Taking over the space previously occupied by Angelina, SHÈ is the latest venture by the Gaia Group, who put their stamp on their modern take on Chinese cuisine for the first time. SHÈ's food menu will aim to focus on local nutritious ingredients to bring out a healthy lifestyle.
The bento lunch box menu draws a lot of inspiration from healthy home-style cooking, which is very difficult to find here in Central.
The rest of the food menu consists of sections like dim sum, rice, noodles, vegetables, main dish and snacks. Here's an extract of it in case you're interested.
Rose Gold Har Gao (香檳金蝦餃) ($48) - Starting things off were rose shrimp dumplings topped with gold leaf. These came in a beautiful champagne color.
This wasn't bad but no rose flavor as promised.
Siu Mai with caviar (魚子醬燒賣) ($48) - Equally tasty were the siu mai, which came with some added flavors from the umami-rich caviar.
Steamed beef and water chestnut balls (子薑牛肉球) ($46) - Some meat balls for our little guy. These were mixed with diced water chestnut so a bit more bite than your typical steamed beef balls.
Purple lava buns (流心紫蕃薯) ($48) - This was where it started to get a little more interesting. A couple of dim sum expertly designed by SHÈ's kitchen (that we don't see very often).
They called these buns but they were more than crispy pastries with runny sweet potato lava. Yum~ (But somehow this tasted more like a dessert).
Stuffed truffle balls with minced meat and mushrooms (珍菌黑松露球) ($46) - Truffle flavored salty fried dumplings (鹹水角) with fillings of minced pork and mushrooms.
I think I prefer the purple lava buns a lot more.
Stir-fried premium soy sauce noodles with bean sprouts (頭抽銀芽炒麵) ($128) - Of course we had to dip into the fried rice and noodle section of the menu. I loooove stir-fried noodles with premium soy sauce and this was really nicely done. Unlike most places in Hong Kong, the seasoning was light which was perfect.
SHÈ Signature fried rice (招牌炒飯) ($148) - Surprisingly good "wok hei" and there were so many different ingredients in there - crab roes, abalone (you read that right, abalone!), clams, squid, egg, kale and of course char siu. This one deserves an encore for sure.
I thought everyone was a little surprised with how well this lunch turned out to be. The fried rice and noodle were definitely the highlights of the meal while some of the dim sums (purple lava buns in particular) gave us some real pleasant surprise. And considering it's located at IFC, the prices were pretty reasonable.
Food Rating: 6/10
Price: $$$
Address: Portion A of Shop 3025-3026 & 3031-3066, Level 3, IFC Mall, 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong
Closest Metro Station: Hong Kong Station
Tel: +852 2110-0153
Website: www.gaiagroup.com.hk/restaurant/she/
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