Chicken Karaage in Victoria

3 restaurants in Victoria list chicken karaage on their menus. The cheapest is Bimi Express Market at $6.95. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Roll & Roll by Nubo, so the two ends of the list are $5.05 apart, which is 73% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track chicken karaage in 1 other area and compare them all on chicken karaage across Canada. The typical price there runs $10.50 at the median, so Victoria is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.50 at Sushi Maro in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Vancouver, about 284 km away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken karaage in Victoria? Bimi Express Market, at $6.95. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.05.

What should chicken karaage cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Victoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Vancouver, about 284 km away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $1.55 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.