SHANGHAI SMOKES
May 1st, 2004
BY EDWARD PETERSCRUISE to the top of Shanghai's funkiest "shop, slurp and schmooze" conglomerate - a seven-storey, 88-year-old, restored post-renaissance pile dubbed Three On The Bund - and run an eye over the tongue-in-cheek menu at the "New Heights" restaurant. Alongside items like "Bloody Mary - made properly" and the house motto "If We Can We Will Just Ask" stands the intriguing entry "Breakfast of Champions - 20 Marlboro Lights and a big cup of coffee: 55 RMB (US$6.60)".In case anyone is left in any doubt, there is no stigma attached to smoking in this, the ...
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