‘I’m an ordinary person. I can’t be more ordinary’: Ex-actor Huang Yiliang now a fishmonger, hawker

SINGAPORE – By 7am, six days a week, former actor Huang Yiliang is at MacPherson Market and Food Centre, scaling and cleaning fish at his wet market stall. At 11am, he walks to Circuit Road Hawker Centre, about 400m away. There, he mans the stove at his new stall Old Fisherman, stir-frying crab dishes and steaming seafood for the lunch crowd up to 2pm. That is followed by a short nap at home before he resumes food preparation for the dinner crowd from 5 to 8pm. In a plot twist, the 64-year-old, who originally intended to import and distribute crabs, has become a fishmonger and hawker in his third act. Former actor Huang Yiliang has opened a hawker stall selling seafood dishes, including crab. ST PHOTO: HEDY KHOO He was a popular face on local television. He joined Mediacorp (then known as Singapore Broadcasting Corporation) in 1985 as a 24-year-old, where he went on to win Best Supporting Actor at the annual Star Awards three times – in 2002, 2003 and 2006. After 23 years with t ...