Malaysian seafood noodle restaurant Hai Kah Lang to open first Singapore branch

Famed Malaysian seafood noodle restaurant Hai Kah Lang is opening its first Singapore branch at Funan mall in September.

This will be the brand's first overseas outlet, according to CapitaLand's website. The move was also announced by the restaurant on its social media accounts. However, neither Hai Kah Lang nor CapitaLand specified the opening date.

Its first outlet in the Taman Cheras neighbourhood in Kuala Lumpur was awarded the Michelin Bib Gourmand award for three consecutive years, from 2023 to 2025.

The Michelin Bib Gourmand award is given to restaurants which offer the best "value for money", according to a report by the Michelin Guide.

The Michelin Guide added that awardees have a "simpler style of cooking, which is recognisable and easy-to-eat" and easy on the wallet with their "reasonable prices".

The move to Singapore follows on the heels of Hai Kah Lang's expansion from KL to Johor Bahru in 2023.

The debut of the Singapore outlet will take the tally of new branches opened in 2025 to four, with three of them in KL. In August, Hai Kah Lang opened its most recent outlet at Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 2.

Hai Kah Lang has eight outlets across Malaysia. Its first outlet opened in 2022.

The restaurant offers a variety of seafood dishes, including prawn noodles, crab meat porridge and curry fish head. It also serves snacks such as Teo Chew oyster omelettes, stir fried fish lips and fried soft shell crab.

One dish that will leave you clam-ouring for more is the mixed seafood noodle/porridge according to a review on food and lifestyle publication Sethlui.com

The author of the review raves: "This delightful ensemble boasts crab, clams, fish, squid, shrimp and laver seaweed, all bathed in a flavourful fish bone broth infused with the aromatic Huadiao wine."

A review on Malaysian news outlet The Malay Mail described the fried prawn paste fish slices as "umami bombs" and wished readers luck in "snaring the last piece". The Straits Times has contacted CapitaLand and Hai Kah Lang for more information.