The restaurant's last day of operations was May 1.
SINGAPORE – Iconic seafood restaurant Ponggol Seafood, once famous for its chilli crab and mee goreng, shuttered its premises at The Punggol Settlement without fanfare on May 2, after more than five decades. May 1 was its last day of operations.
The restaurant had to move out in 1994 when the Government acquired the land. After operating at a few other locations over the next two decades, it returned to The Punggol Settlement in 2014.Mr Fabian Lim, 38, who ran a wine bistro next door to Ponggol Seafood, roped in his father Joseph Lim, 65, and nephew Edward Ho, 34, as investors to take over the restaurant.
Mr Fabian Lim says: “I thought it was a waste to let a restaurant with more than 50 years of history close. I saw potential in the business and wanted to revive its former glory.” The situation is a far cry from the restaurant’s heyday in the 1980s, when it provided valet parking for customers who drove.
The restaurant found its way back to Punggol, at the Marina Country Club, in 2006. But its spot at Punggol Marina, though a stone’s throw away from its original location, failed to draw the crowds.
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