Now in early access · Malaysia first

The food feed.
Threads, but tastier.

Bites is the social network for what you eat. Post real meals from real restaurants. Rate them. Repost the gems. Find your next favorite spot — backed by people who actually ate there. With the most honest halal transparency of any food app.

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🇲🇾 Built in Cyberjaya · Food-first · No fake reviews.
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Aisha Rahman
@aisha.eats · 2m
📍 Ahmads Fast Food HALAL
★★★★★ 5.0
Crispiest cheese skirt I've had in KL 🤯
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Danish Adam
@danishadam · 1h
📍 Coffeeliate HALAL
★★★★★ 5.0
🔥 1,200 bites today
⭐ Halal-verified
Why Bites

Built for food. Nothing else.

Instagram is for influencers. Yelp is for complaints. Threads is for everything. Bites is just for what you ate.

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Every post = a meal

No off-topic rants, no thirst traps, no crypto hot-takes. If it's not about food you ate, it doesn't belong on Bites.

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Ratings that mean something

Every bite is a 1–5 star rating tied to a real menu item. We aggregate those into restaurant scores you can actually trust.

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Restaurant pages, built by you

The community builds a living database of every restaurant. Photos, ratings, vibes, and the dishes worth ordering — all in one place.

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Halal transparency

Three-tier status — Certified, Declared, or Not Halal — surfaced on every post. The local warung you trust counts, not just the ones with cert plaques. Filter however strict you want.

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Re-bite anything

Loved a friend's discovery? Re-bite it to your feed in one tap. Best dishes spread the way they should — through people you trust.

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Fast and tiny

No video bloat. No 15-second loading screens. No algorithmic noise. Just food, fast.

The lineup

Why not just use Instagram?

Because Instagram doesn't know what halal means. And Yelp doesn't have your homies.

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Halal transparency (3-tier)
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Real menu item tags
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Star rating per post
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Repost / share to feed
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Halal
transparency.
Not
gatekeeping.

3-tier
Certified · Declared · Not Halal — community-driven, honest, and useful for everyone

The local warung deserves a fair shot.

Most halal food in Malaysia doesn't have a cert plaque. The mamak you grew up with. The kak Long warung at the corner. They're halal. We're not going to pretend they're not.

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    Halal Certified — verified by religious authority (JAKIM, MUI, MUIS, IFANCA). Cert authority shown on every post.
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    Halal Declared — owner or community declared halal, no formal cert. The honest way to recognize 70% of local halal food.
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    Pork-Free, Not Halal, Unknown — full transparency, no fake claims. You decide your level of strictness.
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    Filter however strict you want. Certified-only for the strict. Certified-or-Declared for most. All for foodies. One tap, sticky.
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    Built by Muslims, for everyone who eats food. 🇲🇾 Made in Cyberjaya. Going GCC + USA next.

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Get early access on iOS, Android, and web. For everyone who eats food. Halal, not halal, doesn't matter — your bites are welcome. Founding members get a verified badge for life.

Founders: Coach Fadzil + the Brainy Bunch crew · Shah Alam, Malaysia