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Delicious Vegetarian Food in Sharjah

Posted on February 14, 2017May 7, 2025

What do you say if 5 plates out of 15 are desserts in my collage from Sharjah? Well, I don’t need to look far as to why I don’t lose weight anymore! I could find vegetarian food in Sharjah. Most of my meals in Sharjah were in hotel buffets. There was a reason for this. On the FAM there were bloggers as well as travel agents. When travel agents are part of the group, you get to see a lot of hotels. And the hotels then mostly host us for lunch or dinner! I ate at Royal Tulip Act, where I stayed, Sheraton Sharjah, Oceanic Khorfakkan, Golden Tulip Sharjah and Zahr El Laymoun, which is a restaurant. I also had a lunch Sultan Saray, Ajman.

Arabic cuisine has fantastic mezze meal which has Pita Bread (Kuboos), hummus, Babaghanoush, fattoush, olives, falafel etc which for me is good enough as meal. However it is otherwise treated as starters.

They also make excellent lentil soup. The bread selection at all the hotels was good. For me the starters and soup and bread were quite filling in itself. I could easily find rice at most of the buffets. Arabic bread feels like roti.

But then what happens when the novelty wears off after a few days? I could always find rice at the counters, sometimes we would pour the lentil soup over it as it tasted like our दाल (curry). But I did not see dedicated vegetarian counters in the hotels. There were live pasta counters at some buffets and they were popular with vegetarians.

In desserts all kind of pastry was available. There were a few local desserts that I tried but I remember the name of only one, the most popular known as Umm Ali. If you don’t believe me you can google the name and see if it is a dessert or not. It is made of puff pastry and condensed milk!

But the most rocking thing I had was Arabic Coffee with dates. It is kept in the hotels around the reception area for the guests. The cups are small and the coffee is black and bitter. But it is to be taken with dates (not the valentine day dates but dates as in खजूर) which counters the bitter taste. I wonder how I managed to miss it in Dubai!

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So overall I was fine in Sharjah as a vegetarian. I have a feeling that if we went to more restaurants rather than hotel buffets, probably it would be easier to find more variety in vegetarian food.

PS. My trip to Sharjah was sponsored by Air Arabia and Sharjah Tourism Board.

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12 thoughts on “Delicious Vegetarian Food in Sharjah”

  1. Veidehi says:
    February 15, 2017 at 1:45 am

    It looks so delicious..and now I know exactly what to eat while I’m in Sharjah 🙂 Above all, I love the centre picture with carrots in the pot..Cheers!

    Reply
    1. Mridula Dwivedi says:
      February 15, 2017 at 6:57 pm

      That central picture with the carrots was a veg casserole which I had in Ajman and yes it was good!

      Reply
  2. Yogi Saraswat says:
    February 15, 2017 at 10:06 am

    But it is to be taken with dates (not the valentine day dates but dates as in खजूर) which counters the bitter taste. strange !! Coffee with Karan ……No no , coffee with dates . 🙂

    Reply
    1. Mridula Dwivedi says:
      February 15, 2017 at 6:57 pm

      😀 😀 😀 Coffee with खजूर 😀

      Reply
  3. KaJo says:
    February 15, 2017 at 11:24 am

    That looks delicious!! thanks for the post. Probably visiting Dubai soon. So, good to know.

    Reply
    1. Mridula Dwivedi says:
      February 15, 2017 at 6:59 pm

      Restaurants in Dubai are able to understand vegetarian as a concept because of the large number of Indians visiting and living in Dubai! Have a great trip!

      Reply
  4. Kokila Gupta says:
    February 15, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    Nice to know that one can find veg food there. Umm Ali sounds yumm Ali! 🙂 🙂

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    1. Mridula Dwivedi says:
      February 15, 2017 at 10:44 pm

      Very true it was yum 😀

      Reply
  5. Tales of Traveling Sisters says:
    February 17, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    Such a delicious looking collage Mridula! Arabic vegetarian is one of our favorite cuisine.. 🙂

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    1. Mridula Dwivedi says:
      February 18, 2017 at 11:19 am

      I too like it a lot! 😀

      Reply
  6. Vaisakhi says:
    February 19, 2017 at 4:59 am

    Arabia and vegetarian food sounded weird when I saw the name of the post and then I saw that pic! You sure had some amazing foodie time there 😀

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    1. Mridula Dwivedi says:
      February 19, 2017 at 10:41 am

      Thank you Vaisakhi!

      Reply

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I am Mridula Dwivedi and I started this blog in 2005. It has been an amazing ride. I have visited 33 countries till date! I have worked with many tourism boards and prominent travel companies. My blog was featured on the BBC and the Guardian.

I did my Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. I worked full time in academics till 2015! I quit my job as a professor, thinking I will take a break for one year, which turned into five.

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