# Restaurant licences

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- ID: ` hk-fehd-fehdlmis-restaurant-licences `
- Publisher: [Food and Environmental Hygiene Department](/publishers/1b18711f-c6e2-46e5-ab13-824cfcabf1de/) · [Markdown](/publishers/1b18711f-c6e2-46e5-ab13-824cfcabf1de/index.md)
- Categories: [Food](/categories/food/) · [Markdown](/categories/food/index.md)
- Tags: Not stated
- Resources: 3
- Updated: 2025-06-12T16:36:13.260982
- Update frequency (publisher metadata): Daily at 9:00am
- Harvest started: 2026-10-20T22:31:00.105Z
- Licence: Not stated
- Source: [Official metadata record](<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/api/3/action/package_show?id=hk-fehd-fehdlmis-restaurant-licences>)

Harvest started is the source harvest start associated with this record, not its precise retrieval time. Updated is an upstream metadata claim.

## Description

List of licensed restaurants in Hong Kong

## Resources

These are upstream resource links from metadata. Resource contents and endpoint availability have not been verified here.

### [Restaurant licences (Traditional Chinese)](<https://www.fehd.gov.hk/tc_chi/licensing/license/text/LP_Restaurants_TC.XML>)

- Resource ID: ` 29036a9e-709a-4b5c-8216-29c69589155d `
- Format: XML
- Language: Not stated
- Updated: 2024-07-22T07:12:30.149742
- API flag (publisher metadata): N
- Original URL: ` https://www.fehd.gov.hk/tc_chi/licensing/license/text/LP_Restaurants_TC.XML `

List of licensed restaurants in Hong Kong\.  
  
This dataset covers the following licences issued by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department \-   
  
\- General Restaurant Licence  
\- Light Refreshment Restaurant Licence  
\- Marine Restaurant Licence  
  
The XML file contains tags which indicate the type of licence or permit, details of the premises and other information such as whether the premises have obtained approval for outside seating accommodation, special endorsements, karaoke establishment permit or exemption, etc\.

### [Restaurant licences (Common Spatial Data Infrastructure)](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?lang=en&datasetId=fehd_rcd_1630036390312_58893>)

- Resource ID: ` 5d1a5def-fe53-432f-8de1-a06a8274d81f `
- Format: API
- Language: Not stated
- Updated: 2025-06-12T16:36:13.270884
- API flag (publisher metadata): Y
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?lang=en&datasetId=fehd_rcd_1630036390312_58893 `

List of licensed restaurants in Hong Kong\.  
  
This dataset covers the following licences issued by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department \-   
  
\- General Restaurant Licence  
\- Light Refreshment Restaurant Licence  
\- Marine Restaurant Licence  
  
The API contains tags which indicate the type of licence or permit, details of the premises and other information such as whether the premises have obtained approval for outside seating accommodation, special endorsements, karaoke establishment permit or exemption, etc\.

### [Restaurant licences (English)](<https://www.fehd.gov.hk/english/licensing/license/text/LP_Restaurants_EN.XML>)

- Resource ID: ` 9daa7167-931b-487b-a3fc-00689803cbd1 `
- Format: XML
- Language: Not stated
- Updated: 2021-07-02T05:24:20.134018
- API flag (publisher metadata): N
- Original URL: ` https://www.fehd.gov.hk/english/licensing/license/text/LP_Restaurants_EN.XML `

List of licensed restaurants in Hong Kong\.  
  
This dataset covers the following licences issued by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department \-   
  
\- General Restaurant Licence  
\- Light Refreshment Restaurant Licence  
\- Marine Restaurant Licence  
  
The XML file contains tags which indicate the type of licence or permit, details of the premises and other information such as whether the premises have obtained approval for outside seating accommodation, special endorsements, karaoke establishment permit or exemption, etc\.

## Specifications (source links)

### Publisher documentation

- [Data dictionary](<https://www.fehd.gov.hk/datagovhk/data_dictionary/english/restaurant_licences.pdf>) — source-linked; Dataset: data\_dictionary
- [Resource schema](<https://www.fehd.gov.hk/datagovhk/LP_Restaurants.xsd>) — source-linked; Resource Restaurant licences (Traditional Chinese) (29036a9e-709a-4b5c-8216-29c69589155d): schema; Resource Restaurant licences (Common Spatial Data Infrastructure) (5d1a5def-fe53-432f-8de1-a06a8274d81f): schema; Resource Restaurant licences (English) (9daa7167-931b-487b-a3fc-00689803cbd1): schema

Original links supplied in publisher metadata. A source link does not mean that document content is hosted, parsed or verified here; any hosted extraction and its review scope are listed separately below.


Upstream metadata associations only; these links do not validate individual resources or document sections. No extracted document body is hosted here.

## Document availability

Parsed specifications and data dictionaries: not available for this dataset. [Document availability](/documents.md).