Amar Khopade

Highly recommend for Vegans. Salmon fillet and sesame fried chicken was great. The owner/receptionist lady is so friendly and kind.

Chiucat / Angel

Authentic Buddhist Chinese food (vegan) that features faux meats made of gluten or togu skin, to deliver the look & (mouth)feel of the real thing. One of a very few fully vegan Chinese restaurants in the region. Well executed dishes, though sometimes the flavors can converge. Highly recommend Veggie Duck. Do not recommend Hong Kong Style Fried Noodles (go to a Cantonese restaurant for this!) Excellent for plant-based diets. Due to Omicron they're back to take-out only, though they accommodated us when we requested (and helped) to move a table outside.

+1

Irene Tang

Great option for spicy food lovers! Bonus points for a small, locally-owned mom and pop shop (a husband and wife run the place). Been coming here for a few years and has always been consistently tasty. Try to come early before you are hungry because they are pretty stretched and don't have a lot of workers. The place is pretty small so there may be a little bit of a wait. Good authentic Chinese food but with a vegetarian (probably vegan) twist. Food is so good that even meat eaters can enjoy it because their veggie meat is really, really good. Their faux meat options actually taste different from one another (duck is probably the most popular, I like the ribs, and chicken as well). I had their vegan dessert cake before (in the refrigerator) and it was honestly the best vegan cake I've had. Not sure where they get it from but it was soft and moist.

+3

Ivy Leung

We came here for lunch on a weekday. No wait as we got there right when they opened. This was my first time to this restaurant but I'm familiar with Chinese vegan food. Overall the food was great, the owner was really nice. There were 8 of us and one of us was Gluten Free and the owner took her time to circle out which dish they could accommodate for GF. Since we were a big group we ordered a bunch of entree to share. My favorite was the orange beef, mango chicken and veggie duck. The spring rolls were worth ordering as well. The food was not as salty as I typically found in Chinese vegan restaurants - which was great. Would definitely come back. Go for: -spring rolls -orange beef -mango chicken -vegi duck Skip: - hot plate tofu - potstickers

Carl Perry

Blew my expectations away. I'm a carnivore who eats 70% meat diet and I loved the food. Looks like meat, texture is like meat, and taste similar. Dishes are seasoned well. This is a must try. Dishes are a bit pricey at ~$15... But it is in Palo Alto, and it is unique. The place it's pretty small, so may have wait times during peak hours.

***USP: decades old Chinese vegan place with mock meat based dishes. ***AMBIANCE: place is not very large and has stood the test of time. It's in need of some deep cleaning but is definitely very decent considering the age and the fact that it's run by a very old couple. ***FOOD: here is what we got- *black pepper chow mein- 3/5- lacked oomph and some kick. The "chicken" was more like tough pieces of soy. The noodles need a bit of char. *schezuan eggplant and green beans: 3.5/5: I love this dish and try to order it at every Chinese restaurant I visit even if it's not a pure vegan restaurant. The eggplants in this dish oozed out a lot of oil which wasn't very pleasant. The overall dish lacked a bit of flavor as well. Green beans lacked a crunch. Rounding off to 4 as the place seems to be run with a lot of love by an old couple.

Andy Ng

Mountain View only has one fully vegan restaurant and this is a great one to represent for the veg heads out there. Run by a small family, we felt right at home with their service and great food. We ordered three entrees and some brown rice on the side to share. Each dish was about $16 so average pricing for the area. The Basil Tempura was highly recommended and we did enjoy the spices they used for the dish. I thought it would be a bit crispier given that it's tempura but they do add on a light sauce, making it more of a stir-fry consistency. We also tried their Dry Braised String Beans with Soy Chicken and this was another standout. Like the previous dish, they do go a bit heavier on the sauce than I'd imagine so it's not a fully dry stir-fried dish, but a great one nonetheless. My favorite dish was their veggie ribs which was essentially their take on beef and broccoli. Their use of mushrooms here as the beef was ingenious and the meaty texture of it made it taste very realistic. Thanks Garden Fresh for being the lone fully vegan restaurant in the area. You're definitely a keeper.

Karan Bhansali

Although the place is very small, and can barely seat 30 people, the food is great and the service is quick too. We ordered the Basil Tempura, Vegetable Chowmein & Veggie Prawns & Walnuts - all the stuff we ordered was good.

Cecilia Chung

Not a vegan, this was the first time I tried vegan Chinese food and was quite surprised. They make lots of meat dishes but with imitation meat. The duck was very realistic in terms of texture and looks. The tempura was very tasty and the noodles were delicious. A bit more expensive than regular Chinese food, but not excessively. I'd come back to try more dishes. They have lower prices on many of the dishes during lunch time.

+2

Venkat Krishnaraj

We didn't order a lot of items here, however we found that the quality between dishes tended to vary from good to amazing. The scallion pancakes are amazing, definitely get those. The tofu skin fried rice and buns we're good, but not great. The pepper sauce on the table was outstanding. I normally don't like spicy sauces and I cannot tolerate high levels of spice either. However, the peppers roasted in here were so flavorful without being hot - fantastic. They also work well with the soy sauce. I think might go here again just to try that sauce on other items.

+3

Amir Shevat

My wife wanted us to check this place our and although I am far from vegetarian we went to eat here. I was pleasantly surprised to find a big choice of good quality food and demi-meat dishes. Even the kids found things they liked. The spicy tofu was good, the dumplings were just ok. The roles were very good.

RM

Wanted to try this place out seeing the good reviews but found this disgusting big worm in my Tofu take out today.Threw away the rest of the items as couldn’t trust them. Horrible hygiene standards. Never coming back. I hope they take hygiene and food quality standards seriously as it’s a big risk to a customer’s health and safety.