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Seabass from Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong at its Jalan Besar counterIllustration
ClosingJalan Besar

Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong has closed, but hints at a comeback

Edited by Jamie   20 September 2026

Most restaurants buy from a fish farm. This one belonged to one, which is why the closure comes with a cliffhanger.

Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong closed its Hamilton Road room on 13 September after seven years, and the only thing to do now is keep following it: the farewell post on 5 August hinted at a new, undisclosed location, and no address, date or menu has been announced since. What made Scaled worth the trip still holds. It was founded in 2018 by Wong Jing Kai, who also heads Ah Hua Kelong, one of Singapore's rare working fish farms, so the fish on the plate were raised in local waters and served a short drive away. The farm is a separate business and carries on; only the dining room has gone.

It started on Haji Lane, in a unit since taken over by Habibi-San, before moving to 8 Hamilton Road in Jalan Besar in July 2020. The Jalan Besar room had an open kitchen, counter seats and a wall patterned to look like fish scales, which is about as on-brand as interior design gets.

The cooking was playful with local fish: a smoked seabass pate with sourdough, caramelised onions and pickled garlic shoots, a seabass kabayaki pitched as an alternative to unagi, a seafood glace risotto made with barley, curry mussels with fried mantou to mop up the sauce, and miso-cured saba. Back on Haji Lane the menu ran to clams tossed in sake and pan-seared seabass with pickled mussels and roasted pepper purée, and even dessert stayed on theme, with a pastel-blue panna cotta and sour plum-dusted meringue.

If you care where your seafood comes from, this was the rare restaurant that could name the exact farm. Follow @scaledbyahhuakelong for the next address; we don't know of a like-for-like replacement to send you to in the meantime.

Good to know Scaled closed on 13 September 2026 at 8 Hamilton Road, Jalan Besar. No new location announced; follow @scaledbyahhuakelong on Instagram for updates.

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Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong | 8 Hamilton Road, Singapore 209179

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