Sauce Lifestyle is a flash of modern grey on the lower end of Elgin Street, tucked between a traditional Hong Kong stall selling secondhand wares and an alteration shop with cheongsams in the window. A white neon sign draws your eye to the shop; peek inside and you’ll see colourful graffiti sprayed on the walls and hear bumping hip-hop.
While the space seems almost intimidatingly cool, not everyone within is tattooed or dressed in oversized tees and limited-edition trainers—a wide range of male (and occasionally female) clients, from kids to older gents and suits to, yes, creatives, occupy the black leather chairs, in obedience to Sauce’s tagline: “Respect your dome”.
Sauce was opened by Sean O’Connor and Jack Sealy, with the former bringing barbering expertise and