Hong Kong,
from street
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Official tourism classification

Area: tsim sha tsui

Grade B — an Indian restaurant at Rm 12A, G/F, Chung King Mansion, 36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui — a Chungking Mansions halal landmark. It is reported listed Type H (fully halal, no pork/alcohol) on the ICFHK list, valid to 30 Nov 2026. Red-team: the Type-H claim rests ONLY on the 403-gated ICFHK PDF + one unreliable OpenRice page (whose auto dish-tags even mention "pork murtabak" for a moved address) — with no independent tier confirmation → we cap it at B pending on-site / ICFHK-direct confirmation. Probably good, but verify the certificate first.

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Certifier in the record

Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong (ICFHK)

Certificate scope

Listed Type H on the ICFHK list per one read (entry #27, valid to 30/Nov/2026) — but the list is 403-gated (sole source) → capped at B pending on-site / ICFHK-direct confirmation

• ICFHK / IUHK — official "Halal Certified Food Premises" list; reported entry #27 House of Curry, Type H, valid to 30/Nov/2026 (list is 403-gated to automated fetch) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• OpenRice Hong Kong — corroborates venue identity/location (Indian, Chungking Mansions); auto dish-tags unreliable ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Official tourism classification

Area: causeway bay

Grade B — Shalimar Club is listed on the official ICFHK halal register ("Restaurants with Halal Certification on Hong Kong Island", updated 30 June 2026) as entry #49 with an exact name+address match (Flat B4, 1/F, Dragon Rise, 9-11 Pennington Street, Causeway Bay). Red-team: it is on the ICFHK list, but the TIER that separates A from B/HF was NOT captured (list 403) — so we cap it at B pending tier confirmation. Do NOT confuse it with the co-located "Shalimar Indian Restaurant"; the ICFHK register certifies "Shalimar Club" at that address. Confirm the certificate with ICFHK (halal@islamictrusthk.org).

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Certifier in the record

Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong (ICFHK)

Certificate scope

On the ICFHK Hong Kong-Island register (entry #49) but the certificate TIER (H/HK/HF) and expiry were not readable (list 403) → capped at B pending tier confirmation

• ICFHK — official Halal Certified Food Premises register, updated 30 June 2026; Shalimar Club is entry #49 with exact name+address match ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• HalalTrip community directory listing (reader-reported; weaker corroboration only) ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Official tourism classification

Area: central

Grade B — SERVES ALCOHOL ON PREMISES: halal food from a certified kitchen, NOT a full-halal restaurant. A modern North Indian restaurant at 1/F Winning Centre, 46 Wyndham Street, Central. Its ICFHK signal is real — listed on the IUHK Hong Kong-Island halal list and ICFHK-certified since 2002 (halal chicken, lamb, fish). BUT the certification is the KITCHEN tier, not a full halal restaurant: the venue serves alcohol via a full bar (whisky, wine — confirmed on the operator's own site). Under the max-strength rubric, a kitchen-only certificate combined with on-premises alcohol maps to Grade B. Kitchen prep is certified halal (not shared with non-halal cooking); ownership is not Muslim.

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Certifier in the record

Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong (ICFHK)

Certificate scope

Halal KITCHEN tier — food/kitchen certified halal since 2002, but alcohol is served in the dining area (full bar) → not a full halal restaurant

• Islamic Union of Hong Kong (IUHK) / ICFHK — official halal certification list ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• S&S Hospitality (Bombay Dreams operator) — official venue page confirming address, halal meats and a full bar (whisky/wine) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• A Foodie World — explains HK's three ICFHK tiers; places Bombay Dreams in the kitchen (alcohol-served) tier ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Official tourism classification

Area: tsim sha tsui

Grade B — SERVES ALCOHOL ON PREMISES + CURRENT CERTIFICATE STATUS UNVERIFIED. A long-established (1972) Indian restaurant at 5/F, Prince Tower, 12A Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. It holds a GENUINE ICFHK Halal-Kitchen certificate — verified on the certifier's list as Kowloon entry #12 — so the halal signal is real, not directory-only. HOWEVER it is branded a "Restaurant & Bar" and serves alcohol on premises. Because a kitchen-only certificate + alcohol maps to Grade B (the same profile as Bombay Dreams). Red-team: the only readable certificate is a June-2023 snapshot — so we do NOT present it as currently certified; re-confirm the up-to-date ICFHK PDF (bot-blocked/403) or an on-site certificate photo. Also HKTB QTS-accredited and Michelin-guide recommended.

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Certifier in the record

Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong (ICFHK)

Certificate scope

Halal KITCHEN tier; the only readable certificate is a June-2023 mirror snapshot — CURRENT status UNVERIFIED (live list 403); also serves alcohol → capped at B, re-confirm the certificate

• ICFHK / Islamic Union of Hong Kong — official halal certification list (403 to automated fetch but the authoritative certifier list) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• ICFHK "Halal Certified Food Premises" list (mirror copy, June-2023 snapshot) — Gaylord confirmed Kowloon #12, 5/F Prince Tower, 12A Peking Road, Indian; bears ICFHK logo ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Venue's own page — 'Gaylord Indian Restaurant and Bar' + beverage menu → confirms alcohol served on premises (does NOT state halal) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Tatler Asia editorial — classifies Gaylord under ICFHK "halal-certified kitchen" category (food certified, non-halal items in dining area) ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Muslim-owned / self-declared

五指間蘭州牛肉麵

Area: wan chai

Grade C — a Chinese-Muslim (Lanzhou-style) hand-pulled beef noodle restaurant (pork-free) with branches in Wan Chai (298 Hennessy Rd), Causeway Bay & Tsim Sha Tsui. The venue physically DISPLAYS a halal certificate (confirmed by an OpenRice reviewer) and self-brands halal on its own site and Instagram, and secondary listings mirror Type-H / expiry-20-Mar-2027 metadata. However, every official ICFHK/IUHK URL returned 403/404, so the venue could NOT be confirmed on the certifier list — the certificate is corroborated only by self-declaration + a displayed cert + directory metadata. Per the rubric, a Chinese-Muslim, self-declared-halal venue whose certificate is confirmable only via directory / on-site display is Grade C. The displayed physical certificate is a genuine positive that pushes it to the top of C; confirm on the official ICFHK list before treating it as fully certified.

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• OpenRice Hong Kong — independent diner review confirming a displayed halal certificate of authenticity in-store ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Venue's own website — self-declared halal, 'Authentic Halal Beef Noodles' ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Venue's own Instagram — 'HALAL - Wuzhijian Lanzhou Beef Noodles' ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Muslim-owned / self-declared

泰伊巴清真美食

Area: wan chai

Grade C — a Xinjiang (Chinese-Muslim / Uyghur) halal eatery in Wan Chai; its Chinese name carries 清真 (halal) and it is Muslim-run and pork-free by cuisine. However, the claimed ICFHK certification could NOT be confirmed at the certifier level: the official IUHK PDF was inaccessible (403), the venue does NOT appear in the readable 2023 mirror of that same official list, and the ICFHK site list could not be loaded — the only "certified" corroboration is a restaurant directory (OpenRice), not ICFHK or the venue itself. Per the rubric, a Muslim-owned / self-declared halal venue with no confirmable formal certificate is Grade C (a genuine halal signal — Muslim Xinjiang cuisine + a 清真 name — but not certifier-confirmed).

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• OpenRice Hong Kong (restaurant directory) — Xinjiang, tagged "Certified Halal Food" ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Mirror of the IUHK Halal Certified Food Premises list (2023) — Taiba/Xinjiang NOT present in readable text (certifier listing not confirmable) ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Community-reported — pending

Area: central

Grade D (caution) — a Lebanese restaurant at 33 Staunton Street, Soho, Central. It genuinely appears on the ICFHK halal list, but classified "HF — Halal Friendly" (valid to 13 Apr 2027) — a tier the ICFHK legend itself DISTINGUISHES from full "H" and "HK" certification. Consistent with HF, OMNIA serves alcohol on premises (Lebanese wine and arak-based cocktails) and makes no halal claim on its own website. The red-team downgraded it B→D: an HF listing certifies NOTHING about the food + on-premises alcohol = a Muslim-friendly restaurant WITHOUT a full product-halal certificate. Treat it as: the food may be halal-sourced, but the venue is an alcohol bar — verify the meat sourcing yourself before dining.

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• ICFHK — official halal list. OMNIA row: G/F Soho, 33 Staunton Street, Lebanese, code HF (Halal Friendly), expiry 13/Apr/27. Legend: H=Halal Restaurant, HK=Halal Kitchen, HF=Halal Friendly ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• OMNIA official website — confirms Lebanese cuisine; makes NO halal / ICFHK certification claim of its own ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Bloomberg restaurant review — OMNIA serves alcohol on premises (Lebanese wine list; arak-based cocktails) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Sassy Hong Kong halal guide — documents that alcohol-serving Lebanese restaurants source halal meat but are NOT fully halal-certified because they serve alcohol ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Community-reported — pending

Area: central

Grade D (caution) — Shahrazad, at 2/F Carfield Commercial Building, 75-77 Wyndham Street, Central, is widely reported to run a "halal-certified kitchen" with all-halal meat. But it is explicitly a "Dining Lounge & Bar" serving cocktails and alcohol on premises, and the claimed ICFHK certification could NOT be independently verified — the official ICFHK/IUHK PDF returned 403, the "halal-certified kitchen" label traces only to travel/food media (Tatler, Sassy HK), and one source states the kitchen is NOT certified precisely because it serves alcohol. Under the rubric, a halal-menu/halal-meat venue in a bar/lounge setting whose full certification is unverifiable is a Grade-D caution: treat the food as halal-menu but the venue as an alcohol-serving bar, and confirm certification with ICFHK before relying on it.

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• ICFHK "Restaurants with Halal Certification" list (claimed source; 403 — entry not confirmable) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Tatler Asia — HK halal food guide (states Shahrazad = halal menu + halal-certified kitchen; describes the HK halal categories) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Sassy Hong Kong — halal restaurants guide (all halal meat; offers cocktails and mocktails; Carfield Commercial Building, 77 Wyndham Street) ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Tripadvisor — confirms name "Shahrazad Lebanese Dining Lounge & Bar" + Central location (bar/lounge setting) ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Pork-free / vegetarian — NOT a halal claim

素食 / 齋菜

Area: hong kong

Grade E (fallback, NOT a halal guarantee) — generic Chinese vegetarian / Buddhist 素食 (齋菜) restaurants are a practical pork-free option, but they make NO halal claim: they may cook with 紹興酒 Shaoxing / rice wine, use egg, mock-meat products or non-halal seasonings, and share woks, steamers and frying oil with other dishes. Use only when no certified option is nearby. Importantly, Hong Kong has ACTUALLY ICFHK-CERTIFIED vegetarian outlets that are far safer than a random 素食 shop — e.g. Bijas Vegetarian (HKU Centennial Campus, Pok Fu Lam) and the pure-veg South Indian Saravanaa Bhavan (TST, ICFHK Type HK) — so prefer a certified vegetarian venue whenever possible.

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• Sassy Hong Kong halal/vegetarian guidance — vegetarian noted as a pork-free fallback (not a halal guarantee), and names ICFHK-certified veg alternatives ↗Checked 2026-07-16
• Wikipedia — Buddhist vegetarian cuisine (素食): pork-free but may use egg/alcohol flavourings; not a halal designation ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Not verified

叉燒 / 燒味 / 燒肉

Area: hong kong

Grade U (honest-negative — NOT halal, included ONLY so Muslim travellers recognise and AVOID it) — char siu (叉燒, honey-glazed BBQ pork) and the siu mei / 燒味 roast-meat family (siu yuk 燒肉 crispy pork belly, roast goose/duck usually hung and basted beside pork) are pork-based Cantonese staples sold at roast-meat shops (燒臘) and heaped over rice (叉燒飯, 燒味飯). A "chicken char siu" at a non-halal 燒臘 counter still shares the same glaze, hooks, chopping boards and oil with pork, so there is no halal version outside a certified halal kitchen. Never publishable as halal — a recognise-and-avoid data point.

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• Wikipedia — Char siu (叉燒): Cantonese barbecued pork, a staple roast meat ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.

Not verified

燒賣 / 叉燒包

Area: hong kong

Grade U (honest-negative — NOT halal) — much of traditional yum cha is pork: 燒賣 siu mai (pork-and-shrimp), 叉燒包 char siu bao (BBQ-pork buns), and many dumplings and wontons use pork or pork fat, while kitchens cook with 豬油 lard and share bamboo steamers, woks and oil across pork and non-pork items — so cross-contact is the norm even for a "non-pork" basket. For halal dim sum, go instead to a certified halal outlet such as the Islamic Centre Canteen (Wan Chai), which replaces all pork with chicken or beef; do NOT assume a regular dim sum house can be made halal.

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• Wikipedia — Siomay / siu mai (燒賣): a traditional dim sum, commonly pork-and-shrimp ↗Checked 2026-07-16

Original record date: 2026-07-16. Check for changes at the outlet before relying on this information.