Through the magazine, I knew about Hainan Shaoye and the chef is a great chef from Singapore. Also, from my friends, i gotta know that the owner of this restaurant is a very young man. I was so interested as there arnt much restaurant that serves good Hainan chicken rice. So I went there to give a try.

However, the food didnt come out with what I expected. The chicken rice is so wet when it should be dry with tasty chicken oil.

Besides, the chicken there has nothing to compare the one in City Garden Hotel Cafe and Marina Club Cafe. The chicken lost its flavour and the meat and texture isnt as soft and smooth.

As this restaurant mainly sell Hainan Chicken Rice, when they cant even get their signature dish done nicely, how would this restaurant make anymore good food? I honestly doubt that.

This isn't a good experience of Hainan chicken rice. This is not recommended.

Like I said earlier, how much I was disappointed at Shanghai Fraternity Association 上海總會because of its poor performance. As I heard the rumor that the top chef of Shanghai Fraternity Association joined this newly opened restaurant in Causeway Bay. A person like me who likes to eat, I definitely went and tried out the food at this Zhi Wei Shanghai Restaurant 知味舍.
I m a person who have fully passion on food. I look for the best and hopefully my feedback would give all of you some good suggestions when you are at this website looking for good food.
As Last Sunday I tried a poorly performed Shanghai Cuisine at Shanghai Fraternity Association, I swear I must tried out some good Shanghai Cuisine, and so on last Wednesday I came to知味舍. I gotta say, this is highly recommended, they didn’t disappoint me and however I think I love the food there now.
四喜烤麩
This is a Shanghai cold dish. It smells good and the taste is not too wet or too soft which is just right. As I know this dish needs a lot of skills, I would say, they nicely performed.
怪味雞
This may not be my favorite dish because I don’t like food with peanut, but by the taste, I know they did their best. This dish is some peanut and chili and chicken breast mixed together. However, my friends like this dish a lot.
脆鱔 the crispy eel
I have always loved this dish. As I read from magazine, the former top chef of Shanghai Fraternity Association can cook the best crispy eel, I ordered and tried.
It smells so good and it truly crispy and you can still taste the sweetness and sourness of the source, the eel does not smell like dead fish at all. I LOVE THIS DISH
煙燻雞 the smoked chicken
Besides the crispy eel, I would say this is also one of the best dish in the restaurant ( even though I didn’t try all the food there, but to me, it is one of the best!)
You can truly taste the strong flavor of the fresh chicken. Also, as the manager told me, the chicken is smoked with a special Chinese flower, this chicken smells just good and tasty.
東坡肉
I always think this is really heavy, to be honest, this dish is heavy, but they cook it very nicely. The fat meat totally melt in your mouth when u eat it. The source isn’t too salty or sweet. It is good too!
清蒸鰣魚
This can be called my FAVORITE fish in Chinese cuisine. For you people who loves to eat would know this dish usually at some other Shanghai Restaurant, would cost you $ 800 - $1200 , for example like Shanghai Fraternity Association 上海總會, 留園 ….) however at 知味舍, its only $ 600 and it can be eaten by 7-8 person. This fish is so tasty and I can taste the sweetness and good smell of both the fish and the Chinese wine. You can rarely try this fish in Hong Kong, but only in some of the Shanghai Restaurant. This is HIGHLY recommended!!!!!

After this dinner, this surly is one of my happy experience of Shanghai Cuisine. I m sure this newly opened restaurant will be one of those famous restaurant in Hong Kong one day. Here I give my best wishes to this restaurant and I would like to thank you the chef who made good food and an enjoyable dinner to me and my friends.

Shanghai Fraternity Association has been running for so many years.
However, people can only enjoy the food there unless they are members or bring by members. To be their members, they set up a lot of strict rules. First of all, you have to be a Shanghainese, secondly, you gotta be rich in the society. That means it can be called a valuable chance to try out the food there since not everyone is Shanghainese.

I gotta admit, I love Shanghai Cuisine and I used to love the food there. But this didn’t last long. Even though I heard rumour that the Top Chef of Shanghai Fraternity Association has joined another newly opened Restaurant in Causeway Bay called Zhi Wei Shanghai Restaurant 知味舍. I didn’t believe it until I tried so.
Last Sunday, 15/08/2010,
I went there to try the food with some relatives.
However, the food is not as tasty as in the past.
脆鱔 used to be the most favorite dish in the restaurant.
However, it is not crispy and with the strong stink smell of fish.
燻蛋 can be called smoked egg. Well, it does have a strong smell of smoke but it is not delighting at all. I wouldn’t call it smells good but it smells stale or polluted. I strongly DO NOT recommend this dish.
煙燻雞 is just the same as燻蛋, it is called the smoked chicken in English.
However, the smell of smoke is strong but like I said it didn’t smell good but stale and polluted. Also, it wasn’t hot enough to bring out the taste of chicken.
走油元蹄 is just too heavy and healthy. As refer to its name, it is called less oil. However it ended up with lots of oil which is totally not enjoyable.
生煎包 the skin of it is so thick and it wasn’t juicy at all.
After the whole dinner, I am really disappointed. Do not even mention it is one of the best shanghai restaurant. It is a shame for them to cook and sell food at this quality. You may think I’m picky but I have demand when it comes to food. This restaurant is NO LONGER recommended anymore.