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Flower Drum

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Flower Drum’s signature dish is the Peking duck.
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Flower Drum

A union of subtle and statement-making moments.

Cantonese$$$

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Go-to dish: Peking duck.
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This nearly 40-year-old stalwart delivers dishes that let luxury produce shine.

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Rich, famous, infamous and ordinary, the 'Drum' has drawn them all with the city's finest Cantonese ...

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Something strange and marvellously unexpected has happened. Flower Drum has got its mojo back.

  • Larissa Dubecki
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Flower Drum

Something strange and marvellously unexpected has happened. Flower Drum has got its mojo back.

  • Larissa Dubecki

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