5th Avenue Vegetarian Delight

My favorite take out spot food always taste clean and fresh and price is always reasonable sushi is always fresh and amazing.

Great food, good location, and cheap! Staff is very nice– food and delivery are always fast.
Best Crab Rangoons I’ve ever had.

Cheap as hell and good, over & out!

I ordered in about 2 weeks ago, got steamed dumplings and a spicy tuna roll, both very simple things, and both terrible! The dumpling wrappers were SO thick and gummy, worst I have EVER had, and the filling was nothing special at all. The sushi was clearly made from a bad grade of fish, it tasted weird and had a strange consistency, and I actually found a sharp FISH BONE in one piece of sushi. The rolls were also badly rolled and coming apart. Overall a terrible experience, will never order from here again.

Ordered cause the other place i order from was not that good. But now I wish I never had and just stuck to my usual place. Dumplings but no sauce? Miso soup with 2 pieces of Tofu? Beef fried rice that i paid an extra 2.00 for gave me 4 small pieces of beef? Totally disappointed and annoyed. A waste of my 20 bucks. Fast delivery shitty food prep. The only good tasting item was the Miso soup but total disappointment with my mini tofus of two pieces. I gave two stars simply because they flew here. Other then that I will never ever order from here again.

They are an amazing «family-​run» business. Fast delivery, great portions and good prices. I order regularly and the quality is pretty steady. Boneless spare ribs are amazing here. I truly appreciate a consistent business, xièxie.

First of all, want to give an update on Ernie A.‘s previous review. He reported that this restaurant had a B sanitation rating from the city, but I was just there and they had an A hanging in their window. So they must have made some improvements.
The place is clean and unassuming. I found the woman behind the counter to be incredibly friendly and sweet in a genuine way, not cloying at all.
There are a few tables to sit at so it is not, as some of the other reviews have mentioned, a take-​out only spot.
Their menu is indeed quite varied. I ate the Vegetarian Szechuan Chicken for lunch, which oddly enough comes with pork fried rice. I was able to substitue brown rice no problem. The flavor was ok, a little bland in my view, but the vegetables were cooked perfectly and I did not find it overwhelmingly greasy, as some other reviewers had.
Overall, you get what you pay for here, and maybe you even get a bit more. It feels like a cleaner, nicer version of your standard nyc chinese takeout joint. No complaints, but nothing earth-​shattering.

I’ve been ordering from here for quite some time now, mostly the lunch specials. For a while the food tasted quite good but recently it’s been beginning to feel dry not as fresh as it did before. The chicken noodle soup that came with my lunch special was extremely watered down, to the point that I couldn’t even finish it. The chicken in my chicken and broccoli felt gelatinous and squishy that it made me throw my food out. It’s sad to see a business start slacking after prospering for so long.

Point of clarification: the storefront says «Asian Taste», not 5^th Avenue Vegetarian Delight.
On to the (not so good) review:
First, they received a «B» from the city for sanitation. It’s really not that hard to get an «A», so the «B» says something. What else said something to me? They served my food with a long hair hanging on the outside of the styrofoam container. Yuck. That is the elegant «for here» serving.
Second, once I mustered the will to eat the food, I found the fried tofu to have been over-​cooked, as if it had been re-​re-​fried many times. Maybe that is why it is so fast. And the veggies in the dish were just OK, nothing special.

I’ll make this short and sweet. I ordered from them tonight and I have to say that the only meal I’ve eaten with more grease was off the lunch trucks at Rutgers. Every bite was followed by the taste of oil. The egg rolls, oily. The fried rice, oily. The chow fun, oily. The only dish that didn’t have an oliy aftertaste was the soup, which didn’t have any taste at all. Never again.

«Authentic» Chinese food? Maybe not. But I will tell you that’s either way this place is great. They make the best Chinese takeout I’ve had in NYC. My two faves have to be the General Tso’s chicken (don’t judge me) and the shrimp dumplings.
If you’re not a complete douche, and have a weakness for takeout spots, you will fall in love with this place. If you ARE a douche, then why the hell are you even checking this place out?
I have to admit, though, that I’ve yet to try the sushi. I had a bad experience once with a Chinese/​Japanese combo job in Chelsea, which has left me a little scared. If you can vouch for the sushi at this place, please let me know, and I may try my luck.

I order from here all the time while I’m starving at work. They are SO FAST. I like literally hang up the phone and they already are at my job 5 minutes later with the freaken food in my face. They are really friendly over the phone and accept credit cards (which is always great!).
It’s always a plus when they can actually speak English so don’t worry about your order getting screwed up. Try their broccoli in garlic sauce… pretty tasty!

This place has excellent, tasty and fresh Chinese food at a very good price. Everything you could ask for really. They are very friendly and prompt with delivery (though since we live a few blocks away we usually just pick it up). Try their General Tso’s Shrimp. Also their lo mien dishes are excellent. I agree with previous reviewers that their vegetables are nice, fresh and crunchy, not soggy at all. Definitely our only choice for Chinese in the neighborhood!

First, some clarification: Their storefront is labeled 5^th Avenue Asian Taste, but they advertise online under three names: Osaka to Go, Asian Taste, and 5^th Avenue Vegetarian Delight. Vegetarian Delight is sort of a misleading name, since their huge menu contains quite a bit of meat, seafood and fish.
But don’t worry about the name; trust the reviews. This place has a full sushi menu, a full chinese menu, and a full vegetarian menu, and they only do take-​out and delivery. Are you vegetarian? The soy chicken pineapple curry is fantastic, as are the vegetarian versions of classic American Chinese food. They also do the Sushi + Noodles thing, but I’ve yet to try that. Delivery is alarmingly fast and and the portions are huge — two entrees can easily stretch to four meals.

It’s really unclear why on Unilocal it’s called 5^th Avenue Vegetarian Delight because I’m pretty sure it actually has two names: Osaka Grill and Asian Taste. But they do specialize in healthy, Chinese food.
It’s right around the corner but it’s really everything you can ask from your tiny local chinese restaurant: 1. Clean 2. Non greasy 3. Extremely friendly 4. Delicious. Our orders definitely last more than one meal and they’ve always been prompt, their vegetables have always been fresh, and they’re great!

They are our go to place for sushi delivery. They are always friendly, fast, and manage to remember our order whenever we call making them awesome and us predictable.
I usually get the tempura chicken roll (ironically I don’t eat fish, but I love sushi) and the girlfriend gets spicy tuna.
The lunch special is especially worthwhile!

This place is amazing! We order here at least once a week. Don’t know if you feel like having Chinese or Sushi? No problem! They have it all. And they are super friendly and accommodating to adjusting the spicyness or replacing meat with vegetarian tofu. We swear by this place for delivery, and though we’ve tried others, no place can compare to the great food, great prices, and vast selection.

There used to be a mini-​chain of restaurants called Teriyaki Boy. Yes, I realize that as of this posting they still exist, but they’re on the decline. And it’s a shame. There used to be one in Manhattan on 46^th St. that I would often go to, for their Eel Platter. It was simple. A big piece of eel, sauteed in eel sauce, served over a big bed of white rice. Seven or eight bucks. Simple, no-​frills, and pretty similar quality that you’d find in mid-​range sushi joints.
So when i saw that 5^th Avenue Vegetarian Delight (or whatever they call themselves that has meat too, these restaurants within restaurants confuse me) had Unagi Don, I was excited. Even more excited was because it was ten bucks. Of course, I should have realized that you get what you pay for.
To put it simply, it was crappy. Five little, thin pieces of eel, sort of lukewarm, on rice. Very disappointing. Not tasty. Small.
I’ve been to Asian grocery stores that sell pieces of eel wrapped in plastic. It’s not that expensive. And I bet if you were to buy them in bulk, or the entire eel and then butcher it, the price would go down even more.
The way this was done was simply greedy. Or stupid. I don’t know. Either way though, I won’t be returning.

First of all, I have no way of reviewing this place objectively. It’s literally right around the corner, and I don’t have the algebra ability to work out how much my laziness and desire for convenience factor into my repeated patronage. What I will say is that no matter what I get, what time I order, or what quantity of food I am picking up, it’s always inexplicably ready in less than ten minutes. These guys really should do a kitchen efficiency tutorial for some of the more esteemed restaurants further up 5^th Ave.
Most take-​out Chinese places seem to be in some kind of war of attrition with my digestive health, but this place has never made me ill. Because of my diminished expectations for Chinese food around here, this is all I ask for anymore.
And one final note for vegetarians: Yes, they have a lot of faux-​meat options, and sometimes they are more than adequate, but about half the time the dishes can taste like spongy sauced space food. It’s probably based on who is cooking, but I have not identified the cook/​culprit, and have therefore developed no successful strategy to avoid this problem. Good luck to you.

I’ve had so many awful things to review lately, time for a good one!
Vegetarian Delight does Chinese AND Japanese and does it well! Usually I’m wary of places that do both, but this place is for real. I love all their sushi, the spicy tuna is the one I order most often. My boyfriend is a non-​fish eater and he loves getting the chicken tempura roll with spicy mayo. Yum!
I also really like their Chinese dishes. The Chicken with Almonds is great as is Chicken and Snowpeas. I’ll say that the Beef and Broccoli was good but not great, I probably won’t go for the beef dishes too often there and stick with chicken, vegetarian, or sushi. Eggrolls are also kinda so-​so here.
Delivery is always fast and they are always amazingly nice.