This Is What Hospital Food In Japan Looks Like
If there’s one thing that seems to have a horrible reputation no matter where you go, it’s hospital food; bland, colorless, vomit-inducing meals that make the reason you’re there seem bearable in comparison. A woman who recently gave birth in Japan, however, has just shared 12 of the meals she was served during her stay in the maternity ward, and they look tastier than half of the restaurants we’ve ever visited. Food presentation is crucial in the Land of the Rising Sun, and it would appear that even hospitals take this cultural tradition seriously.
Since the woman’s post went viral, users from all over the globe – especially the US – now want to give birth in Japan, including men. We’re not sure if these gourmet spreads are offered to people in the hospital for other reasons, but if you’re in Tokyo and feel like getting a ‘surprise’ injury to find out, let us know how it goes.
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Omuraisu, Macaroni Salad, Chicken Soup, Squid Rings, Fruit, Green Tea
Mushroom Pasta, Potato Salad, Broccoli And Bacon Salad, Chicken Soup, Fruit, Bread, Green Tea
Chicken Fingers With Shredded Cabbage Salad, Bitter Melon Stir Fry, Agedashi Tofu, Carrot Salad, Rice, Miso Soup
Salmon, Tofu, Spinach Salad, Natto, Miso Soup, Rice, Milk
Fried Fish With Tartar Sauce, Braised Mountain Potatoes, Hijiki Salad, Spinach And Carrot Stir Fry, Rice, Green Tea
Camembert And Raisins, Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Kabocha, Lotus Root With Gravy, Corn Soup, Rice, Salad, Tiramisu, Fruit, Orange Juice, Green Tea
Chicken With Mushroom Sauce, Braised Pumpkin And Pork, Daikon Carrot Salad, Rice, Miso Soup, Chawan Mushi
Cod, Shredded Cabbage Salad, Pasta Salad, Sweet Potato And Peas, Rice, Green Tea
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Salmon With Mushroom Sauce, Soba Noodles, Rice, Eggplant And Beef, Broccoli, Hijiki Salad
Mackerel, Konbu Salad, Natto, Spinach Salad, Miso Soup, Rice, Milk, Green Tea
Braised Vegetables, Niku Jaga (Meat And Potatoes), Cucumber And Baby Corn Salad, Rice, Miso Soup, Green Tea
Sea Bream, Pasta Salad, Chicken Meatballs, Pickled Daikon, Rice, Miso Soap, Chawan Mushi, Green Tea
Needless to say, people were impressed
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yea ditto if i were to say "accidentally" break my leg would i get all of that? #askingforapatient
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I think it would cost less to just buy a bento box rather than accidentally putting yourself into a semi-coma. #suggestingforacommenter ^_^
3 meals a day so 4 days? That's not terribly long. Sometime people need to to recover. That being said it just looks like food to me with some Asian influences which I find yummy but not noteworthy.
Load More Replies... Not noteworthy? What does hospital food in your country look like? In my country, the breakfast and dinner is 1 slice of white bread and butter. Lunch is usually mashed potatoes (made from that instant powder thing not actual potatoes) and a thin slice of spam that looks green-ish like it's already gone bad. That's all you get. It looks disgusting, tastes disgusting, the propotions are way too small and the food has no nutritional value at all. If you actually eat the hospital food here, it will probably make you even sicker.
You havent spent much time in hospital, have you? I have a perfect record, after 16 surgeries and several other lengthy admissions......Im in heart failure, Im in hospital A LOT......and Ive NEVER once eaten a meal that was brought to me from the hospital kitchen. We have universal healthcare, which is just as well otherwise we would go broke because my family have to bring every meal to the hospital for me or I would starve to death. Recently Ive started refusing to even let them take the lid off the plate because the smell is enough to make me gag. Damn, Im allergic to fish and these photos still look appetising.
Most people stay in for at least five days after giving birth in Japan. Very good care and first class medical support. Mortality rates are the lowest in the world, and almost everybody gives birth in the hospital. however, it is horrendously expensive. If you have national insurance you get a lot of what you paid back later but you still have to come up with at least ¥500,000 up front. In some cases before you even have the baby. Also, not all hospitals provide such good food. Mine was awful. As Echo posted, this is pretty normal food for Japan, although well presented. It was probably a private hospital.
Oh please, in the U.S., not only do we NOT have free healthcare, the c**p they try to feed us in hospitals is barely edible even for dogs, much less humans.
In Japan everyone gets 4 nights of hospital stay MANDATORY after giving birth. It's all paid for by the national health plan, as well...
Stan, and that is still better food than what we get here in the US. What you described is just as much a luxury as what's in the photos as far as hospital food in the US goes.
Food like this is normal? Over here in M'sia, it's nothing like this. There's fish but some steamed chicken or white batter fried Mekong catfish, 2X boiled veggies, fresh fruit[honeydew/papaya], tea and some biscuits. It's decent but luxurious as this unless it's a private hospital.
Several countries still hold to keeping the mother for a few days to ensure that everything is good. Heck, I had a double-jaw surgery here (USA) and it was a f***-ing outpatient procedure--in Canada, they keep you for at least a week because the surgery requires sawing through the bones in your head and bolting them all back together.
It depends on how many kids you've had but for the first one the mother and child usually stay in the hospital for about a full week, it gives a new mother time to heal and to learn how to care for the child from the nurses and other professionals. Subsequent stays can be shorter but it is still generally around 5 days or so. (I'm the father of 3, all born in Japan)
When wife gave birth in 2011 she stayed in the hospital 6 days they even help train new mothers to care for the newborns and the food is that good!
In the USA, if I remember correctly, the stay in a hospital after birth is 24 hours. Unless there is complications.
With a c-section my friends all got a 48 hour recovery period before getting an rx for light pain meds and a follow-up appointment in a week. And even then the surgery was scheduled so it took only the first 4 hours and the other 44 were recovery. And they had epidurals!
I work in obstetrics. In the US, it's usually 2 nights for a vaginal birth and 3 nights for a surgical birth (i.e. C-section).
Is that by choice? Do women prefer to stay longer, or shorter usually? Women can choose stay for a similar timeframe here (Australia), but in some places you have the option of a longer stay if they have the room. The hospital I had my first in let me stay for a week. My other two children were born in a hospital closer to the city, but I was able to stay 5 days for each of them; recommended longer for the middle child as she was 4 weeks early, but I was keen to get my routine happening, so they let me go as long as I agreed to at home glucose test for baby for the next few days.
I believe these are options that you preorder before dinner. In hospitals where I live, maternity or otherwise, you make out your daily menu plan. It's generous. You can order doubles on pretty much everything and there are American and ethnic menus to choose from. You can ask for diabetic or low cal meals (unless nixed by a doctor) and the food is either plain (if that's what the Dr. ordered) or fairly gourmet. One time the kitchen sent up a snack for me and at first I refused it until I saw it. Tuna salad, not my fav. But it was chunks of freshly steamed ahi, chilled, with slices of pickled veggies, minced onions and mayo. I was amazed. The menus are actually coordinated with local chefs. You're in the hospital, your sick enough, sometimes you can't have visitors, the least they can do is give you a proper meal. It really can be an emotional boost.
Oh yes, the reason the night nurse and kitchen ordered and sent up a snack was because my blood sugar was too low. Unbelievable. Hospitals in Hawaii are second to none. They have a central fridge with juice, puddings, cake, pie, salad, etc. which you can have upon request without ordering up from the kitchen. When my sister was suffering from cancer, the only thing that staved off her nausea was tropical fruit juice. The nurses gave me free pass to take armfuls for both my sister and I. Nurses in Hawaii, can't say enough about how compassionate they are.
It always depend on how thing goes. I'm in Canada but I expect it's similar in Japan. For my first child I stayed exactly 7 days at the hospital. He was premature with some other complications. For my second child I stayed about 24h. The average here is 2 days I believe.
people often stay in hospital for up to a week after giving birth.
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yea ditto if i were to say "accidentally" break my leg would i get all of that? #askingforapatient
Load More Replies... I think it would cost less to just buy a bento box rather than accidentally putting yourself into a semi-coma. #suggestingforacommenter ^_^
3 meals a day so 4 days? That's not terribly long. Sometime people need to to recover. That being said it just looks like food to me with some Asian influences which I find yummy but not noteworthy.
Load More Replies... Not noteworthy? What does hospital food in your country look like? In my country, the breakfast and dinner is 1 slice of white bread and butter. Lunch is usually mashed potatoes (made from that instant powder thing not actual potatoes) and a thin slice of spam that looks green-ish like it's already gone bad. That's all you get. It looks disgusting, tastes disgusting, the propotions are way too small and the food has no nutritional value at all. If you actually eat the hospital food here, it will probably make you even sicker.
You havent spent much time in hospital, have you? I have a perfect record, after 16 surgeries and several other lengthy admissions......Im in heart failure, Im in hospital A LOT......and Ive NEVER once eaten a meal that was brought to me from the hospital kitchen. We have universal healthcare, which is just as well otherwise we would go broke because my family have to bring every meal to the hospital for me or I would starve to death. Recently Ive started refusing to even let them take the lid off the plate because the smell is enough to make me gag. Damn, Im allergic to fish and these photos still look appetising.
Most people stay in for at least five days after giving birth in Japan. Very good care and first class medical support. Mortality rates are the lowest in the world, and almost everybody gives birth in the hospital. however, it is horrendously expensive. If you have national insurance you get a lot of what you paid back later but you still have to come up with at least ¥500,000 up front. In some cases before you even have the baby. Also, not all hospitals provide such good food. Mine was awful. As Echo posted, this is pretty normal food for Japan, although well presented. It was probably a private hospital.
Oh please, in the U.S., not only do we NOT have free healthcare, the c**p they try to feed us in hospitals is barely edible even for dogs, much less humans.
In Japan everyone gets 4 nights of hospital stay MANDATORY after giving birth. It's all paid for by the national health plan, as well...
Stan, and that is still better food than what we get here in the US. What you described is just as much a luxury as what's in the photos as far as hospital food in the US goes.
Food like this is normal? Over here in M'sia, it's nothing like this. There's fish but some steamed chicken or white batter fried Mekong catfish, 2X boiled veggies, fresh fruit[honeydew/papaya], tea and some biscuits. It's decent but luxurious as this unless it's a private hospital.
Several countries still hold to keeping the mother for a few days to ensure that everything is good. Heck, I had a double-jaw surgery here (USA) and it was a f***-ing outpatient procedure--in Canada, they keep you for at least a week because the surgery requires sawing through the bones in your head and bolting them all back together.
It depends on how many kids you've had but for the first one the mother and child usually stay in the hospital for about a full week, it gives a new mother time to heal and to learn how to care for the child from the nurses and other professionals. Subsequent stays can be shorter but it is still generally around 5 days or so. (I'm the father of 3, all born in Japan)
When wife gave birth in 2011 she stayed in the hospital 6 days they even help train new mothers to care for the newborns and the food is that good!
In the USA, if I remember correctly, the stay in a hospital after birth is 24 hours. Unless there is complications.
With a c-section my friends all got a 48 hour recovery period before getting an rx for light pain meds and a follow-up appointment in a week. And even then the surgery was scheduled so it took only the first 4 hours and the other 44 were recovery. And they had epidurals!
I work in obstetrics. In the US, it's usually 2 nights for a vaginal birth and 3 nights for a surgical birth (i.e. C-section).
Is that by choice? Do women prefer to stay longer, or shorter usually? Women can choose stay for a similar timeframe here (Australia), but in some places you have the option of a longer stay if they have the room. The hospital I had my first in let me stay for a week. My other two children were born in a hospital closer to the city, but I was able to stay 5 days for each of them; recommended longer for the middle child as she was 4 weeks early, but I was keen to get my routine happening, so they let me go as long as I agreed to at home glucose test for baby for the next few days.
I believe these are options that you preorder before dinner. In hospitals where I live, maternity or otherwise, you make out your daily menu plan. It's generous. You can order doubles on pretty much everything and there are American and ethnic menus to choose from. You can ask for diabetic or low cal meals (unless nixed by a doctor) and the food is either plain (if that's what the Dr. ordered) or fairly gourmet. One time the kitchen sent up a snack for me and at first I refused it until I saw it. Tuna salad, not my fav. But it was chunks of freshly steamed ahi, chilled, with slices of pickled veggies, minced onions and mayo. I was amazed. The menus are actually coordinated with local chefs. You're in the hospital, your sick enough, sometimes you can't have visitors, the least they can do is give you a proper meal. It really can be an emotional boost.
Oh yes, the reason the night nurse and kitchen ordered and sent up a snack was because my blood sugar was too low. Unbelievable. Hospitals in Hawaii are second to none. They have a central fridge with juice, puddings, cake, pie, salad, etc. which you can have upon request without ordering up from the kitchen. When my sister was suffering from cancer, the only thing that staved off her nausea was tropical fruit juice. The nurses gave me free pass to take armfuls for both my sister and I. Nurses in Hawaii, can't say enough about how compassionate they are.
It always depend on how thing goes. I'm in Canada but I expect it's similar in Japan. For my first child I stayed exactly 7 days at the hospital. He was premature with some other complications. For my second child I stayed about 24h. The average here is 2 days I believe.
people often stay in hospital for up to a week after giving birth.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that’s cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $9k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do... http://cutt.us/1Tmb
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