Recommendations help us see where precinct notes are thin. They do not become scores. We may never write the room’s name. The point is the map, not a new directory.
If you ate well, tell us the city, the precinct, and the kind of kitchen. Skip the star. Skip the rumour about the owner. A method you learned at the table is more useful than a rave.
What makes a useful tip
Send:
- city and precinct — Little Bourke is not Box Hill; Gouger is not Northbridge
- what you were there for: yum cha, a weeknight, a birthday, a pre-theatre plate
- what you ordered, in plain language
- whether the kitchen felt regional (Cantonese roast, Sichuan, other) or Australian-Chinese family
- whether the table fitted — two-top, round table, they could not seat you
- any allergen or chili conversation that taught a method: they could not separate soy; they could remake a green without oyster sauce; house mild was not mild
If the green had snap, say so. If the fish tasted tired, say so. Those sentences match the tests on the city review pages. They help us see whether a precinct note should talk more about seafood, banquet scale or mixed menus.
Do not send a ranking of ten rooms. Do not send screenshots of someone else’s review. Do not send a request that we “take someone down”. We are not a complaints desk and we are not a scoreboard.
What we do with it
We look for patterns. Several notes that a south-east corridor is doing the Tuesday family work may change how a Melbourne hub weights suburban precincts. A note that a tourist strip is renting the view may sharpen the Gold Coast method. One glowing paragraph about a single night is still welcome; it is just thinner evidence.
We do not publish your message. We do not turn it into a quoted blurb. We do not add the room to a live list.
If you also need a factual correction to a page — a street we have wrong, a method that confused you — say that clearly, or use contact.
How to judge a room yourself
If you are writing because you want a vocabulary for next time, read the review page for that city before or after you send the tip. The tests are consistent: menu region, wok heat, table fit, questions about allergens and fish. Melbourne is the deepest example. Every city has the same job in local weather.
For yum cha mechanics, use the food guide. For a celebration, use the banquet guide. For cooking the Tuesday version, use the recipes hub.
Operators describing their own room should use list your venue so we know the tip is first-hand from the kitchen.
Use the form below. City, precinct, what you ordered, and what the kitchen was trying to be are the useful core. We will not turn it into a star rating.