Edamame in Edmonton

3 restaurants in Edmonton list edamame on their menus. The cheapest is Kazoku Ramen at $5.00. The typical price across town is $6.20, and the dearest we found is $6.80 at Dorinku Osaka, so the two ends of the list are $1.80 apart, which is 36% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track edamame in 4 other areas and compare them all on edamame across Canada. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so Edmonton is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Ryu Katsu and Ramen bar in Vancouver, BC, and the highest best price is $5.95 in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Vancouver, about 830 km away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest edamame in Edmonton? Kazoku Ramen, at $5.00 on 16518 100 Avenue NW. The same dish reaches $6.80 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.80.

What should edamame cost here? About $6.20 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Edmonton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Vancouver, about 830 km away, where the best price is $5.00. That is the same as the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.