter 4: What impact did Poh's childhood experiences have on her identity?

18.269 - 46.182 Poh Ling Yeow

And I have a lot of faith in vague feelings, like I think this is taking me somewhere good. Because it always has. Po Ling Yao has been a part of our lives for two decades. As a TV chef, a gourmet stall owner with jam face, a celebrity in the jungle and a cookbook author. Po is a painter and has even popped up as an actor. She describes herself as having a greed for life experience.

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46.883 - 49.166 Poh Ling Yeow

And I reckon it's what it makes her so creative.

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Chapter 5: How did Poh's upbringing shape her desire to fit in as a teenager?

49.386 - 70.208 Poh Ling Yeow

She's currently hosting and judging MasterChef. And today she's here to play DJ. Welcome to Take 5, Po. Hi. Thanks for having me, Zan. This is such an honour. I'm so excited that you are up for this because you strike me as someone who not just likes but needs to give everything a go, including being DJ. Is that right?

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70.249 - 80.251 Poh Ling Yeow

Do you love just throwing your hat into the ring in every possible opportunity? Totally. I really do. I'm really trying to suck the marrow out of life.

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Chapter 6: What does Poh reveal about her journey through religion and personal beliefs?

80.271 - 92.174 Poh Ling Yeow

So yes, DJ, yes. I'm saying yes. How big a part does music play in your life? Massively, actually. It always has. And I think for me, music is for dreaming.

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93.957 - 119.88 Poh Ling Yeow

It was always for me to imagine myself outside of the situation I was trapped in, you know. Even as a kid, I was like, oh, so yeah, I'll, you know, once you hear some of the songs that I've picked, yeah, I'll be painting very vivid pictures of all my, you know, desires, dreams and desires as a teenager and then, you know, and onwards.

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119.86 - 126.41 Poh Ling Yeow

Well, now I'm curious because, honestly, when you gave me this list of five, which we'll get to very shortly, I looked through them all.

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Chapter 7: How does being a judge on MasterChef influence Poh's perspective on creativity?

126.591 - 130.797 Poh Ling Yeow

I did some Googling. I've got no idea why you picked it. And they're really broad.

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Chapter 8: What future aspirations does Poh have as she reflects on her life?

130.857 - 146.903 Poh Ling Yeow

And it's just, you know, it's five sides, which is the theme I've given you. But I don't know what cuisine we're eating. We're all over the shop with these songs. We are all over the shop. Which I kind of love. You know, you've piqued my curiosity on the other side.

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147.704 - 171.687 Poh Ling Yeow

Yeah. I mean, like the thing is with music, like smells and all the things that are related to the senses, they're incredibly potent. Like they really transport you, you know. So I've picked songs that just really give me that, that just really take me back to a very, yeah, vivid moments in my life.

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171.953 - 193.607 Poh Ling Yeow

Well, you nailed it because that's what Take 5 is all about, sensory memory, those triggers that take us back, sometimes in good ways, sometimes in sad ways. Yeah. But always in a deeply threaded and woven way into your life. There's songs that attach themselves to memory and that's what Take 5 is all about. Your first choice is a beautiful ballad. It's from the Bee Gees.

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199.46 - 222.177 Unknown

Why did you pick How Deep Is Your Love?

223.051 - 253.605 Poh Ling Yeow

It's that whole era of filmmaking and that whole era was when I was little in Malaysia. My dad was really into music. He's like an ex-muso, so we always had lots of records and the Bee Gees was one of his favourites. I don't know, up to that point in Malaysia, I was a pretty lonesome kid. Left my own devices. Felt very beamed in from somewhere else, even though it was a place that I was born.

253.666 - 280.535 Poh Ling Yeow

Probably had some kind of learning difficulty at school, so felt like totally... Like I didn't fit anywhere and I was sort of always in some kind of cloud of confusion at school. And so, yeah, music and films were just somewhere I just loved the escapism. So for me that's what the songs were kind of all about.

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I know your eyes in the morning sun I feel you touch me in the fall me i wanna feel you in my arms again and you come to me on a summer breeze keep me warm in your love then you softly leave and it's me you need to share When they all should let us be We belong

336.805 - 358.9 Poh Ling Yeow

But I also have like a lot of memories when I should have been in bed. But the way our modular lounge sat was next to the hallway so I could scoot unseen. And while my dad watched all these movies, I remember watching like American Werewolf of London.

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