Kevin L.
Yelp
It ain't bad at all but on the pricey side.
Now it's quite a different dining experience if you have to rush through door-in-door-out in 45 minutes (about to watch Avengers 2 later that night!). The staff were a bit oblivious about whether or not if they even had tables available for walk-in, but the manager played smart and offered a table to us anyway.
Read through the food/drink menu definitely took us some time. The names of the cocktails were amazing, if you could read both Chinese and English, they guaranteed a few giggles. But again, you had to read the fine prints to really know if you were ordering a gin or a whisky or a traditional Chinese liquor mix (coz there's no way to tell from the name.)
The names of the dishes were the same, but a bit of a hit or miss. Just like most of the ideas G.O.D. (the lifestyle store that owns Sohofama), about 75% would give you a good giggle, and the rest of the 25% would be either over the top, confusing, actual typo, or a mix of the above. Say while they were focusing on serving organic food, I was not sure if adding "organic" (有機) in front of most of the items were a genuine intention, or more a tongue-in-cheek.
Anyway, we ordered the drinks first, and then ordered ORGANIC xiao lung bao, black truffle spring rolls, Chinese creamed cabbage (奶油津白), and a XO sauce scallop fried rice.
XLB were good, not my top 3, but definitely more decent than I expected in a "modern Chinese fusion" restaurant. black truffle spring rolls and Chinese creamed cabbage were both well made, but I found it hard to justify the price. Fried rice were a bit too dry, and as the traditional wisdom would tell you, you needed rice cooked overnight to make good fried rice, and apparently no actual restaurant would do it that way.
But at least, food arrived in timely manner and at least one of the staff (+ the manager) did realize we were in a hurry. The 4 stars were given to the expedited service, the above average + above expectation food, but not for the price, nor the cheeky menu.