Malaysians spend between RM400 and RM700 a month on food and beverages when you add it all up — restaurant meals, mamak sessions, GrabFood orders at 11pm, weekend café brunches, and the occasional kopitiam kopi-o that costs RM1.80. That is the single largest discretionary spend category for most urban households. It is also the category where most credit cards quietly underpay you.
Dining credit cards in Malaysia fall into two distinct types, and confusing them is the most expensive mistake you can make with your wallet: cards that reward physical restaurant spend (sitting down, ordering, tapping your card at the table), and cards that reward online food delivery (GrabFood, Foodpanda, ShopeeFood). Many cards do one well and completely miss the other. Some do neither properly despite leading with "dining rewards" in their marketing.
This guide breaks down the cards that are actually worth using in 2026 for F&B spend, with the specific numbers, conditions, and the delivery-app trap explained clearly.
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The Monthly Cap Decides Everything — Read This First
Every "up to 15% cashback" headline in this market is bounded by a monthly cap, and the caps are small. Hong Leong Wise pays the highest published dining rate in Malaysia at 15% — and caps dining cashback at RM15 a month. That cap is reached at RM100 of weekend restaurant spend. Every ringgit after that earns the base rate.
This inverts the way most people choose a card. A 5% rate under an RM50 cap returns more than a 15% rate under an RM15 cap for anyone spending more than RM100 a month on dining — which is nearly everyone this guide is written for.
There are no exceptions. Every elevated food rate in this comparison is capped between RM10 and RM50 a month. The only uncapped rate any of these cards offers is a 0.2% catch-all on non-category spend, which is uncapped precisely because it is worth so little.
Rate × spend, then apply the cap — in that order
On RM300/month of restaurant spend: Hong Leong Wise's 15% computes to RM45, but pays RM15. AmBank's 10% computes to RM30, but pays RM10. Maybank 2 Gold's 5% computes to RM15 and pays RM15 in full, because its cap is RM50. The highest rate on this page is not the highest return.
The Delivery App Trap
Before comparing any card, understand the second rule about dining cashback in Malaysia.
GrabFood, Foodpanda, and ShopeeFood orders are NOT coded as "dining."
When you place a GrabFood order, the payment processor codes that transaction as online retail — typically MCC 5968 or a Grab-specific merchant code. It does not code as MCC 5812 (Restaurants) because Grab is a digital marketplace, not a restaurant. The same applies to Foodpanda and ShopeeFood.
This means: if your card offers an elevated rate on "dining" and 0.2% on "online," your GrabFood orders earn 0.2%. Every time.
The cards that pay well on food delivery are online-category cards, not dining-category cards. This distinction matters most if a significant portion of your food spending goes through delivery apps. For the average urban KL household spending RM500/month on F&B, roughly RM150-200 of that may be delivery — which needs a different card, or a card that treats online as its own separately capped category.
Two cards address it, neither generously. RHB Cash Back names GrabFood, Foodpanda and DeliverEat under an "online dining and grocery" category paying 10%, the highest published delivery rate here — capped at RM10 a month, so it is spent by RM100 of orders. AmBank Cash Rebate pays 10% on online spend under its own separate RM10 cap. Past those ceilings, delivery earns the base rate on every card on this page.
Quick Comparison Table
| Card | Dining rate | Monthly cap | Min. income | Annual fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RHB Cash Back | 5% dining, 10% online food delivery | RM10 per category | RM24,000 | Yr 1 free, then RM70 |
| Maybank 2 Gold (Amex) | 5% all weekend retail | RM50 | RM30,000 | Free |
| AmBank Cash Rebate Visa Platinum | 10% dining | RM10 per category | RM24,000 | Free |
| Standard Chartered Simply Cash | Up to 15% grocery + dining | RM20 shared | RM96,000 | RM250, yr 1 waived |
| Hong Leong Wise | 15% dining, weekends | RM15 | RM24,000 | 1st-yr waiver available |
| RHB Visa Signature | No dining category | RM30 | RM80,000 | Conditional waiver |
| CIMB Cash Rebate Platinum | No dining category | RM30 | RM24,000 | Waived |
| HSBC Amanah MPower Platinum | No dining category | RM15 per category | RM36,000 | Conditional waiver |
Rates, caps and thresholds as published by each issuing bank and checked on 10 September 2026. Terms change — confirm directly with the bank before applying.
This table lists cards, it does not rank them. The ranking below — and the "best" answers in this guide — assume a specific spend split: RM500 a month on F&B, RM300 at restaurants and RM200 on delivery apps. Change that split and the order changes: an all-delivery spender should read the RHB Cash Back row first; a weekend-only diner should read Maybank first regardless of what "#1" says further down.
Card-by-Card Breakdown
1. Maybank 2 Gold — the largest cap, if your merchants take Amex
Headline rate: 5% on weekend retail spend Monthly cap: RM50, up to RM600/year Annual fee: Free Network: the 5% sits on the American Express card of the Maybank 2 pair
Maybank 2 Cards is a pair — an American Express card and a Visa or Mastercard. The 5% weekend cashback is a benefit of the Amex card specifically, on retail spend made on Saturday and Sunday, in Malaysia and overseas. This is the single most misunderstood thing about the card: applying and then using the Visa or Mastercard for weekend dinners earns you nothing at 5%.
How the cashback works:
- 5% of retail spend on Saturday and Sunday
- Capped at RM50 per principal cardmember per month, up to RM600 a year
- Supplementary cardmember spend combines with the principal's and counts toward the same RM50 cap
- Excluded: Maybank EzyCash, EzyPay Plus, Cash Treats, cash advance and balance transfer. Government bodies and utilities have been excluded since 1 June 2019, and e-wallet reloads since 8 July 2019
Why it ranks first for dining: it is not a dining card at all — it is a weekend retail card. But because the benefit applies to all weekend retail rather than a narrow dining MCC, restaurant meals, café brunches and weekend delivery orders all qualify, and the RM50 cap is more than three times the next-largest dining cap in this comparison.
Best for:
Watch out for: two real limits. Weekday dining earns nothing at the elevated rate, so if your eating out is spread evenly across the week you lose most of the benefit. And Amex acceptance in Malaysia is narrower than Visa or Mastercard — strong at malls, chains and hotels, patchier at mamak stalls, kopitiams and independent restaurants. Check the places you actually eat before choosing this card.
Maybank 2 Gold: it is the Amex, and it is weekends only
The 5% is a benefit of the American Express card in the Maybank 2 pair, not the Visa/Mastercard — use the wrong card of the two and you earn the base rate. It applies to Saturday and Sunday retail spend only, capped at RM50/month (RM600/year). E-wallet reloads and utilities are excluded.
2. AmBank Cash Rebate Visa Platinum — dining and online as separate capped categories
Headline rate: 10% Monthly cap: RM10 per category Minimum monthly spend: RM1,500 Annual fee: Free
AmBank pays 10% cashback across Dining, Groceries and Shopping, Online spend, and Public Transport, provided you spend at least RM1,500 in the month. Each category carries its own RM10 monthly cap, and all other eligible spend earns 0.2% unlimited.
The structure is what makes it useful for F&B: because dining and online are separate categories with separate caps, a cardholder who eats out and orders delivery can earn on both, rather than watching delivery spend fall to base rate.
How the cashback works:
- 10% on Dining, Groceries and Shopping, Online spend, Public Transport
- RM10 cap per category per month
- Minimum RM1,500 total monthly spend to unlock the 10% rate
- 0.2% unlimited cashback on other eligible spend
Watch out for: AmBank states that no additional cash rebate is awarded where an online transaction bears the same MCC as the Shopping, Grocery, Dining or Public Transport categories — so a delivery order may not always earn a second, separate RM10. Recurring payments are excluded from the rebate entirely. And the RM1,500 monthly spend requirement is a threshold, not a target: fall below it and the 10% does not apply.
Best for:
3. RHB Cash Back — a real food card, but every category caps at RM10
Headline rate: 5% dining, 10% on online dining and grocery Monthly cap: RM10 per category, including the 10% online food category Minimum monthly spend: RM2,500 to reach the top tier Minimum income: RM24,000 per year Annual fee: first year free, then RM70, waived on RM10,000 annual spend
This is a different product from the RHB Visa Signature further down this page, and the two should not be confused. The Cash Back card genuinely has both a dining category and a separate online dining and grocery category — which is more than most cards here offer — and its 10% is the highest published rate on food delivery in this comparison.
How the cashback works. The rate is tiered on your total monthly spend:
- RM1 to RM999.99: 0.2% on everything
- RM1,000 to RM1,999.99: 1% on petrol, dining, utilities, grocery and online dining/grocery
- RM2,000 to RM2,499.99: 2% on those categories
- RM2,500 and above: 5% on petrol, dining, utilities and grocery, and 10% on online dining and grocery
Its named online merchants include GrabFood, Foodpanda and DeliverEat — the delivery-app category most cards on this page send to the base rate.
What the cap does to that. Each of those five categories carries its own RM10 monthly ceiling. The 10% rate is therefore exhausted at RM100 of delivery spend a month, and the 5% dining rate at RM200 of restaurant spend. On the RM500/month F&B budget used throughout this guide, the card returns RM10 from dining and RM10 from delivery — RM240 a year, the same as AmBank and below Maybank. Only "other spend", which earns 0.2%, is uncapped, and at that rate the absence of a ceiling is worth very little.
Watch out for the threshold. The RM2,500 monthly spend requirement is total card spend, not F&B spend. Below RM2,500 you drop to 2%, and below RM2,000 to 1%, at which point the card is unremarkable.
Best for:
4. Standard Chartered Simply Cash — the highest rate, behind the highest income bar
Headline rate: Up to 15% on selected grocery plus dining, and petrol Monthly cap: RM20 for grocery plus dining, RM20 for petrol, subject to the cap in each spend tier Minimum income: RM96,000 per year Annual fee: RM250 for the principal card, first year waived. Supplementary free
Standard Chartered publishes up to 15% on selected grocery plus dining, with petrol as a separate capped category. Dining is a structural part of the proposition here rather than a rotating campaign category, and the RM20 cap on the grocery-plus-dining bucket is the second largest in this comparison.
Watch out for the fee arithmetic. The RM250 annual fee is waived in the first year only. From year two, the grocery-plus-dining cap of RM20 a month returns at most RM240 a year — which does not cover the fee on its own. The card only makes sense if you also work the petrol category, or if the fee is waived on a spend condition you reliably meet. Confirm the current waiver terms with the bank.
The RM96,000 minimum annual income also puts this card out of reach for most Malaysian earners.
Best for:
5. Hong Leong Wise — the highest dining rate, the smallest cap
Headline rate: 15% on dining, at weekends Monthly cap: RM15 Minimum monthly spend: RM1,000 retail Qualifying codes: MCC 5811, 5812 and 5814 only
Hong Leong Wise publishes the highest dining rate in this comparison. It also carries the smallest cap, and the two facts have to be read together: 15% of RM100 is RM15, so the cap is exhausted at RM100 of weekend restaurant spend. Beyond that the rate is academic.
How the cashback works:
- 15% on dining at weekends, restricted to MCC 5811, 5812 and 5814
- 10% on groceries and essentials, and 10% on petrol at weekends
- 1% on online spend including e-wallet reloads
- 0.2% unlimited on other eligible transactions
- RM15 monthly cap, with a minimum RM1,000 monthly retail spend required to qualify for the elevated rates
The delivery position: online spend earns 1%, not the dining rate. On RM200 of monthly delivery that is RM2. This is a restaurant card, not a delivery card.
On the annual fee: Hong Leong publishes a first-year annual fee waiver for this card. Confirm the current fee and the waiver conditions at the time you apply — an earlier version of this guide stated the fee was never waived, which was wrong.
Best for:
6. RHB Visa Signature — a general spend card, not a dining card
Headline rate: tiered, 1% to 6% Monthly cap: RM30 Minimum income: RM80,000 per year
RHB Visa Signature has no dining category. Its cashback is tiered on total monthly spend and applies to domestic, overseas and online transactions as broad channels:
- RM1,000 to RM2,499 monthly spend: 1%
- RM2,500 to RM3,499: 2%
- RM3,500 and above: 6%
Restaurant spend in Malaysia earns whatever your domestic tier rate is — so the card does reward dining, just not as a named or elevated category. Cashback on those channels is capped at RM30 a month. Entertainment earns 0.20% uncapped, and shopping 0.50% to 2% with an RM100 cap, depending on tier. Cash advance, charity, government and petrol transactions are excluded.
Do not confuse it with the RHB Cash Back card higher up this page. They are separate products with different structures. The Cash Back card has both a dining category and an online food category, each capped at RM10 a month; the Visa Signature has neither. If you came to RHB for food cashback, the Cash Back card is the one you want.
Why it has been demoted in this guide. A previous version ranked this card first for F&B on the basis of a 5% dining rate, an RM50 cap and an RM24,000 minimum income. All three were wrong: there is no dining rate, the cap is RM30, and RHB publishes a minimum annual income of RM80,000. The card can still be a reasonable general cashback card if you spend RM3,500 or more a month — at that level the RM30 cap is reached quickly and returns RM360 a year across all your spending — but it should not be chosen specifically for dining.
Best for:
7. CIMB Cash Rebate Platinum — no dining category
Headline rate: Up to 5% Categories: Groceries, petrol, cinema, mobile and utility bill payments Annual fee: Waived, principal and supplementary
CIMB Cash Rebate Platinum's elevated categories are groceries, petrol, cinema, and mobile and utility bill payments made by standing instruction. Dining is not one of them. All online and retail shopping earns 0.2% unlimited.
It appears here as a caution rather than a recommendation. If you feed your household mainly from the supermarket, this card serves that pattern well. If you eat out, it does not — restaurant spend earns the base rate.
CIMB Cash Rebate is a grocery and petrol card
Its elevated categories are groceries, petrol, cinema, and mobile and utility bills by standing instruction. Dining is not a category, so restaurant and delivery spend both earn the 0.2% base rate. It is on this list so you do not apply for it expecting dining cashback.
8. HSBC Amanah MPower Platinum — Shariah-compliant, but not for dining
Headline rate: 8% Categories: Petrol, groceries and e-wallets Monthly cap: RM15 per category Minimum monthly spend: RM2,000
HSBC Amanah MPower Platinum Credit Card-i is a Shariah-compliant card paying 8% bonus cashback for accumulated monthly spend of RM2,000 and above, capped at RM15 per category per month. The qualifying categories are petrol, groceries and e-wallets — dining is not among them. All other eligible spend earns 0.2%.
The groceries category is limited to named merchants: Giant, Lotus's, Aeon Big and Mydin. E-wallet spend means reload, top-up or payment authorisation on SamsungPay, GrabPay, Touch 'n Go or FavePay.
Why it has been demoted. A previous version of this guide presented this card's 8% as applying to dining. It does not. Readers looking specifically for a Shariah-compliant dining card should note that none of the cards in this comparison combines a Shariah-compliant structure with an elevated dining category — the e-wallet category is the closest indirect route, since Touch 'n Go and GrabPay are accepted at many F&B merchants.
Best for:
Merchant Category Codes: The Number That Decides Your Cashback
Every cashback decision on this page comes down to one number you never see on the receipt: the Merchant Category Code (MCC) that the merchant's acquiring bank assigns to its payment terminal. Your card issuer reads that code — not the name above the shop — to decide whether a transaction counts as "dining." Two outlets that look identical to you can carry different codes, which is why the same card can pay the elevated rate at one kopitiam and the base rate at the next.
For food and beverage spending in Malaysia, these are the codes that matter:
- MCC 5812 — Eating Places and Restaurants. The core dining code. Sit-down restaurants, casual-dining chains, cafés, and most hotel restaurants register here. Nearly every "dining" cashback rate is built around 5812.
- MCC 5814 — Fast Food Restaurants. Counter-service and quick-service outlets. Most cards that reward 5812 also reward 5814, but a few define "dining" narrowly enough to leave fast food out — worth confirming if quick-service is a large part of your spend.
- MCC 5813 — Drinking Places (Bars, Lounges, Pubs). A bar tab often codes here rather than under 5812. Some dining cards exclude 5813, so a card that pays well at restaurants may drop to base rate at a wine bar.
- MCC 5811 — Caterers. Catering and some event F&B. Issuers treat this one inconsistently.
Hong Leong Wise is the one card in this comparison that publishes its qualifying dining codes explicitly: MCC 5811, 5812 and 5814 only. Where an issuer does not publish the list, the bank's hotline can usually confirm it.
The codes that decide your dining rate
5812 (Eating Places and Restaurants) is the core dining code nearly every rate is built around; 5814 (Fast Food) usually qualifies too; 5813 (Bars and Lounges) is often excluded, so a bar tab can drop to base rate; 5811 (Caterers) is treated inconsistently. Grocers (5411) and the food-delivery apps sit outside all of them — which is exactly why delivery orders miss a dining-only rate.
What reliably falls outside the dining codes: supermarkets and grocers (MCC 5411), petrol-station convenience food, and — the expensive one — the food delivery platforms. GrabFood, Foodpanda, and ShopeeFood bill through the platform's own marketplace or online-retail category rather than the restaurant's 5812 terminal, which is exactly why delivery orders miss a dining-only rate.
How to check a merchant's MCC before you rely on it. You cannot see the code at the till, but you can confirm it afterwards. Run one small transaction on the card, then check which cashback category that transaction lands in on your next statement or in the banking app. If it credits at the dining rate, the terminal is coded the way you hoped; if it credits at base rate, it is not — and no amount of arguing with the bank changes the code. For a chain with several branches, verify per outlet, because franchisees register their own terminals.
For the cards we rank highest for everyday cashback — dining included — see our best cashback credit cards in Malaysia list.
Stacking Rewards — Dining Card Plus Everything Else
A dining credit card is only one layer, and given how small the caps are, the other layers matter more than most people assume. Experienced F&B spenders in Malaysia stack several at once:
Layer 1 — Credit card cashback Your dining or online card earns its rate at the terminal, up to that card's monthly cap. On the cards in this guide that is between RM10 and RM50 a month.
Layer 2 — Grab rewards, if ordering via Grab GrabPoints accrue on every GrabFood order regardless of which card you use for payment. Accumulate GrabPoints and redeem against future orders or Grab Credits.
Layer 3 — Restaurant loyalty programmes Chains like OldTown White Coffee, Nando's and Starbucks Malaysia run loyalty schemes with stamp or point accumulation. These stack on top of credit card cashback — the card earns at the terminal while your loyalty app accumulates separately.
Layer 4 — Dining aggregator promos Platforms like Eatigo and TableApp run periodic discounts that reduce the base cost before your credit card cashback is applied. A RM80 restaurant bill reduced to RM40, with cashback on the RM40, still beats paying RM80 for a slightly larger rebate.
Once your card hits its monthly cap — which on most of these cards happens early in the month — layers two, three and four are the only ones still earning. That is the practical argument for using them.
Monthly Savings Math
Scenario: urban professional, RM500/month total F&B spend
Split: RM300 at physical restaurants, RM200 via food delivery apps. The table below applies each card's published monthly cap, which is where the earlier version of this guide went wrong.
| Card | Restaurant | Delivery | Monthly total | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No optimisation, base 0.2% | RM0.60 | RM0.40 | RM1.00 | RM12 |
| RHB Cash Back, RM10 per category | RM10.00 | RM10.00 | RM20.00 | RM240 |
| Maybank 2 Gold, weekend Amex spend | RM15.00 | RM10.00 | RM25.00 | RM300 |
| SC Simply Cash, RM20 shared cap | RM20.00 | RM0.40 | RM20.40 | RM245 |
| AmBank Cash Rebate, RM10 per category | RM10.00 | RM10.00 | RM20.00 | RM240 |
| Hong Leong Wise, RM15 cap and 1% online | RM15.00 | RM2.00 | RM17.00 | RM204 |
Three things this table makes obvious:
- The cap beats the rate, every time. Maybank wins on 5% — the lowest headline on this page — because RM50 a month is five times the ceiling most rivals allow. A 15% rate under an RM15 cap cannot catch it.
- The gap between doing nothing and doing anything is RM288 a year. That is the decision worth making. The spread between the best and worst optimised card is RM96.
- Every leading figure here has a condition attached. Maybank's needs weekend timing and American Express acceptance. RHB's needs RM2,500 of total monthly card spend. Standard Chartered's needs a RM96,000 income and survives only while the fee is waived. Check yours before choosing on the number alone.
Standard Chartered's RM245 is a first-year figure. From year two the RM250 annual fee applies, and the grocery-plus-dining cap alone does not cover it.
How to Choose
You order delivery regularly and put RM2,500+ a month on one card: RHB Cash Back. Its 10% on online dining and grocery is the highest published delivery rate here, though the RM10 monthly cap means it is spent by RM100 of orders.
You eat out mainly at weekends, at malls and chains: Maybank 2 Gold. Free card, the largest capped rate in the comparison, 5% on all weekend retail. Confirm your regular restaurants accept American Express first.
You split between restaurants and delivery apps but spend under RM2,500 a month: AmBank Cash Rebate Visa Platinum. Dining and online are separate 10% categories with separate RM10 caps, and the threshold is RM1,500 rather than RM2,500.
Your restaurant spend is weekend-concentrated and around RM100/month: Hong Leong Wise. At that level the RM15 cap is exactly right and the 15% rate is fully usable.
You earn RM96,000+ and will use petrol as well as dining: Standard Chartered Simply Cash — but do the year-two fee arithmetic before you apply.
You want a Shariah-compliant dining card: there is not one in this comparison with an elevated dining category. HSBC Amanah MPower Platinum rewards petrol, groceries and e-wallets instead.
Match the card to how you eat
Weekends, malls and chains → Maybank 2 Gold (free, RM50 cap, check Amex acceptance). Split, under RM2,500/month → AmBank Cash Rebate (two separate RM10 categories). Around RM100/month weekend dining → Hong Leong Wise (15% fully usable under its RM15 cap). High income, petrol too → SC Simply Cash, after the year-two fee maths. Note that RHB's two cards differ sharply: the Cash Back card has dining and online food categories, the Visa Signature has neither. CIMB Cash Rebate and HSBC Amanah MPower have no dining category at all.
For a full comparison of cashback cards across all spending categories — not just dining — see our best cashback credit cards in Malaysia guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does dining cashback apply to GrabFood and Foodpanda?
Usually no. GrabFood, Foodpanda, and ShopeeFood code as online retail, not dining, so a dining-only rate misses them. Two cards cover delivery, both capped at RM10 a month. RHB Cash Back pays 10% on online dining and grocery, naming GrabFood, Foodpanda and DeliverEat directly. AmBank Cash Rebate treats online as its own 10% category. Hong Leong Wise pays just 1% on online spend, and the rest pay the 0.2% base rate.
Which credit card gives the most cashback at restaurants in Malaysia?
On a typical RM300/month of restaurant spend, Maybank 2 Gold returns the most at RM15 a month, because its RM50 cap leaves the full 5% usable. Hong Leong Wise has the higher rate at 15% but pays at most RM15 a month. Compare caps before rates.
Is there a credit card for mamak and kopitiams?
Only if the merchant registered its terminal under a qualifying MCC — usually 5812 or 5814. Informal stalls without POS terminals are cash-only by default. Note that Maybank's 5% sits on the American Express card of the pair, and Amex acceptance at hawker-style merchants is patchier than Visa or Mastercard, so the card that looks best on paper may not be accepted where you eat.
What counts as dining for credit card cashback purposes?
Sit-down restaurants, fast food chains, cafés, food courts, and hotel restaurants that have registered under MCC 5812 or 5814 typically qualify. What does not qualify: grocery stores, food delivery apps (online retail), in-flight food purchases, convenience store food sections, and minimarket purchases. The Merchant Category Code is set by the merchant at terminal registration — it is not based on your description of the transaction.
Can I use a dining credit card for corporate meals?
Yes — cashback accrues on the transaction regardless of the meal's purpose. If you use a personal card for client entertainment and claim the expense back from your employer, the cashback is yours. Use a personal card (not a corporate card) to keep the cashback. Check your company's expense policy on original receipts versus card statements.
The Bottom Line
The best dining credit card in Malaysia is not the one with the highest headline rate — it is the one whose monthly cap you can actually fill, or the one that has no cap at all. Hong Leong Wise publishes 15% and pays at most RM15 a month. Maybank 2 Gold publishes 5% and pays up to RM50, provided you spend at weekends and your restaurants take American Express. RHB Cash Back publishes the highest delivery rate at 10%, and caps it at RM10 a month.
Run the numbers on your actual last three months of food spending. Categorise it: restaurant versus delivery versus grocery, weekday versus weekend. Match that to the card structure and the cap, in that order. Apply once with a clean credit report — check your CTOS/CCRIS status before you start. Pay the full statement balance every month.
On a RM500/month F&B budget, a well-matched card returns roughly RM200 to RM300 a year. That is real money for a decision that takes 20 minutes — but it is a smaller number than most dining-card marketing implies, and you should know that before you apply.
Correction, 13 September 2026. For three days this guide ranked RHB Cash Back first and told readers its online food delivery category was uncapped. That was wrong, and the error was ours rather than the bank's. RHB's rate table has six columns — petrol, dining, utilities, grocery, online dining/grocery, and other spend — and six monthly cap figures beneath them: RM10, RM10, RM10, RM10, RM10, and Unlimited. The "Unlimited" belongs to the final column, other spend, which earns 0.2%. We read it against the column beside it and published a ceiling-free 10% food rate that does not exist. Online dining and grocery is capped at RM10 a month like every other category on that card, so the 10% rate is exhausted at RM100 of delivery orders. The figure we gave for it, RM360 a year on a RM500/month food budget, is really RM240 — the same as AmBank and below Maybank 2 Gold. The card has been moved from first to third, the savings table and chart recomputed, and the claim that this market contains an uncapped food rate removed throughout. Nothing else on this page depended on it. The underlying reason the card belongs in the guide at all still holds: RHB Cash Back does have both a dining category and a named online food category, which RHB Visa Signature has not, and its 10% is still the highest published delivery rate here. Source: RHB Cash Back Credit Card product page, cashback and monthly capping table, read from the page itself on 13 September 2026.
Amendment, 10 September 2026. This guide did not include RHB Cash Back at all, which was an omission worth fixing — it is a separate product from RHB Visa Signature, and unlike the Visa Signature it has both a dining category and a named online food delivery category covering GrabFood, Foodpanda and DeliverEat. It was added on this date, and the ranking, comparison table, savings table and chart were reworked to include it. The figures published for it on that date were wrong; see the correction above. Note that RHB Cash Back and RHB Visa Signature are different products — the earlier amendment below concerns the Visa Signature, which still has no dining category.
Amendment, 2 September 2026. Every card in this guide was re-checked against the issuing bank's own published terms, and all seven rows of the comparison table were wrong. The most serious errors: RHB Visa Signature was ranked first for dining on the basis of a 5% dining rate, an RM50 monthly cap and an RM24,000 minimum annual income — RHB has no dining category at all, the cap is RM30, and the published minimum income is RM80,000, more than three times what this guide stated. HSBC Amanah MPower Platinum's 8% was described as applying to dining; it applies to petrol, groceries and e-wallets. CIMB Cash Rebate Platinum has no dining category. Hong Leong Wise was given as 8% with an RM98 non-waivable fee and a cap "typically RM50"; the published rate is 15% on weekend dining restricted to MCC 5811, 5812 and 5814, the cap is RM15 a month, and a first-year fee waiver exists. Standard Chartered Simply Cash was shown as conditionally free; the fee is RM250 with only the first year waived, and the minimum income is RM96,000. Maybank 2 Gold's network was given as "Visa and Mastercard" when the 5% weekend cashback is a benefit of the American Express card of the pair. The savings maths was computed without applying any monthly cap, which produced a headline two-card strategy returning "RM408/year" that no cardholder could have earned; the recomputed, cap-applied figures are RM204 to RM300. The guide has been reordered by attainable return after caps rather than by headline rate, and that ranking is an editorial judgement open to revision. Sources: RHB, Maybank, Hong Leong Bank, CIMB, HSBC Amanah, Standard Chartered and AmBank published card terms, retrieved 2 September 2026.
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