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title: What an AI agent reads on The East Chinese Restaurant · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/theeast.com.au/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on The East Chinese Restaurant

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 [theeast.com.au](http://www.theeast.com.au/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

2,583

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Home - The East · language en-CA. First 1,800 of 2,583 characters:

```
Home - The East Home Menus About Gallery Book Now The East Sydney&#39;s leading Chinese restaurant by the Opera House is open! About Us The East is Sydney’s leading fine dining Chinese restaurant by the Opera House, Circular Quay. With both indoor and outdoor seating with a view of the Sydney Harbor Bridge, we proudly serve authentic Chinese cuisine, offering a diverse and delicious menu inspired by rich Chinese history. Our menu is very extensive, with dishes that are hot and powerful to those that are more mild and subtle. Whether you’re craving sweet and sour flavors, or steamed natural aromas, or perhaps exotic herbs and spices, The East has dishes that will tantalize your taste buds. Open 7 days a week including public holidays. Trading hours Lunch: 12pm-3pm(Mon-Thurs) 12pm-5pm (Fri-Sun) Dinner: 5pm-9:30pm (Sun-Thurs) 5pm-10:30pm (Fri-Sat) 10% surcharge for Saturdays and Sundays &amp; 15% surcharge for public holidays. Our Menu A range of culinary delights to suit every palate View Our MenusView Our Menus Our Reviews “Loved it! Brought my family of five and we were seated on the esplanade with amazing views of the bridge and opera house - during Vivid Sydney no less. The food is spectacular; highly recommend the soft shell crab, XO Vermicelli Prawns, and shark fin soup (the best we had ever tasted by far). Add to that lightning quick and friendly service and we had an incredible night. The East should be listed with the bridge and opera house as a can&#39;t miss stop in Sydney!” Guillaume Delépine “Without a doubt our favourite place to eat in Sydney! Melt in your mouth salt and pepper squid and they still cook me my favourite dish even though they removed it from their menu a few years ago! Can&#39;t rate them highly enough!!!” Bek Hosking “I have never been disappointed with thi
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | a menu or price-list page in HTML theeast.com.au/menus/ |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (SearchAction, WebSite) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [theeast.com.au/contact/](https://theeast.com.au/contact/) | booking | the business's own site |
| [www.opentable.com.au/widget/reservation/loader?rid=59627&type=sta](https://www.opentable.com.au/widget/reservation/loader?rid=59627&amp;#038;type=standard&amp;#038;theme=standard&amp;#038;color=1&amp;#038;dark=false&amp;#038;iframe=true&amp;#038;domain=comau&amp;#038;lang=en-AU&amp;#038;newtab=false&amp;#038;ot_source=Restaurant%20website&amp;#038;cfe=true) | booking | opentable, acting for the business |

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```json
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```
