Singapore’s Soup Restaurant chain plans to open five extra outlets before October, including one at Changi Airport and two in Holland Village.

This expansion will boost the Soup Restaurant Group’s restaurants in Singapore to 19.

“Although the retail climate in Singapore remains challenging with high rents and labour costs, we feel confident the expansion will position us for the future as our new restaurants are all in new or refurbished malls with high traffic,” says co-founder/executive director Wong Chi Keong. “We have also taken the opportunity to introduce fresh dining concepts and add new dishes. For example, our new Soup Heritage Restaurant at Raffles Hotel, which opened last month, expanded its menu to include chilli crab and an extensive wine list.”

The Group this month opened a Cafe O at the new Raffles Holland V shopping mall in Holland Village. It is a halal coffee shop serving a mix of Chinese, Indian and Malay snacks, and local drinks and dishes.

Next to Cafe O the group will next month open a Soup Restaurant with its signature classic Samsui Ginger Chicken as well as home-style steamed dishes and desserts.

In October, the group will open the 332 sqm Teahouse in Changi Airport’s Terminal 1. This is a new concept offering dim sum dishes or Nanyang treats such as steamed carrot cake, Chinatown glutinous rice chives dumplings, wanton mee and congee.

The group will also be re-opening its Soup Restaurant in the renovated Compass One shopping mall in October.
Meanwhile, Wong Wei Teck has been appointed MD of Soup Restaurant Group, taking over from co-founder Mok Yip Peng, who retired at the end of April.