Edamame in Vancouver

9 restaurants in Vancouver list edamame on their menus. The cheapest is Ryu Katsu and Ramen bar at $5.00. The typical price across town is $7.50, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Tojos, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Vancouver is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Kazoku Ramen in Edmonton, AB, and the highest best price is $5.95 in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Edmonton, about 830 km away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest edamame in Vancouver? Ryu Katsu and Ramen bar, at $5.00 on 2120 West Broadway. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should edamame cost here? About $7.50 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Vancouver that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Edmonton, 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.