The Direct Index
Report · Hong Kong · scanned 2026-10-20

Basmati

basmati.hk is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Basmati directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-20. Report a mistake

MTR Ext C, San Toi Building, 137-139 Connaught Rd Central, 000000, Hong Kong · +85294203094

Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes

WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near Basmati that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Basmati's website. It can read what Basmati offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through turbojet.com.hk.

81.5%

53 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Hong Kong and named 87 places. Basmati wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Basmati compares

Where it stands

89 of 1,491 in Hong Kong

Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Morton's The Steakhouse B, Rajasthan Rifles B. Just below: Hong Kong Parkview Teppanyaki B, Juno B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain87%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML75%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)92%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours25%yes
Have an llms.txt43%yes

The top 10% are the 153 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 108,921 sites58%29%81.5%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Central Indian Restaurant indian273 mCno
Hotal Colombo indian580 mCyes
Chaska Hong Kong indian651 mByes
The Indian Chamber Of Commerce 香港印度商會 indian698 mDno
New Punjab Club indian870 mCyes
Pondi indian1.2 kmByes
Kesar Fusion Bar & Grill indian2.2 kmFno
Hello India indian2.3 kmCyes
活蘭印度素食 Woodlands Indian Vegetarian Restaurant curry, indian2.3 kmAyes
喜瑪拉雅餐館 Himalaya Restaurant indian, nepali2.4 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Basmati in Hong Kong

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Hong Kong1,49145%17%81.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Hong Kong29854%22%81.5%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Hong Kong

Eatology A 100% · 鏞記酒家 Yung Kee Restaurant A 100% · Cantina A 95.4% · Dim Sum Library A 95.4% · Hutong A 95.4%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Booking through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 7th of 1,491 in Hong Kong, up from 89th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Hong Kong. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact/: nothing new; menu page /menu-for-authentic-indian-restaurant-in-hong-kong/: nothing new

Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Basmati

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/basmati.hk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/hong-kong/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menubasmati.hk/menu-for-authentic-indian-restaurant-in-hong-kong html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+85294203094

Stable links that count: /go/basmati.hk/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
no
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
no
MCP server card
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes