Flower Drum Opens in Melbourne's Chinatown
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCEWikipedia[1] states the day: "The Flower Drum was established by Gilbert Lau and opened on 26 May 1975", and its infobox carries the same date.
Gilbert Lau opened Flower Drum on 26 May 1975 in Melbourne's Chinatown and spent the following decades making the case that Cantonese cooking belonged at the top of Australian fine dining rather than in a separate category of it. It has been a fixture of the city's restaurant lists ever since, on Market Lane.
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