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Ben Ben
Restaurant

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Szechuan & Cantonese Cuisine

A modest, longtime family-run spot in Ottawa’s Chinatown, serving a wide selection of Sichuan- and Cantonese-style dishes. Serving savoury dishes for over 20 years.

Call 613-238-5022 Directions View full menu

4.1416 Google reviews
Open daily
11:30 AM – 8:00 PM
Dine-in
& pickup

Ben Ben Restaurant’s white backlit sign with red letters and green script, above a window with a red and blue neon OPEN sign, on a red-brick front — Photo: Google Maps listing (customer photo)

From the kitchen

A taste of the menu. The full menu runs to 22 sections, from appetizers and soups to sizzling plates, noodles and congee.

Starters & soups

Spring Roll$2.25
Vegetarian Spring Roll$2.35
Egg Roll$4.70
Ben Ben Platter for 2: BBQ pork, duck, chicken and shrimp$11.50
Hot & Sour Soup for 1 · sm $11.50 / med $15.50 / lg $20.45$4.95
Won Ton Soup for 1 · sm $21.50 / med $25.50 / lg $30.45$16.95
Wonton Noodle Soup$9.95

Chicken & duck

Chicken in Lemon Sauce$13.50
Golden Bar-B-Que Duck half $15.50 / whole $25.00$15.50
Roast Chicken (Crispy Skin) half $12.95 / whole $23.00$12.95
General Tao’s Chicken$16.50
Kung Po Spicy Chicken$14.95

Beef & sizzling plates

Spicy Tingly Beef$12.95
Szechuan Spiced Beef$15.50
Sizzling Steak with Black Pepper$17.50
Sizzling Spicy Beef with Eggplant$14.75
Ma Po Bean Curd$12.50

Rice, noodles & congee

Shrimp Fried Rice$10.95
Yang Chow Fried Rice$12.95
Singapore Fried Vermicelli$9.95
Dry Fried Rice Noodle with Beef$9.95
Ben Ben Congee$8.25

Prices from their online menu; to be confirmed. Where a dish comes in several sizes, the other sizes are listed under its name.

All 22 menu sections

Appetizers · Vegetable Dishes · Soup · Chicken · Duck · Beef · Pork · Seafood · Bean Curd · Bird’s Nest · Szechuan Dishes · Casseroles · Sizzling Plates · Fried Noodle · Noodle Soup · Rice Noodle Soup · Vermicelli Noodle Soup · Wor Mein · Lo Mein · Rice Dishes · Congee · Dessert Cookies

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Pickup orders: call 613-238-5022. Delivery: to be confirmed.

Straight from guests’ phones

Generous plates, made to share

Crispy noodles topped with shrimp, scallops, chicken, broccoli and carrots — Crispy noodles with seafood & vegetables · customer photo

A round table with a lazy Susan full of shared dishes, fried rice, noodles and teapots — A full table to share · customer photo

Fried rice with shrimp in a takeout container — Fried rice, to go · customer photo

Wide rice noodles stir-fried with beef, onion and bean sprouts in a takeout box — Fried rice noodles with beef, to go · customer photo

A steaming sizzling plate of beef and vegetables on a wooden board — Sizzling plate · customer photo

Photos: Google Maps listing (customer photos). Dish names describe what’s in each photo; exact menu items to be confirmed.

Ben Ben’s dining room with red tablecloths, round tables with glass lazy Susans and a small red lantern — Photo: Google Maps listing (customer photo)

Family-owned & operated

Pull up a chair in Chinatown

Red tablecloths, round tables with lazy Susans, little red lanterns overhead. Ben Ben is a modest, longtime neighbourhood restaurant where the portions are generous and dishes are made for sharing around the lazy Susan.

Guests rave about the generous portions, the wonton soup, the duck, the lemon chicken, the hot and sour soup, the shrimp fried rice, the spicy beef, the spring rolls and authentic Cantonese cooking.

4.1 stars from 416 Google reviews
Dine-in and pickup
Wheelchair-accessible seating and restroom

Review themes paraphrased from public Google reviews; rating as shown on their Google Maps listing, October 2026. Delivery to be confirmed.

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Visit Ben Ben

697 Somerset St W
Ottawa, ON K1R 6P5 (Chinatown)

613-238-5022

info@benbenrestaurant.com (email to be confirmed)

Hours

Every day 11:30 AM – 8:00 PM

Holiday hours may differ; please call ahead.

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