Flower Drum Opens in Melbourne's Chinatown

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

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  Quanjude opened in 1864 and made its name on a method: hanging the ducks in an open oven over fruitwood rather than closing them in, which crisps the skin differently. The dish it standardised is the one the world now calls Peking duck, and the carving at the table is part of it.

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  The Fox: NGV Contemporary Targets a 2028 Opening in Melbourne

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  Starts 12/31/2028ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the source^[1]: NGV Contemporary "is slated to open in 2028."

  The National Gallery of Victoria's new contemporary art wing, The Fox: NGV Contemporary, is under construction in Melbourne's Southbank arts precinct with a targeted 2028 opening, part of a rivalry with Hobart's MONA.

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  Cafe Batavia Opens on Fatahillah Square

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  Starts 12/31/1993ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE32.7 years agoThe article records the restaurant as established in 1993 without a month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day. The building itself is far older than the restaurant in it.^[1]

  Cafe Batavia opened in 1993 in the second-oldest building on Jakarta's old town square, a Dutch colonial house restored as a restaurant, with teak floors, ceiling fans and walls papered in old portraits. It faces the former city hall across the cobbles of Fatahillah Square.

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  Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant Opens in Shanghai

  Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant85 Yuyuan Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, China

  Starts 12/31/1900ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE125.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] states "It was established in 1900" and gives no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day. It is placed at a Shanghai branch of the restaurant rather than the original premises.

  The house that made xiaolongbao a Shanghai export was established in 1900, selling the thin-skinned soup dumplings that had been developed in Nanxiang town on the city's edge a couple of decades earlier. Queues for them became a fixture of the old city, and the name is now on branches across Shanghai and abroad.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Star Brisbane Opens at Queen's Wharf

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  Starts 08/29/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Star Grand Hotel, the new Star Brisbane casino... opened on 29 August 2024".

  The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.

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  Rosy Opens in Cleveland

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  Starts 02/28/2026ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE207 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

  Vinnie Cimino and Andrew Watts, of Cordelia, open a wood-fired restaurant in Ohio City inspired by the Istrian Peninsula.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Cadbury Opens Its Claremont Chocolate Factory on the Derwent

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  Starts 10/21/1921CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE104.9 years agoThe Glenorchy City Council's centenary history and Wikipedia's^[2] article on the factory both give October 21, 1921 as its official opening date.

  Cadbury's first factory outside Britain officially opened at Claremont on Hobart's Derwent River on October 21, 1921, drawn by Tasmania's cheap hydroelectricity and reliable dairy supply. The site still turns local milk and sugar into millions of Easter eggs and bunnies each year.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Victorian Railways Completes the New Flinders Street Station Building

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  Starts 12/31/1909ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE116.7 years agoWikipedia^[2] dates the current building's completion to 1909 - "essentially finished by mid-1909" - with the Flinders Street verandah and the concourse roof finished only after the official opening in 1910. No source gives an exact day, so the date sits on the last day of 1909.

  Victorian Railways finished the current Flinders Street Station building in Melbourne, replacing earlier structures with the Federation Free Classical terminus still in use today. The building was essentially finished in 1909, with the official opening the following year.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Meju Opens in Long Island City

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  Starts 01/31/2023ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1/33.6 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as January 2023, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

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  Starts 07/31/2025ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as July 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

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• Property09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Hetao Tech Park's Remaining First-Batch Buildings Start Completing

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland Opens in a Flooded Quarry

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  Starts 11/15/2018CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE7.9 years agoHappened as dated: IHG's own release announcing 'the grand opening of InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland' is dated 15 November 2018, and ArchDaily's project entry gives 'Opened: 15th November 2018'. Wikipedia's^[2] 20 November 2018 start of operations is the outlier.

  IHG opened the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, an 18-storey hotel built into the walls of a disused quarry with two underwater floors set against a lit aquarium.

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