Rice Noodle Vegetable Salad

What is most frustrating about the recipe is that it's pictured with chicken skewers but is advertised in a special email for "vegan salad" recipes. I could not, for the life of me figure out what the skewers were (not cucumbers because the recipe calls for chopped, not eggplant because the recipe doesn't call for it...) until I read the side note that you serve the salad with chicken. What part of "vegan" is this recipe if you picture it with chicken...