Opera Menu and Prices

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Opera Menu

Last Update: 2025-03-14


Beginnings

Vegetable Springroll

$6.00

shitake mushrooms, glass noodles, lemon sweet-sour sauce

Pork and Ginger Dumplings

$7.00

scallion-ginger broth

Golden Shrimp

$10.00

wok smoked chili-Sichuan peppercorn glaze

Crisp Eight Immortal Squid

$7.00

garlic mayonnaise, sweet chili, 5 spice dipping salt

Maine Lobster Springroll

$11.00

mango - lime

Beijing Twice-Cooked Ribs

$9.00

Chinese mustard

Mongolian Sticky Ribs

$9.00

sticky-sweet guilen sauce

Crab and Chopstick

$12.00

jumbo lump cake, Jonah crab chopsticks

Lobster and Pork Sui Mai

$9.00

roasted chili pesto, scallion-ginger sauce

Hainanese Mussels

$11.00

lotus, young bamboo, cilantro, chiu chow chili-coconut broth

Fragrant Minced Chicken Soong

$8.00

plum flavored minced chicken, crisp lettuce wraps

Shanghai Shrimp Dumplings

$9.00

prawn chips, soy, ginger-scallion relish


From the Kettle and Garden

Opera Field Green Salad

$6.00

fresh herbs, crispy noodles, sesame-lime vinaigrette

Sichuan Peanut Noodles

$6.00

crunchy peanuts, herbs, spiced peanut sauce

Crispy Chicken E-Fu Noodle Salad

$8.00

jicama, herbs, Napa cabbage, mustard dressing

Emperor’s 5 Flavor Hot and Sour Soup

$6.00

Soup of the Day

Price may varies


Sides

Sichuan Dry-Cooked Green Beans

$7.00

ground pork, preserved vegetables, sweet soy

Steamed Chinese Broccoli and 'White Flower' Mushroom

$9.00

Sugar Snap Peas and Forest Mushroom Stirfry

$9.00

Carolina Rock Shrimp Fried Rice

$12.00

Hunan Pork Chop

$22.00

slow grilled garlic marinated chop, hunan braised pork shoulder, vegetable ragu, mashed potatoes


Mains - From the Sea

Cantonese Crystal Prawns

$17.00

sweet prawns, sugar snap peas, lotus, crisp water chestnuts, shaoxing wine-soy sauce

Black Tiger Prawn Singapore Noodles

$24.00

prawns, lump crab, Chinese sausage, Madras curry

Clear Steamed Georgia Bank Cod

$19.00

choi sun, soy, shaoxing broth, toasted sesame oil

Slow Roasted Scottish Salmon

$20.00

smoked salmon-chive rangoon, carmelized tangerine sauce

Sesame Diver Scallops

$22.00

seared Maine scallops, crisp bay scallop-herb fried rice, lemon-ginger vinaigrette


Opera's House Specialties

Opera Peking Duck Service Three Preparations

$28.00

Opera Filet Mignon

$32.00

black pepper grilled filet mignon, Chinese broccoli, black mushroom, red wine-xo sauce


From the Sky

Chicken Chow Fun

$16.00

flat rice noodles, chicken breast, gai lan, ginger

Crispy Sweet and Sour Pheonix Chicken

$17.00

vanilla scented pineapple sauce, roasted cashews

Fire Cracker Chicken

$18.00

chicken breast, roasted chilies, herbs, scallion

Chicken and Forest Mushroom Stirfry

$18.00

chicken breast, asparagus, wild mushrooms, shaoxing wine-soy glaze


From the Land

Crisp Orange Beef

$18.00

lotus, scallion, snow peas, sweet orange-sesame glaze

Red Cooked Beef Rib

$21.00

garlic-chive potato cakes, fukian citrus-rock sugar glaze

Kung Pao Beef

$19.00

roasted peanuts, cilantro, scallions, chili-garlic black bean sauce

Beef and Asparagus

$26.00

black pepper crusted NY strip, asparagus, phat noodles, black pepper sauce


House Vegan Delights

Morel Mushroom Wontons

$9.00

asparagus salad, sweet truffle oil-sesame vinaigrette

Vegetable Soong

$8.00

Minced tofu, Sichuan pickled vegetables, crisp lettuce wraps

Tofu Salad Two Ways

$9.00

chilled Chui chow chili and warm black bean-ginger sauce

Dan Dan Mein

$11.00

thick cut phat noodles, water chestnuts, shitake mushrooms, bird chili spiked peanut sauce

Mapo Tofu

$8.00

grandmother's chili spiked tofu, garlic-black bean sauce

Hainanese Style Kaipong

$14.00

twice cooked ginger scented rice, stir fried choy sum, white flower mushrooms, sweet peas, lotus leaf wrapped and steamed

Dessert

$7.00

Chris Hansen's bittersweet chocolate and coconut pudding with coconut sorbet and macaroons


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