Shrimp Fried Rice in Ottawa

7 restaurants in Ottawa list shrimp fried rice on their menus. The cheapest is Chinhon Restaurant at $13.95. The typical price across town is $15.50, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Tumeric, so the two ends of the list are $8.05 apart, which is 58% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp fried rice in 4 other areas and compare them all on shrimp fried rice across Canada. The typical price there runs $17.00 at the median, so Ottawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.99 at Thong La's Restaurant in Abbotsford, BC, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Brampton, ON. The nearest area with it is Brampton, about 367 km away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest shrimp fried rice in Ottawa? Chinhon Restaurant, at $13.95 on 6179 Perth Street. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.05.

What should shrimp fried rice cost here? About $15.50 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 3 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 $14.99. That is $1.04 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.