Kuala Lampur, Aug. 19 -- Everyone is entitled to an opinion. I am increasingly unconvinced though that every opinion deserves to be important.

There is a difference, and somewhere in our enthusiasm for the democratisation of information, we seem to have forgotten it.

I have spent most of my adult life working with food. And one of the stranger developments I have watched over the past decade is the transformation of the diner into the reviewer.

Not simply someone who eats, experiences and forms an opinion. That has always existed, and it should. But someone who feels an almost reflexive compulsion to publicly assess, score and pronounce judgement upon what they have experienced.

Dinner is no longer simply dinner.

It must be documente...