Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong

Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong is a seafood restaurant in the Arcade at Capitol Kempinski, on Stamford Road in the Civic District. It is run by the team behind Ah Hua Kelong, a floating fish farm in Singapore waters. The menu is built around fish and shellfish from that farm.

Wong Jing Kai, one of the young team behind the farm, co-founded Scaled in 2018 with a chef partner. It calls itself the first restaurant in Singapore owned by a fish farmer to serve locally farmed seafood. Earlier homes included Haji Lane and Jalan Besar before the move to the Capitol.

The farm behind the food

Ah Hua Kelong has farm sites at Changi and Sembawang. It raises seabass, pearl grouper, golden pomfret and green-lipped mussels, and it also lands wild-caught seafood. Besides its own restaurant, the farm supplies several other Singapore kitchens.

The farm's motto is to harvest by sunrise and deliver by sunset, so it does not hold stock in chillers. The team wants more people in Singapore to pick fresh seafood grown close to home.

What to order

The cooking takes ideas from many kitchens, from Japanese and Italian to Cantonese and local. Dishes on the current menu include:

• Curry Mussels: the farm's mussels in a house-made curry, with fried mantou buns for dipping.
• K.F.C.: short for Kelong Fried Collar, a crisp fried fish collar.
• Smoked Seabass Pate: served with sourdough and caramelised onion.
• Canto Grouper and Salt Lemon Grouper: two takes on the farm's grouper.
• Prawn Dashi Aglio Olio: garlic pasta made with a Japanese-style stock.
• Seabass en Papillote: a whole seabass baked in paper, made for sharing.

Sides such as shimeji fries and an XO sauce potato dish round out the meal. To drink, there are draught beers, cider, kombucha, juices and wine.

Good to know before you go

• Bookings: reserve through Chope, or contact the restaurant by phone or email.
• Sharing: several dishes come in two sizes, so it is easy to order a few and share.
• Takeaway: most dishes can be taken away, but a few, such as the fried collar, are for dining in only.

The latest menu is on the Scaled website.

Nearby

The Arcade runs through the restored Capitol buildings, next to The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore. Crab lovers will find HolyCrab in the same arcade. For a museum visit before or after your meal, National Gallery Singapore and the National Museum of Singapore are a short walk away.

Browse more chilli crab and seafood restaurants, or see other restaurants in City Hall and Clarke Quay.