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Night & street markets

Open-air markets in the street: Temple Street and the Ladies’ Market by night, three more street markets, the Lunar New Year fairs and past night-market events, from official sources.

Temple Street and the Ladies’ Market are street markets: rows of licensed hawker stalls on streets set aside for hawking. The law lets the Commissioner for Transport set aside a street for hawking, and lets FEHD declare a hawker permitted area for set hours each day. On both streets the Transport Department keeps traffic out until midnight. (Hong Kong e-Legislation, Cap. 132; Hong Kong e-Legislation, Cap. 132AI; Transport Department data, 6 July 2026)

Public markets & cooked food

Night markets 2

Stall opening hours are not in any open dataset, so Harbour does not give them. “Closed to traffic” is when the Transport Department keeps vehicles out of the street (its pedestrian-street data of 6 July 2026).

Licensed pitches: FEHD licence list of 30 September 2026. A licence does not show that a stall is trading. Licence counts for every hawker street →

Street markets 3

FEHD’s three other large hawker areas. No open source calls them night markets.

Seasonal

Past events 7

These events have ended. They are kept here with their dates as a record, not as listings.

  1. Ended

    On Sundays in August 2015 a trial bazaar was held in Kiu Kiang Street, Sham Shui Po. (Government press release, 15 June 2016)

  2. Ended

    During the 2016 Lunar New Year a neighbourhood-run (kaifong) bazaar with cooked food stalls was held at Maple Street Playground. (Government press release, 15 June 2016)

  3. Ended

    The Government launched the Night Vibes Hong Kong campaign on 14 September 2023, to run from around the Mid-Autumn Festival to early 2024. More than 80 shopping malls said they would hold events and outdoor night markets and open longer. (Government press release, 14 September 2023)

  4. Ended

    The Development Bureau and NGOs planned night markets on the Wan Chai, Belcher Bay and Kwun Tong harbourfronts every weekend from late September to late November 2023, with free entry and paid retail, craft and food stalls; no rent was charged for the sites or to stall operators. The Wan Chai site had more than 40 cooked food stalls, and about 270,000 people had visited the three sites by 31 October 2023. (Government press release, 14 September 2023 [2]; Government press release, 1 October 2023; Government press release, 8 November 2023)

  5. Ended

    From 29 September 2023 to 1 October 2023 the Housing Authority’s Domain shopping centre in Yau Tong held a night market of more than 10 stalls. (Government press release, 22 September 2023)

  6. Ended

    A six-month promotion of Temple Street began on 15 December 2023. The Hong Kong Tourism Board organised it for the Night Vibes Hong Kong campaign, with “A taste of Temple Street” food stalls, street decor lights and illuminated art installations. (Government press release, 16 December 2023; Government press release, 24 January 2024 [2])

    Temple Street Night Market →

  7. Ended

    From late January 2024 the Home Affairs Department and the District Councils ran “Day x Night Vibes @ 18 Districts”. By early March 2024, 8 of its activities had included bazaars of about 20 to 120 stalls, mostly dry goods with some cooked food, and FEHD had issued 111 temporary food factory licences so that stalls could cook on site. The Kwun Tong bazaar recorded 800,000 visits over 23 days; those in Wong Tai Sin and Yuen Long ran three days each, with 114,000 and 120,000 visits. (Government press release, 13 March 2024; Government press release, 11 December 2024)

How street hawking is regulated

Licence counts for every hawker street →

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