Job Description

Ever sent a friend a 3-minute voice note about a bowl of bak chor mee Okay. Keep reading.

SETHLUI.com has been writing about food in Singapore since 2013. Hawker stalls, omakase counters, the new cafe with a one-hour Saturday queue. We also run a lifestyle section covering events, festivals product launches and news. We want interns who write for readers first. Search rankings come after.

Pick your lane:

Food: You'll eat. A lot. Then you'll tell people honestly whether it was worth it, including when it was mid.

Lifestyle: You'll cover events, festivals, how-to guides and the latest lifestyle trends and exciting changes our SG life.

Tell us which one when you apply. Want to try both Also can.

What you'll do

Visit stalls, restaurants and venues, take notes and photos, then turn them into articles that sound like a person wrote them
Write guides and listicles people actually use. That means checking every place is still open before it goes in
Pitch your own stories. New openings, closures, the hawker with a backstory nobody's written yet
Work through edits with our editors. Expect a lot of red ink early on. That's where you get better
Handle the SEO basics (titles, meta descriptions, internal links) without letting them flatten your writing
Help the social and video team with captions and scripts when needed

What we're looking for

You write like yourself. Your samples should sound like you, not a template
You have opinions about food or lifestyle stuff and can explain why
You're okay walking up to a shop owner, introducing yourself and asking questions
You fact-check by reflex. Wrong opening hours mean someone travels across the island for a closed shutter
Available for at least 3 months, 5 work days a week
Currently studying or recently graduated. Any field. Journalism or mass comm helps but isn't required

Bonus points

You speak Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Malay or Tamil. Very useful when uncle doesn't want to answer in English
You can take a decent phone photo of a plate of food
You've used WordPress
You drink alcohol

What you get