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Tai Ping Koon was established in 1860 serving Western food to Chinese diners, and in doing so more or less invented the genre Hong Kong calls soy-sauce Western - Swiss chicken wings in a sweet soy braise, baked pork chop rice, souffle to finish. It began in Canton and became a Hong Kong business alone when the Canton branch was confiscated and closed in 1956.

The Central Kowloon Route opens to traffic as the Central Kowloon Bypass (Yau Ma Tei Section), a 4.7 km dual three-lane trunk road that is about 3.9 km tunnel, running beneath densely built Kowloon from the Yau Ma Tei Interchange in West Kowloon to the Kai Tak Development Area and Kowloon Bay in the east. It forms the western half of Route 6.

CEDD's 3.4 km dual two-lane Trunk Road T2, of which about 3.1 km is tunnel, links the Central Kowloon Bypass at Kai Tak to the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel, commissioning Route 6 in full as an east-west express link between West Kowloon and Tseung Kwan O. The main construction contract alone is worth HK$10.918 billion.

The last five of the eight Batch 1 buildings in Phase 1 of the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone begin coming on stream at the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Two wet laboratory buildings and a talent accommodation block were finished first and the Hong Kong Park was officially opened in December 2025.

Kwu Tung opens between Sheung Shui and Lok Ma Chau as the first railway station serving the Kwu Tung North new development area in Hong Kong's Northern Metropolis. It is being built by cut-and-cover directly above the operating Lok Ma Chau Spur Line tunnel, using box structures left in place when that tunnel was built, so East Rail trains keep running underneath.