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title: What an AI agent reads on Basil Express · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/basilexpress.ca/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Basil Express

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [basilexpress.ca](https://basilexpress.ca/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

7,549

characters of text without JavaScript

Restaurant

structured data for the business

1

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Basil Express | Vietnamese Restaurant Calgary | Best Pho · language en-US. First 1,800 of 7,549 characters:

```
Basil Express | Vietnamese Restaurant Calgary | Best Pho Skip to content Home Menu About Location Home Menu About Location Basil Express - Ultimate Pho & Fine Vietnamese Authentic Vietnamese Flavours, Made Fresh Every Day. View MENU Featured Dishes Made with love, served with passion. B10 Bun Bo Ga Tom Sate (Spicy) $23.00 Basil Sate Combo S1 Banh Mi Dac Biet Ultimate Sub (Spicy) $13.95 French Baguette served with Sate Beef & Sate Chicken, Mayo, Cheese, Pickled Carrots, Cucumber & Cilantro PH5 Pho Tai Bo Vien Rare Beef & Beef Balls Soup $20.00 Noodle Soup with Rare Beef & Beef Balls PH1 Pho Sate Bo Beef Sate Soup (Spicy) $21.50 Mekong-style beef saté in a spicy coconut milk broth, contains peanut sauce. Food Menu A Menu Worth Returning For Appetizers Pho - Noodle Soup Subs Bun - Vermicelli Com - Rice Appetizers Fresh rolls, fried rolls, wings, and more to start your meal. A1 Goi Cuon Salad Rolls $13.00 Choice of Shrimp, Beef or Chicken A2 Cha Gio Heo Pork Spring Rolls $12.00 A3 Cha Gio Chay Vegetarian Spring Rolls $12.00 A4 Canh Ga Chien Chicken Wings $13.95 (Salt & Pepper/Spicy Garlic) A5 Wonton Chien Deep Fried Wontons $13.95 Pho - Noodle Soup Slow-simmered broth with fresh noodles, from classic rare beef to our signature spicy saté soups. PH1 Pho Sate Bo Beef Sate Soup (Spicy) $21.50 Mekong-style beef saté in a spicy coconut milk broth, contains peanut sauce. PH2 Pho Sate Ga Chicken Sate Soup (Spicy) $21.50 Mekong-style chicken saté in a spicy coconut milk broth, contains peanut sauce. PH3 Pho Sate Hai San Seafood Sate Soup (Spicy) $23.00 Mekong-style seafood saté in a spicy coconut milk broth, contains peanut sauce. PH4 Pho Tai Rare Beef Soup $20.00 Noodle Soup with Rare Beef PH5 Pho Tai Bo Vien Rare Beef & Beef Balls Soup $20.00 Noodle Soup with Rare Beef & Beef Bal
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | Restaurant |
| Name | Basil Express - Ultimate Pho & Fine Vietnamese |
| Telephone | +18254140078 |
| Address | yes |
| Opening hours | yes |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | Vietnamese |
| JSON-LD blocks | 2 (Article, ImageObject, OpeningHoursSpecification, Organization, Person, PostalAddress) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found; only a phone number (+18254140078). An agent has nothing to act on.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```