Are vegetables and salads fresh at Egyptian hotel restaurants?

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TL;DR

Cooked and steamed vegetables are generally fine, but fresh vegetables are often limp and dry due to the desert climate. Fresh tomato and cucumber salads exist but quality varies.

What the community said

Some hotels offer a genuinely good experience: abundant greens at breakfast, lunch and dinner (arugula, cilantro, parsley), several types of salads, peppers, olives. Cucumbers are consistently tasty, and for tomatoes it helps to pick the redder/riper ones. Carrots are good, and pumpkin can be excellent too. Among cooked vegetable dishes, eggplant and vegetable sauté are reliably tasty.

Fresh vegetables at buffets are often disappointing — cucumbers are limp with little flesh, shredded carrot and cabbage are dry and tough. Some salads appear to be leftover breakfast ingredients mixed together. The desert climate takes a toll on fresh produce quality.

Not all fresh salads are bad — a simple chopped salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, and onion can be genuinely fresh and not recycled from breakfast leftovers.

Steamed or boiled vegetables are a safe bet — they're hard to ruin and are generally acceptable. If fresh vegetable quality matters to you, opt for cooked vegetable dishes instead.