I gave Veggie Delight a try tonight. The restaurant is tucked into the side of what I can only assume is an Asian-town district on Spring Mountain Road in Las Vegas given the architecture and other restaurants in the vicinity.
To start, I ordered a couple appetizers: Chinese broccoli in oyster sauce and sweet and sour soup. The soup was piping hot as was the broccoli, so if ever you're looking to shack up on a cold, dreary day in Vegas--yeah, I know, it happens so much, right?--then this is the place to come.
I must not have had Chinese broccoli before because I was expecting something more along the lines of broccoli raab. Nonetheless, it was good and very fresh. I would have liked it to have been cooked a little more tender, but it was probably prepared the traditional way.
The sweet and sour soup wasn't what I was expecting either but really had quite a nice flavor, reminiscent of sweet and sour sauce yet less intense.
For my entree, I had Vietnamese lemon grass beef noodles vegan-style. Wow, this was a very well-balanced dish with subtle lemon grass and aromatic basil. Unlike some Vietnamese noodle dishes, this one was so moist and just a joy to eat.
Overall, the food was out-of-the-ordinary but really quite good. My only complaint would be its confused menu. Despite being a vegetarian-focused restaurant, also offering vegan options for nearly every dish, so many of them have a jarringly meat-centric names. It almost makes you wonder if it's actually vegetarian or that you're about to get kind of meat product mistakenly masqueraded as vegetarian. I mean, beef this and pork skin that. It's a bit too much and almost seems like a desperate apologist's approach to vegetarian cooking. Plus, is there really a difference between an imitation beef sandwich and an imitation beef steak sandwich? Also, despite many dishes offered in both vegetarian and vegan variants, in most cases it's hard to imagine a practical difference between the two. In sum, Veggie Delight has an odd menu that would benefit greatly from simplification, but, oh well, definitely a place worth trying.