Bukan sahaja harga ayam di kedai itu murah, malah baki yang diberi pun betul.

It means not only ... but also / in fact ....

So the sentence is built like this:

• Bukan sahaja harga ayam di kedai itu murah = Not only is the price of chicken at that shop cheap
• malah baki yang diberi pun betul = but also / in fact the change given is correct too

This is a common Malay structure for adding a second positive point.

In this fixed pattern, Malay uses bukan sahaja.

Even though tidak is often used to negate adjectives and verbs, bukan sahaja is a set expression meaning not only.

So learners should remember it as a chunk:

• bukan sahaja ... malah ...
• bukan saja ... tetapi juga ...

You usually do not replace bukan with tidak in this pattern.

They mean the same thing here: only / just.

• sahaja = more formal or standard
• saja = more colloquial

So these are both possible:

• Bukan sahaja ...
• Bukan saja ...

In careful writing, sahaja is often preferred.

It means the price of chicken or chicken prices.

Malay often puts nouns together without of:

• harga ayam = price of chicken
• harga buku = price of books / the price of the book, depending on context
• kedai ayam = chicken shop / poultry shop, depending on context

Here, harga ayam di kedai itu means the price of chicken at that shop.

Because it tells you where that chicken price applies: at that shop.

So the phrase breaks down like this:

• harga ayam = the price of chicken
• di kedai itu = at that shop

Together:

• harga ayam di kedai itu = the price of chicken at that shop

This is a normal Malay word order. Malay often places location phrases after the noun phrase they describe.

Malay often leaves out the verb to be in simple descriptive sentences.

So:

• harga ayam di kedai itu murah literally: the price of chicken at that shop cheap natural English: the price of chicken at that shop is cheap

The same happens in:

• Rumah itu besar = That house is big
• Dia rajin = He/She is hardworking
• Baki itu betul = The change is correct

This is very normal Malay grammar.

Here, baki means change in the money sense: the money returned after you pay.

So in this sentence:

• baki yang diberi = the change that was given

Be careful: baki can also mean remainder / what is left over, depending on context.

Examples:

• Baki duit = remaining money / change
• Baki makanan = leftover food

In a shop context, baki usually means change.

Yang diberi means that is given or more naturally in English here, that was given.

Breakdown:

• yang = a relative marker, like that / which
• diberi = given (passive form)

So:

• baki yang diberi = the change that was given

Malay often uses passive forms when the doer is unknown, unimportant, or obvious from context. Here, we know the shopkeeper gave the change, so Malay does not need to say it directly.

A more explicit version could be:

• baki yang diberikan oleh penjual = the change that was given by the seller

But the original is shorter and more natural.

Here pun adds the sense of also / too / even.

So:

• baki yang diberi pun betul = the change given is also correct or = even the change given is correct

In this sentence, pun helps connect the second point to the first one.

Compare:

• Dia pandai. Dia rajin pun. = He/She is smart. He/She is hardworking too.
• Makanan itu sedap, murah pun. = The food is delicious, and cheap too.

So pun often gives an additional, slightly emphatic sense.

Yes, betul basically means correct / right.

For baki, it means the amount of change is correct, exact, not short and not too much.

So:

• baki ... betul = the change is correct = the shop gave the right amount of change

This is very natural in Malay.

You might also hear:

• tepat = exact / accurate

For example:

• Bakinya tepat. = The change is exact.

But betul is perfectly normal here.

No. Malah is natural, but other linking expressions are possible.

For example:

• Bukan sahaja harga ayam di kedai itu murah, malah baki yang diberi pun betul.
• Bukan sahaja harga ayam di kedai itu murah, tetapi baki yang diberi pun betul.
• Bukan sahaja harga ayam di kedai itu murah, tetapi juga baki yang diberi betul.

Nuance:

• malah often sounds like indeed / what's more / in fact
• tetapi juga matches English but also more directly

So malah adds a nice emphatic, polished feel.

It sounds neutral to fairly polished, especially because of:

• sahaja instead of saja
• malah
• the passive phrase yang diberi

It would fit well in writing, reviews, or careful speech.

A more casual version might be:

• Bukan saja harga ayam kat kedai tu murah, baki yang dia bagi pun betul.

Changes:

• sahaja → saja
• di → kat (colloquial)
• itu → tu
• diberi → dia bagi (more spoken)

Both are understandable, but the original sounds more standard.

A very literal translation would be:

• Not only the price of chicken at that shop is cheap, in fact the change that was given too is correct.

But that is not natural English.

A better natural translation would be:

• Not only is the chicken at that shop cheap, but the change they give is correct too.
• Not only are the chicken prices at that shop cheap, but the change they give is correct too.

This is a good reminder that Malay and English often organize information differently, even when the meaning is the same.