Huang, who joined the then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation in 1985, was a familiar face on local television for years before stepping away from acting in 2008. In recent years, he has also faced legal troubles, including serving time for an assault case in 2021 and being fined and disqualified from driving following a road traffic offence in 2024.
He continues to also run a plumbing business on the side, though these days he engages plumbers on an ad-hoc basis.
The idea of going into the seafood business took shape later, eventually evolving into both a wet market stall and, more recently, this hawker stall venture. Huang, who has long enjoyed cooking and eating crabs, says the move was also about doing something he genuinely likes in this stage of life.
He still gets acting offers, but he says he has little interest in returning. “People have been asking me to go back to acting for more than 10 years, but I don’t want to. I’m already old,” he says.
