Chicken Fried Rice in Ottawa

8 restaurants in Ottawa list chicken fried rice on their menus. The cheapest is Wan's Chinese Food at $9.80. The typical price across town is $13.62, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Deccan Delights, so the two ends of the list are $9.19 apart, which is 94% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken fried rice in 7 other areas and compare them all on chicken fried rice across Canada. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Ottawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.99 at Silver Spoon in Mississauga, ON, and the highest best price is $12.99 in Regina, SK. The nearest area with it is Brampton, about 367 km away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken fried rice in Ottawa? Wan's Chinese Food, at $9.80 on 3500 Fallowfield Road. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.19.

What should chicken fried rice cost here? About $13.62 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Brampton, about 367 km away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $0.20 more than 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.