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Hot Spot: The Collection, Shanghai.(The Good Life)(Pure, Cube and Sugar)(Restaurant review)(Brief article)

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Byline: Barbara Koh

This eclectic three-story nightspot is composed of Pure, a contemporary Japanese restaurant; Sugar, a dessert parlor, and Cube, a silver-black Bond-esque bar and terrace. Puritanical about making comestibles from scratch, it's also perhaps Shanghai's first establishment to ban smoking from eating areas.

Ambience: The space is hushed and suave, yet injected with fun touches, like peanut chopstick rests, a bench swing, open kitchens, Marvel comic strips of a sushi-chef hero and a conveyer belt of candy.

Savory: The menu includes sushi standards with some twists, like crab bundled in translucent cucumber slices and soba noodles in egg ($2 to $8). Grilled ...

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