We investigated the Malaysian food economy

RM40.00 for
nasi lemak?!

Yes, really. We went through delivery menus in every Malaysian state and found plates from RM5.30 sampai RM40.00. Some were questionable. Some were memang shocking. All of them are below.

The Harga Index Vol. 1, by Share Eat! · 619 hand-collected price points across 4 dishes · updated 13 August 2026

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🍛
RM0
median nasi lemak ayam
150 restaurants
🍗
RM0
median ayam gepuk set
152 restaurants
☕
RM0
median iced kopi
150 outlets
🍵
RM0
median iced matcha
150 outlets

Why are we doing this?

Because we believe discovery shouldn't be expensive.

Great restaurants deserve to be discovered. And great creators shouldn't have to spend hundreds of ringgit every month just to create content. So we're building Share Eat! to connect restaurants with food creators, making it easier for restaurants to get discovered and easier for creators to create.

This index is our little experiment to understand Malaysia's food scene along the way.

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The Harga Challenge

Think you know what Malaysia charges?

Before you scroll down and see the answers, test yourself first. Five plates, five guesses.

THE HARGA CHALLENGEby

We show you a real dish from a real state. You guess what it costs. Get close and you win the round.
Most people only get 2 out of 5.

🍛Nasi Lemak
🍗Ayam Gepuk
☕Kopi Ais
🍵Matcha
RM5.30cheapest we found RM40.00the most expensive

15 states · 619 real prices. Every answer is somewhere on that line.

your guess
RM15.00
the real price
RM0.00
RM2.00RM45.00
0/5
Your five rounds
Drawing your card…
Your Harga Challenge result card
This is actually our side quest. We run an app.
Share Eat! connects Malaysian restaurants with food creators. Restaurants get discovered without an ad budget, creators stop paying for every meal they film. Counting prices is just how we started understanding the problem.
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The Price Gap

Same plate.
Same country.
Harga lain cerita.

Every price is exactly as listed on a public delivery menu. Collected by hand, no agak-agak.

RM5.30
Cheapestnasi lemak ayam, Terengganu
RM11.87
National medianacross all 15 states
RM40.00
Most ExpensiveSet 7 Udang, Putrajaya
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RM8.50
national median
RM5RM26
The Sedap Map

Malaysia, priced by the plate

Real map, real prices. The darker the gold, the more your wallet kena.

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Laut China Selatan Selat Melaka

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The State Battle

Which state charges the most?

The T-20 Menu

The most expensive nasi lemak in every state

We hunted down the most expensive nasi lemak dish on public delivery menus in each territory. The winners are... a lot.

The RM10 Line

How many of these still cost under RM10?

We held all 619 prices against one RM10 note. Kopi still boleh. The rest, sorry la.

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The Food Value Index

Which state is most berbaloi? Don't gaduh ah.

Combined ranking across the two food dishes (nasi lemak + ayam gepuk). Cheaper plates, higher score.

v1 is price-based (median nasi lemak + median ayam gepuk). Ratings and delivery fees join the formula in Vol. 2.

The Harga Index is built by
We connect Malaysian restaurants with food creators, so restaurants get discovered without an ad budget and creators stop paying for every meal they film. Counting prices is how we started understanding the problem.
Own a restaurant? → Are you a food creator? →
The Receipts

Explore the raw data

Every price here comes straight from a public delivery menu, collected by hand on 11 to 13 August 2026. Ten restaurants per dish per state, each one dated and published with its source. Search it, filter it, fact-check us.

Download the dataCSV · 619 rows How we counted →

The "most expensive state" title changed hands four times as the sample grew. Small samples are confident liars, which is exactly why we kept counting to ten.

RestaurantStateItemRM

Think we missed one? 👀

Found a crazier price? Send us the menu, the location and the price. The best finds go into Part 2.

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🍛Nasi Lemak Index · Vol. 1 🍗Ayam Gepuk Index · Vol. 1 ☕Kopi Ais Index · Vol. 1 🍵Matcha Index · Vol. 1
🍗Chicken Rice Index 🍜Mee Goreng Index 🫓Roti Canai Index

We scrape Malaysia's menus so you don't have to.

The Share Eat! manifesto

Discovery Shouldn't Be Expensive.

Malaysia has thousands of great restaurants. But being great doesn't guarantee being discovered.

At the same time, food creators are expected to constantly create, often spending their own money just to find the next restaurant, shoot the next video and keep their audience fed with something new.

We think there's a better way. Restaurants have something worth sharing. Creators have people worth sharing it with. Share Eat! brings them together.

And because we're obsessed with Malaysian food, we're starting by understanding it. That's why we built the Harga Index.

Because great food deserves to be discovered.
And discovery shouldn't be expensive.

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