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EPISODE · Sep 16, 2026 · 18 MIN

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

from Money Matters with Hongbin Jeong and Chua Tian Tian · host MONEY FM 89.3

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 stressful thing from your adult life, what would it be?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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