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Flower Drum | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | 26 May 1975 |
Owner(s) | Anthony Lui, William Shek, Patricia Fung |
Previous owner(s) | Gilbert Lau |
Head chef | Anthony Lui |
Food type | Chinese |
Street address | 17 Market Lane |
City | Melbourne |
Postal/ZIP Code | 3000 |
Country | Australia |
Website | flowerdrum |
The Flower Drum is a Chinese restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, which is widely regarded as a Melbourne institution. [1] [2] It is frequently booked months in advance. [3] [4] It is located just off Bourke Street in Market Lane in the Chinatown precinct of the Melbourne CBD.
The Flower Drum was established by Gilbert Lau and opened on 26 May 1975. [5] The restaurant originally opened in a converted car park at 103 Little Bourke Street and took its name from the 1961 film, Flower Drum Song , a Rogers and Hammersein musical about expatriate Chinese and their life in America. [6]
In 1980 the restaurant scoring two chef's hats in The Age's Good Food Guide's first edition. [7] Since then the Good Food Guide has named it 'Restaurant of the Year' on numerous occasions. [8] In 1985 the restaurant moved around the corner to its current site. [5] In 2003 Lau sold the restaurant to his employees: executive chef Anthony Lui, William Shek and Patricia Fung. [9]
In 2019, Anthony's son, Jason, who is now the restaurant's operational manager, has ushered the restaurant into the digital age by refreshing its menu and creating a recognisable social media presence for it.[ citation needed ]
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