# China Bowl: Agent-Direct Score C (60%) Site: https://www.chinabowl.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/chinabowl.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-18 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) China Bowl is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open the website of China Bowl. It can read what China Bowl offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through etakeawaymax.co.uk. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.chinabowl.co.uk/menu/# - Phone: +44 161 969 3669 ## What to fix first - Prices: 19 prices on the site, the middle one £6.00 ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **19 prices on the landing page, the middle one £6.00.** - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # China Bowl > restaurant (chinese) in Washway Road 91, Manchester. Phone +44 161 969 3669. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.chinabowl.co.uk/menu/# ## About - Website: https://www.chinabowl.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. ## Where it stands 189 of 370 in Manchester. Top 51% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 87% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 58% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 29% | no | Nearest places in the index: Cowtown Grill (A, 19 m, https://directindex.org/r/cowtown-grill.com); The Flamin' Chicken (D, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/the-flamin-chicken.co.uk); Turkish Grill (B, 252 m, https://directindex.org/r/turkishgrillsale.com); Petisco (B, 567 m, https://directindex.org/r/petisco.co.uk); Gonbay (F, 592 m, https://directindex.org/r/gonbay.uk); Lucky Wok (C, 614 m, https://directindex.org/r/luckywoktakeaway.co.uk); Emilio's (A, 735 m, https://directindex.org/r/emilios.online); Golden Bowl (B, 753 m, https://directindex.org/r/mygoldenbowl.co.uk); Ouvra Indian Kitchen (A, 779 m, https://directindex.org/r/ouvra.uk); Pinocchio's (C, 798 m, https://directindex.org/r/pinocchios-sale.co.uk). ## What assistants answer Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included. Asked 13 everyday questions about Manchester, the assistants named 90 places; China Bowl was not among them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester/recommended See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/chinabowl.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like China Bowl in Manchester | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 370 | 57% | 38% | 60% | The best of the businesses of the same kind in Manchester: Emilio's (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/emilios.online); Pasha Turkish Grill (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/pashagrill1.co.uk); Wagamama (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/wagamama.com); Olio (A 97.5%, https://directindex.org/r/olioflames.co.uk); Ban Di Bul (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/bandibul.co.uk). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 95.4%: 7th of 370 in Manchester, up from 189th. ## The direct record What agents get for China Bowl, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/chinabowl.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.chinabowl.co.uk/menu/# (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +44 161 969 3669 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/chinabowl.co.uk/menu ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/chinabowl.co.uk - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/chinabowl.co.uk/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/chinabowl.co.uk/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=chinabowl.co.uk&force=1