Lotus Cafe Menu – Brownsville, TX

Type : Chinese restaurant

Location : Brownsville, TX

Unpretentious restaurant serving up a wide range of classic Pan-Asian dishes, including sushi rolls. Based on 402 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 3.9 stars. Price $$

✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Curbside pickup ✔️ No-contact delivery

Lotus Cafe 78526

Address:
1601 E Alton Gloor Blvd, Brownsville, TX 78526

Phone: (956) 550-8488

Website:

Hours

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

Menu

ALL DAY’S SPECIALS
Sweet & Sour Chicken $9.25
Hunan Chicken $9.25
Chicken Almond $9.25
Jalapeno Chicken $9.25
Mixed Vegetables With Chicken $9.25
Fresh Mushrooms With Chicken $9.25
Fresh Zucchini With Chicken $9.25
Fresh String Beans With Chicken $9.25
Kung Pao Chicken $9.25
Szechuan, Shredded Pork $9.25
Eggplant In Garlic Sauce With Chicken $9.25
Eggplant In Garlic Sauce With Shredded Pork $9.25
Chicken Chow Mein $9.25
Roast Pork Chow Mein $9.25
Chicken Lo Mein $9.25
Roast Pork Lo Mein $9.25
Chicken Fried Rice $9.25
Roast Pork Fried Rice $9.25
Triple Crown $9.95
General Tso 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
Fresh Mushrooms With Beef $9.95
Fresh Mushrooms With Shrimp $9.95
Mixed Vegetables With Beef $9.95
Mixed Vegetables With Shrimp $9.95
Beef Chow Mein $9.95
Shrimp Chow Mein $9.95
Beef Fried Rice $9.95
Shrimp Fried Rice $9.95
Beef Lo Mein $9.95
Shrimp Lo Mein $9.95
APPETIZERS
1. Egg Roll (2) $3.75
2. Edamame
Boiled green soybeans.
$4.95
2. Spicy Edamame $5.50
3. Vegetable Spring Roll (2) $4.25
4. Crab Cheese Puffs (6) $5.95
5. Barbecue Ribs (4) $7.95
6. Shrimp Dumplings (6) $7.95
7. Pot Stickers (8)
With meat.
$6.95
8. Steamed Dumplings (8)
With meat.
$6.95
9. Spicy Calamari Rings $8.75
10. Shrimp Tempura (4) $7.95
SOUP
1. Soup of the Day $2.80
2. Wonton Soup $2.80
3. Hot & Sour Soup $3.75
4. Egg Drop Corn Soup $3.75
5. Shrimp Wonton Soup $9.95
6. Tofu with Green Vegetables Soup $8.50
6. Seafood Chowder $12.95
HOUSE GOURMET SPECIALS
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 4 jumbo shrimp, beef, chicken, callops, and green vegetables. Served with a hot sizzling plate. 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 Chinese spices and roasted until crispy, and keeps meat juicy. Sliced, served with roasted pork sauce and 4 Lotus Bun.
$13.95
5. Divine Marriage
Beef and scallops in oyster sauce.
$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
Sauteed with broccoli, mushrooms, and carrots, in our house special Teriyaki sauce. Served on a sizzling hot plate. Choice of beef, chicken, salmon, or jumbo shrimp.
$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
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.
$7.95
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 eel sauce.
$8.95
14. Combo Rolls (California & Texas Roll)
No. 1 and No. 4, two rolls served in one plate.
$12.95
SEAFOOD
1. Sweet & Sour Shrimp $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 Shrimp 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
1. Mu-Shu Pork
With 4 pancakes.
$11.95
2. Shredded Pork, Szechuan Style $9.95
3. Sweet & Sour Pork $9.95
4. Crispy Spicy Spareribs $11.95
4. Pork with Garlic Sauce $10.50
5. Roasted 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 $13.50
POULTRY
1. Sweet & Sour Chicken $10.50
2. Kung Pao Chicken $10.50
3. Moo Goo Gai Pan
Sliced chicken with mushroom.
$10.95
4. Almond Chicken $10.95
5. Jalapeno 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
1. Fresh Vegetables Sauteed In Brown Sauce
Your choice of bean-sprout, mushroom, string bean, or zucchini.
$11.25
2. Fresh Mushroom Sauteed In Brown Sauce $11.25
3. Chinese Eggplant In Garlic Sauce $11.25
4. Bamboo Steamer
Steamed mixed vegetables.
$10.25
5. Mixed Vegetables
With brown sauce.
$10.25
6. Hoome 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
1. Lo Mein
Chinese soft noodles.
$9.50
2. Chow Fung
Flat rice noodles.
$9.95
3. Rice Sticks Noodles $9.95
4. Double Fried Noodles $9.95
5. Udon Noodles $10.75
6. Hong Kong Crispy Noodle $11.25
7. Phad Thai Noodles
Phad Thai noodles, bean sprouts, chavis, garlic, and chili, sauteed in house phad Thai sauce (sweet, sour, and hot & spicy). Garnished with minced peanuts, lime, and cilantro.
$10.75
NOODLE SOUP
8. Delicate Noodle Soup $9.50
9. Korean Noodle Soup $9.50
10. Tempura Shrimp Udon Soup
4 tempura shrimp.
$10.95
11. Ramen Noodle Soup $10.50
12. Traditional Ramen Noodle Soup
Classic tonkotsu soup broth with 2 piece ramen roasted pork (chashu).
$13.95
RICE, CHOW MEIN, & EGG FOO YOUNG
1. Fried Rice
With soy sauce.
$9.50
2. Japanese Fried Rice
With white rice.
$10.25
3. Chow Mein
No noodles – mixed celery, napa cabbage, bean sprouts, and onion only.
$10.25
4. Egg Foo Young $11.25
SIDE DISHES
Sauteed Lo Mein Noodles
Chinese soft noodles.
$6.50
Sauteed Any Vegetables $5.00
Pancakes
4 pieces.
$6.25
Lotus Leaf Buns
4 pieces.
$6.25
Fried Rice $2.95
Steamed Rice $1.50
French Fries $4.50
DESSERTS
Fried Bananas $4.50
Cheesecake $3.95
Tres Leches Cheesecake $5.95
BEVERAGES
Soft Drinks $2.85
Coffee $2.85
Iced Tea $2.85
Canned Soda $1.95
Lemonade $3.50
Dasani Bottled Water $1.95

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Reviews

Theresa Fisher
Food was good, server was very good, place could use a good cleaning. Crab cheese puffs are very light on crab and cheese.

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Miatha Pizana
Well I’m sure the original owners don’t own this gig or the others. Anyways customer service was poor. Yet the table across from us got 100% attention every 2min. Vs. Us sitting and waiting and waiting and sitting. There were only 2 on our side and us made 3 and yet they never cked on us. I asked for fried rice they brought me white, I asked for red chili pepper they call hot sauce I waited, even asked another waiter and no response still had my food getting cold and no hot sauce. Had to waive the cashier to bring me some and she flagged someone and so shysty brings me 1 itty bitty container I’m like I need more. Still waited on that. Never gave us nor brought us entre soups that whatever soup of the day it is. Got squat!. Ignored no refills, as if we didn’t exist. Bad service from when I stepped in the restaurant was sitting there for more than 10min. Till I got adressed and even then worse customer service ever. Food was ok not as great as it use to be. But I don’t think I’ll ever come back. Idk what it was for us to have bad service and not attended. Yet others they were on top of it. I was like okaayy.. whatever!. And as we leave we got the fortune cookies. FYI so Stale guys you need to ck expiration date on that too. I’m more than sure they are Expired!.

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yajaira escobedo
Food is good. Small place but good food. I recommend it. They have advance order and pick up via drive thru.

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Kurt McCullough
Not bad for being on the Mexican Border. The Chinese Communist Party plexiglass and masks still seem to be the fad. The staff were attentive and friendly. The eggrolls were not the best. Basically your standard frozen ones you can get in any freezer section at any store. The BBQ ribs were really good though. This restaurant is all in all pretty good.. The selection is not bad, the flavors are outa the ordinary for the Valley! Bottom line, it’s a good spot for Chinese food in Brownsville.

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Melissa Quiroz
I ordered the lunch portion of the Kung pao chicken with fried rice. The food was not fresh at all. It seemed to have been reheated several times. The egg roll was horrible. I had chosen lotus thinking their food was freshly made. Next time I’ll go to Panda Express which is a lot better.

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jeffrey valdez
They have terrible service, and they only have one waitress. For some reason, there are seven tables to serve and only one working waitress. There are two other people to help her, yet they do not. One is in the corner, taking her sweet time eating and talking on her cell phone. It took forever to get any refills or condiments.

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Eric Stone
Orange chicken was just soy sauce.. cleaning smell over whelmed any food smells couldn’t finish my plate because it was to much salt. While cheep ya all should not pretend your Chinese

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Juan Hernandez
Best Chinese food in Brownsville. Prices are very reasonable. Food is very authentic. Delicious!

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Juan E Davila
My visit was pleasant. The employees were very friendly. They were kind to my daughter. The food is tasty.

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Granny Winnie
Excellent!! Service was great- food delish!! I had the veggies and chicken plate and it was perfect. Hubby had sweet and sour chicken and he said it was excellent. Cabbage soup was delightful. Can’t wait to try more of their menu items.

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