Lotus Cafe at Boca Chica Menu – Brownsville, TX

Type : Asian restaurant

Location : Brownsville, TX

Spacious Chinese eatery with take-out options dishing up traditional eats in modest environs. Based on 820 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.2 stars. Price $$

✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No-contact delivery

Lotus Cafe at Boca Chica 78521

Address:
2489 Boca Chica Blvd, Brownsville, TX 78521

Phone: (956) 982-1888

Website:

Hours

Wednesday 11 AM–10 PM
Thursday 11 AM–10 PM
Friday 11:30 AM–10:30 PM
Saturday 11:30 AM–10:30 PM
Sunday 11:30 AM–10:30 PM
Monday 11 AM–10 PM
Tuesday 11 AM–10 PM

Menu

MONDAY LUNCH SPECIALS
Sweet & Sour Chicken $8.50
Hunan Beef $8.50
Chicken Almond $8.50
TUESDAY LUNCH SPECIALS
Sweet & Sour Pork $8.50
Broccoli Beef $8.50
Chicken Zucchini $8.50
WEDNESDAY LUNCH SPECIALS
Sweet & Sour Chicken $8.50
Shrimp Vegetables $8.50
Szechuan Pork $8.50
THURSDAY LUNCH SPECIALS
Sweet & Sour Pork $8.50
Broccoli Beef $8.50
Chicken Almond $8.50
FRIDAY LUNCH SPECIALS
Sweet & Sour Chicken $8.50
Shrimp Vegetables $8.50
Hunan Beef $8.50
SATURDAY LUNCH SPECIALS
Triple Crown $8.50
Chicken with Vegetables $8.50
Szechuan Pork $8.50
APPETIZERS (頭檯)
1. Egg Roll (2) $3.75
2. Edamame
Boiled green soybeans.		 $4.95
3. Vegetable Spring Roll (2) $4.25
4. Crab Cheese Puffs (6) $5.95
5. BBQ Ribs (4) $7.95
6. Shrimp Dumplings (6) $7.95
7. Potstickers (8)
With meat.		 $6.95
8. Steamed Dumplings (8)
With meat.		 $6.95
9. Spicy Crispy Calamari Rings $8.75
10. Shrimp Tempura (4) $7.95
SOUPS (湯水)
Soup of the Day $2.80
Wonton Soup $2.80
Hot & Sour Soup $3.75
Egg Drop Corn Soup $3.75
Shrimp Wonton Soup
Shrimp, beef, chicken, and pork with fried wonton soup.		 $9.95
Tofu with Green Vegetables Soup $8.50
Seafood Chowder $12.95
HOUSE GOURMET SPECIALS (拿手菜)
1. General Tso’s Jumbo Shrimp
We’re sure you’ll enjoy this dish with (10) delectable prawns. Served with steamed broccoli.		 $14.95
2. The Four Seasons
An inviting combination of shrimp, beef, chicken, scallops, and green vegetables. You’re sure to enjoy!		 $15.50
3. Phoenix Chicken
Lightly battered and fried chicken breast, stuffed with shrimp, crab meat, and snow peas. This succulent chicken is served on a bed of crispy vegetables in our house brown sauce.		 $13.00
4. Crispy Skin, Roasted Streaky Pork
Selected quality pork belly marinated in Chinese spices and roasted to the skin till crispy, meat tender and juicy. Sliced and served with roasted pork sauce and (4) lotus leaf buns.		 $13.95
5. Divine Marriage
Beef steak and scallops with a hot sizzling plate.		 $14.50
6. Volcano Jumbo Shrimp
Deep dried 8 pieces of Jumbo Shrimp, topped with a spicy mayonnaise. Served with a bed of crispy noodles.		 $14.50
7. Karaage Chicken
Crispy Japanese Karaage Chicken with shrimp flavored chips, served with house BBQ and sesame dipping sauce.		 $12.95
8. Teriyaki Specialties
Sautéed with broccoli, mushroom and carrots in our house special Teriyaki sauce. Serve on a sizzling hot plate.		 $12.50
9. Peking Duck
Selected young duck, roasted in the oven until it becomes golden brown. Our Peking duck is served with well-cut slices, shredded cucumber, and scallions, then rolled with plum sauce with lotus leaf buns.		 $25.00
MAKI SUSHI (壽司)
1. California Roll
Crab meat, avocado, wrapped with masago.		 $6.95
2. Philadelphia Roll
Cucumber, cream cheese, wrapped with sesame.		 $6.95
3. Cucumber Roll
Cucumber wrapped with minced seaweed.		 $6.25
4. Texas Roll
Satay beef, cream cheese, avocado, wrapped Uramaki style with sesame.		 $7.75
5. Alaska Roll
Crab meat, avocado, smoked salmon, wrapped with sesame.		 $7.75
6. Crispy Roll
Seafood cake with cream cheese, rolled with light butter, deep-fried, served with eel sauce.		 $6.95
7. The Favorite Roll
Shrimp, avocado, cream cheese, wrapped with masago.		 $8.25
8. Jalapeño Roll
Snow crab meat, avocado, and finely chopped jalapeño, wrapped with masago.		 $8.25
9. FBI Roll
Crab meat, avocado, cream cheese, and sesame, wrapped with unagi eel and eel sauce.		 $8.25
10. Tempura Roll
Shrimp tempura with cream cheese, cucumber, rolled Uramaki style, with eel sauce.		 $8.50
11. Eel Roll
Unagi eel, cucumber, and masago, rolled Uramaki style, with eel sauce.		 $8.75
12. Spicy Salmon Roll
Smoked salmon, shrimp, and avocado wrapped with a dash of Shichimi (Japanese 7 spice seasoning pepper).		 $8.95
13. Caterpillar Roll
Unagi eel, cucumber, cream cheese, sesame wrapped in avocado and topped with tasty eel sauce.		 $8.95
14. Combo Rolls (California & Texas Roll)
#1 and #4, (2) rolls served in (1) plate. It saves a bit!		 $12.95
PRIX FIXE PLATES (和菜套餐)
Sweet & Sour Sauce
Choice of chicken or pork.		 $9.25
Hunan Chicken $9.25
Chicken Almond $9.25
Jalapeño Chicken $9.25
Fresh Mushrooms
Served with your choice of chicken, beef or shrimp.		 $9.25
Fresh Zucchini with Chicken $9.25
Fresh String Beans
Served with your choice of chicken, roasted pork, or beef.		 $9.25
Kung Pao Chicken $9.25
Shredded Pork Szechuan Style $9.25
Eggplant in Garlic Sauce
Served with your choice of chicken, roasted pork, or beef.		 $9.25
Chow Mein
No noodles – mixed celery, napa cabbage, bean sprouts, and onion only. Served with your choice of chicken, roasted pork, or beef.		 $9.25
Lo Mein
Chinese soft noodles with your choice of chicken, roasted pork, or beef.		 $9.25
Fried Rice
Served with your choice of chicken, beef, or shrimp.		 $9.25
Triple Crown $9.95
General Tso’s Chicken $9.95
Lemon Chicken $9.95
Hunan Beef $9.95
Broccoli Beef $9.95
Pepper Beef $9.95
Moo Goo Gai Pan $9.95
Cashew Chicken $9.95
Sweet & Sour Shrimp $9.95
Mixed Vegetables
Served with your choice of chicken, beef, or shrimp.		 $9.25
SEAFOOD (海鮮)
1. Sweet & Sour Shirmp $11.95
2. Hunan Shrimp $12.95
3. Shrimp with Mixed Vegetables $12.50
4. Kung Pao Shrimp $12.50
5. Baby Shrimp with Cashews $12.50
6. Shrimp with Lobster Sauce $12.50
7. Scallops with Snow Peas $15.50
8. Hunan Scallops & Shrimp $15.50
9. Triple Crown
Shrimp, chicken, and beef.		 $13.50
10. Seafood Delight $16.50
11. Salmon with Tomato Chili or Lemon Sauce $15.25
12. Tilapia with Tomato Chili or Lemon Sauce $14.95
MEAT (肉類)
1. Moo Shu Pork
With (4) pancakes.		 $11.95
2. Shredded Pork Szechuan Style $9.95
3. Sweet & Sour Pork $9.95
4. Shredded Pork with Garlic Sauce $10.50
4. Spicy Crispy Spare Ribs $11.95
5. Roast Pork with Mixed Vegetables $10.50
6. Broccoli Beef $12.50
7. Pepper Beef $12.50
8. Hunan Beef $12.75
9. Mongolian Beef $12.75
10. Orange Beef Steak $13.50
POULTRY (雞鴨)
1. Sweet & Sour Chicken $10.50
2. Kung Pao Chicken $10.50
3. Moo Goo Gai Pan
Sliced chicken with mushroom.		 $10.95
4. Chicken Almond $10.95
5. Jalapeño Chicken $10.95
6. Broccoli Chicken $11.25
7. Chicken with Mixed Vegetables $11.50
8. Hunan Chicken $11.50
9. Cashew Chicken $11.50
10. Lemon Chicken $11.95
11. General Tso’s Chicken $11.95
12. Orange Chicken $11.95
13. Sesame Chicken $12.25
14. Lotus Crispy Duck
With plum sauce and (4) lotus buns.		 $23.50
VEGETABLES (蔬菜)
1. Fresh Vegetables
Choice of bean-sprout, mushroom, string bean, or zucchini. All sautéed in brown sauce. Served with your choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $11.25
2. Fresh Mushrooms
Sautéed in brown sauce with your choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $11.25
3. Chinese Eggplant in Garlic Sauce
Served with choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $11.25
4. Bamboo Steamer
Steamed mixed vegetables served with choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $10.25
5. Mixed Vegetables
Served with brown sauce.		 $10.25
6. Home Style Tofu
With vegetables		 $10.75
7. Hot & Spicy Tofu
With minced pork.		 $10.25
8. Green Vegetables with Garlic Butter $10.95
RAMEN & NOODLES (拉麵與麵)
1. Lo Mein
Chinese soft noodles. With choice of chicken, roasted pork, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $9.50
2. Chow Fung
Flat rice noodles. With choice of chicken, roasted pork, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $9.95
3. Rice Stick Noodles
With choice of chicken, roasted pork, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $9.95
4. Double Fried Noodles
With choice of chicken, roasted pork, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $9.95
5. Udon Noodle Sautéed Specialty
With choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $10.75
6. Hong Kong Crispy Noodle Specialty
With choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $11.25
7. Phad Thai Noodles
With your choice of chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination. Phad Thai noodles, bean sprouts, chavis, garlic, and chili sautéed in house Phad Thai sauce (sweet, sour, hot, and spicy), and garnished with minced peanuts, lime, and cilantro.		 $10.75
NOODLE SOUP (湯麵)
8. Delicate Noodle Soup
With choice of chicken, vegetable, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $9.50
9. Korean Noodle Soup
With choice of chicken, vegetable, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $9.50
10. Tempura Shrimp Udon Soup
With (4) tempura shrimp.		 $10.95
11. House Ramen Noodle Soup
With choice of chicken, vegetable, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $10.50
12. Traditional Ramen Noodle Soup
Classic Tonkotsu soup broth, with 2 pc. ramen roasted pork ”Chashu”.		 $13.95
RICE, CHOW MEIN & EGG FOO YOUNG (飯、炒麵與蓉蛋)
1. Fried Rice
With soy sauce. With chicken, roasted pork, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $9.50
2. Japanese Fried Rice
With white rice. With chicken, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $10.25
3. Chow Mein
No noodles – mixed celery, napa cabbage, bean sprouts, and onion only. With choice of chicken, roasted pork, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $10.25
4. Egg Foo Young
With choice of chicken, roasted pork, beef, shrimp, or combination.		 $11.25
SIDE DISHES (小菜)
Pancakes (4) $6.25
Lotus Leaf Buns (4) $6.25
Steamed Rice $1.50
Fried Rice $2.95
Sautéed Lo Mein Noodles
Chinese soft noodles.		 $6.50
Sautéed Any Vegetable $7.25
French Fries $4.50
DESSERTS (甜點)
Fried Bananas $4.50
Cheesecake $3.95
Tres Leches Cheese Cake $5.95
BEVERAGES (飲料)
Soft Drinks
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Lemonade, or Iced Tea.		 $2.85
Raspberry Ice $2.85
Soda Can
Coke, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, or Sprite.		 $1.95
Iced Tea $2.85
Coffee $2.85
Bottled Water DASANI ® $1.95
Minute–Maid ® Lemonade $3.50
Juice $3.50

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Reviews

Norma Ramirez
Ordered roast pork eggplant with garlic sauce. Plate is suppose to be spicy. The Chile was in it but twice as much and burnt. Tasted like leftovers mixed with a little bit of fresh ingredients. Roasted pork was good but WAY too much sauce… inedible. Rice was quite dry for fried rice and hot sour soup super thick…. same situation last time and won’t be back to the Boca Chica location. Alton Gloor better. Free Wong tongs were good with the spicy dip. Fiancé like his beef and broccoli and catfish soup.

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jonathan toriz
So great FOOD(chicken fried rice) for sure! You need to find your vibe as far as taste. Service tho I got to admit I do like that they have a great team. One takes your order and one refills and picks up your plates. Biggest issue by far is that the place has a terrible odor!

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Danny Jimenez
I would of gave 5 stars but I didn’t like the fact they used spaghetti noodles instead of ramen noodles other than that everything else was really good

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Connie Austin
Husband had Triple Crown (chicken, pork & shrimp). I had Orange chicken. Meals came with fried/steamed rice, egg roll and soup. Portions were generous and tasty, service was good, and price was great. However, I tasted no orange in the Orange chicken. The had small, dried out slices of orange rind.

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Jordan Flowers
This place used to be really great! The food was always good and fresh but lately it feels as if it has gone down hill. Foods cold, taste like its been sitting out for a while, fried noodles are small little crumbs instead of full noodles. They give you plastic cutlery instead of silverware, stale rice and noodles. Been coming here since i was a little girl and it used to be my favorite. To see it like this is sad 🙁

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Island Judy
Lotus Cafe is a great experience and not costly.

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NemiDaGr8
Food might not always be the best Asian place you’ve ever eaten but the culture they show there is awesome The service does take a little just for one order. Food isn’t all that good either but still a good cheap place to take your family

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Eric M
This place has the best Hot and Sour Soup! My go to dish is the Chicken and Beef Kung Pao with a side of garlic noodles! Also, the Limon Chicken Wing style (an off menu item) is pretty good if you like Spicy food! If you liked the Lotus on Price Rd, you will like this place!

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rolando lopez
The food at this place its delicious.

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Monica
Love the Delicate Noodle Soup with the complimentary fried noodles and the Hot wings. Our server Gloria is very attentive, she was great.

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