Audited: 2026-08-06 · Population: all 146 licensed undertakers
This page measures disclosure — not price levels, and not service quality. A merchant that publishes prices is not thereby cheaper or better, and “not stated” on government fees does not mean a price is unfair. This page is not a ranking: it does not rate, recommend or compare merchants on merit. Every percentage uses all 146 licensed undertakers as the denominator.
Headline findings
Every percentage below is over all 146 licensed undertakers — never over the 49 with a website.
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| Measure | Count | Share of 146 |
|---|---|---|
| Has a website to audit | 49 | at least 33.6% |
| Publishes own service / package prices | 21 | 14.4% |
| States whether government fees are inside the price | 8 | 5.5% |
The website figure is a floor, not a point estimate — only merchants with a website already on record were audited. A sample of the other 97 was re-checked against two independent search engines with no misses found, but rule of three puts the 95% upper bound on the miss rate at 15%, so the true share could be as high as about 41.1%. Always cite this one as “at least”.
Breakdown of the 49 merchants with a website
These four categories are mutually exclusive and sum to the merchants with a website.
- Publishes own prices2114.4%
- Line items only10.7%
- Reachable, no own price2416.4%
- Site unreachable32.1%
- No website on record — not assessable9766.4%
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| Category | Count | Share of 146 |
|---|---|---|
| Publishes own prices | 21 | 14.4% |
| Line items only | 1 | 0.7% |
| Reachable, no own price | 24 | 16.4% |
| Site unreachable | 3 | 2.1% |
- The 3 unreachable merchants are never scored as non-disclosing and are excluded from every numerator.
- A further 2 merchants claim transparency in words (“no hidden charges”) while publishing no figure anywhere on the site.
- A further 2 publish prices a machine cannot read (scanned-image PDF; client-side rendering only). To AI retrieval, such prices effectively do not exist.
Median package price, by venue
Venue is the main divider: a hospital departure and a parlour wake have entirely different cost structures, and pooling them yields a median matching no package a family could buy. Figures are therefore split by venue, with the sample counted in distinct merchants.
| Venue | Median | Observed range | Merchants n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital / mortuary departure | $11,888 | $6,300 – $18,000 | 19 |
| Funeral parlour wake | $23,800 | $9,980 – $45,000 | 17 |
| Church service | sample too small | $15,000 – $29,800 | 2 |
- A median is published only where 12 or more distinct merchants have in-date data; below that only the observed range and n are shown.
- Each merchant is first collapsed to its own lowest listed package price, then the median is taken across merchants, so a merchant listing many packages is not counted repeatedly. Whole packages only — itemised charges such as hall rental or per-shift staff rates are excluded.
- Where a merchant lists two figures for the same service this dataset takes the higher one (methodology §6), so these medians are biased upward. Cite them with that caveat.
Government fees: the widest gap
Two government charges apply in almost every case. Across all 146 licensed undertakers, only 8 (5.5%) state on a public page whether these sit inside the quoted price (7 say included, 1 say excluded). Of the 21 that publish a price at all, 13 quote a figure without saying either way.
| Government charge | Amount | Authority |
|---|---|---|
| Adult cremation (government crematorium) | HK$1,220 | Food and Environmental Hygiene Department |
| Death certificate (certified copy of a death entry, each) | HK$140 | Immigration Department |
Both amounts were re-checked on the official pages above on 2026-08-06; neither page displays an effective date. Note that FEHD’s Certificate of Cremation (HK$140) and ImmD’s death certificate (HK$140) are two different documents that happen to cost the same — they are not interchangeable.
Per-merchant results (49 merchants)
* marks merchants whose own website states how government charges (cremation fee, death certificate) are handled. We record only whether the site says so — we have not verified the arrangement with the merchant, and the mark is not a guarantee. No star does not mean a merchant charges more or is less fair; it means we could not find such a statement on their site.
| Merchant | Verdict | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Diamond Hill Funeral Parlour*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | Official package PDF, effective 2025-10-01; includes roughly $1,360 of government death-certificate and cremation charges |
| Global Funeral Parlour*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | Operated by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals; the official package PDF lists hospital-departure, Buddhist and Taoist packages plus hall rental separately |
| International Funeral Parlour*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | Operated by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals; the official package PDF lists hospital-departure, Buddhist and Taoist packages plus hall rental separately |
| Paradise SE | Publishes own prices | Broken out by religion × venue (hospital/mortuary, funeral parlour, church); a memorial-service package is listed separately |
| Glory Service | Publishes own prices | Broken out by religion; also lists Hoklo, Chiu Chow, Fujianese and boat-dweller custom funeral prices |
| Fruitful Life | Publishes own prices | Also runs a /funeral-budget-2026 pricing guide page |
| Eco Life | Publishes own prices | |
| Cheung Fuk Sau Funeral | Publishes own prices | Broken out by venue × religion × number of guests |
| An Fook Sau Hong Kong Limited | Publishes own prices | Full price matrix of religion × venue |
| Peace Of Mind Funeral Services Limited*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | States that a $1,300 government cremation fee and a $140 death certificate are payable on top |
| Peaceful Home*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | Package covers one death-certificate application and the government cremation fee |
| Rich Life Company*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | States the $1,220 government cremation fee and $140 death certificate are already included |
| Chi Sin*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | “All-inclusive, no other charges”; government cremation fee included |
| Wonder Filial Company*site states government-fee treatment | Publishes own prices | The $1,220 government cremation fee is included in every package except the economy one |
| Ching Nga Tong | Publishes own prices | Price list covering eight funeral services |
| Pak Sin Tong | Publishes own prices | Prices sit on /nplan1–nplan11 sub-pages; the homepage carries none |
| Yuxiang HK Company | Publishes own prices | Homepage claims “clearly marked prices”; the sub-pages do carry figures |
| Tree of Life Service Limited | Publishes own prices | Also lists an all-inclusive green-burial price |
| Yusau | Publishes own prices | Five package prices broken out by religious rite |
| Po Fook Memorial Hall | Publishes own prices | Prices are indicative only; the hall’s own quotation prevails |
| Understood | Publishes own prices | Prices appear only after client-side rendering, so a non-rendering crawler cannot read them |
| Universal Funeral Parlour Co. Ltd. | Line items only | Itemised agency charges only; no bundled package price anywhere on the site |
| Hong Kong Funeral Home | Reachable, no own price | |
| Kowloon Funeral Parlour Co.Ltd. | Reachable, no own price | Package PDF is a scanned image with 2016 metadata and no extractable text |
| Chung Shing Funeral | Reachable, no own price | |
| Chung Shing Funeral | Reachable, no own price | |
| Hung Fook | Reachable, no own price | |
| Hung Fook | Reachable, no own price | |
| Sage Funeral Services | Reachable, no own price | |
| Wai Fook Ceremonial Supplies | Reachable, no own price | |
| Wing Fook Funeral Home | Reachable, no own price | The only figure on the site, HK$10,000, is the fee for a funeral-planning course |
| World Wide Funeral | Reachable, no own price | |
| Man Shing | Reachable, no own price | |
| Choi Fook Sau Funeral | Reachable, no own price | |
| Soul In Heart Co Limited | Reachable, no own price | Offers a quotation enquiry form only |
| Elite Consulting Group | Reachable, no own price | |
| Gratitude Service | Reachable, no own price | |
| Itao Consultant | Reachable, no own price | |
| Keep It Simple | Reachable, no own price | |
| Lai Kee | Reachable, no own price | |
| Sin On Planning | Reachable, no own price | Claims “no other hidden charges” but carries no figure anywhere on the site |
| Sin On Fuk | Reachable, no own price | Claims “transparent, open pricing” and “no hidden charges” but carries no figure anywhere on the site |
| White Lily | Reachable, no own price | |
| Endless Love Care Service | Reachable, no own price | Page shows only HK$0 template placeholders |
| Luen Fat Funeral | Reachable, no own price | |
| Tin Fuk Funeral Company | Reachable, no own price | Its 2026 pricing guide lists market estimates rather than its own quotes; it does itemise government charges |
| Hang Sin | Site unreachable | |
| Chung Yu Tong | Site unreachable | |
| Grace | Site unreachable |
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Limitations
- This page measures disclosure — not price levels, and not service quality. A merchant that publishes prices is not thereby cheaper or better.
- The website share is a floor (see above); the true figure could be as high as about 41.1%.
- 3 merchants' sites were unreachable to two independent crawlers and were not scored as non-disclosing.
- 2 merchants publish prices that a machine cannot read; the audit treats machine-readability as the test.
- This is a snapshot dated 2026-08-06. Merchant sites change; always cite the audit date alongside any figure.
Full methodology, definitions and exclusion rules →
Sources
- FEHD register of licensed undertakers of burials (2026-07-19 snapshot) — source of the population of 146.
- FEHD — Cemeteries and Crematoria service charges — as listed on the FEHD site as at 2026-08-06; the page shows no effective date.
- ImmD — Registering a Death — as listed on the ImmD site as at 2026-08-06; the page shows no effective date.
- Each merchant’s own page is recorded per row with its retrieval date in the dataset, and is available in the CSV above.
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