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You Will Find It Hard To Believe That This Woman’s Photos Of Japanese Hospital Food Are Real
Good food makes everything approximately 2,37 septillion times better. Yes, even giving birth. Recently, Imgurian jenkinsinjapan gave birth in Mito, Japan, and the hospital meals she had were so tasty, she just had to share them online. In the blink of an eye, her post went viral, leaving the entire internet drooling.
“My c-section wasn’t planned so the food I got wasn’t really pre-surgery food. I couldn’t eat most of it anyway!” Turns out, she just got served what most of the patients at the hospital eat on a daily basis. “The meals weren’t specifically for people in labour. I’m not sure pregnancy food restrictions still apply when the baby is on its way out!”
“It was a little privately owned OB-GYN clinic, but the costs were mostly covered by standard insurance! <…> I paid some extra but what I paid was pretty standard for most hospitals in the area.” She claimed that normally mommies have to pay about 30% of the total cost. Scroll down to enjoy the photos of those Insta-perfect meals. And if you need more proof that Japanese hospitals are just a step away from becoming high-class restaurants, read another woman’s testimony here.
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Pancakes for breakfast (while I was in labour – my husband ate most of it)
Lunch while in labour
Post C-section recovery food (I had 3-4 meals that were like this, only took a picture of this one)
First proper post-surgery meal
French toast for breakfast
Seafood pasta lunch
Afternoon snack
Evening meal
Japanese-style breakfast
Risotto for lunch
Afternoon snack
Birth celebration meal: starters (with non alcoholic sparkling wine)
Birth celebration meal: main course (steak!)
Birth celebration meal: dessert
Soup for breakfast
Pork for lunch
Afternoon snack
Pasta gratin for the evening meal
Final breakfast!
Looking at the pics, people instantly started drooling
What do you think ?
MagicalUnicorn 7 years ago
i would totally get pregnant and book tickets to japan just for food... not even ashamed to admit it.
Maci Wilcox 7 years ago
Wow...That food is better than the food at a lot of restaurants I've been to!
Hans 7 years ago
I believe if we would make healthcare holistic, i. e. Making people feel healthy and educate them how to be healthy, instead of merely threatening them (however good the medical procedures are), we would win so much. And in the long run even they costs of healthcare would decline.
Shari Custer 7 years ago
This is one of those things where you have to be careful not to generalize one person's experience to the entire country. This is an important part of her description, "“It was a little privately owned OB-GYN clinic." Public hospitals offer nice food. I was in the hospital twice when I lived in Japan and I enjoyed the few meals I had (I was there for surgery and often not allowed to eat), but this is much, much more extravagent than typical Japanese hospital food.
TropicalPanda 7 years ago
finally someone to explain it in context ,... thank you
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sloniu21 7 years ago
And this is in Poland :( posilki_w_...ch_10.jpeg 
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http://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/R56ktkpTURBXy85YWU4ZGQ0Y2JlZmIzYzkzNWZkOWY1MzU4NTFjZmM4NC5qcGeSlQLNA8AAwsOVAgDNA8DCww posilki-w-...u-g-R1.jpg 
birdhouse 7 years ago
QUESTION: What is their health care like? Is it like Canada, where we don't pay anything? Or more like the USA where you pay for everything on your own?
xpurinx 7 years ago
Extremely good, if not the best in the world - personally. Originally from the UK, I always thought the NHS was absolute c**p and private health was pretty much extortion. Here no matter what walk of life you are from, you will get amazing health care. Everyone needs to pay health insurance here but it is taken out of your salary, then the company/government pays the rest. Starts from about ¥20,000 per month so easily affordable and well worth it. One of the many reasons why I haven't been back to the UK for 5 years.
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
There was another thread on BP a few months ago on this very subject: https://www.boredpanda.com/hospital-food-japan-birth/
MagicalUnicorn 7 years ago
i would totally get pregnant and book tickets to japan just for food... not even ashamed to admit it.
Maci Wilcox 7 years ago
Wow...That food is better than the food at a lot of restaurants I've been to!
Hans 7 years ago
I believe if we would make healthcare holistic, i. e. Making people feel healthy and educate them how to be healthy, instead of merely threatening them (however good the medical procedures are), we would win so much. And in the long run even they costs of healthcare would decline.
Shari Custer 7 years ago
This is one of those things where you have to be careful not to generalize one person's experience to the entire country. This is an important part of her description, "“It was a little privately owned OB-GYN clinic." Public hospitals offer nice food. I was in the hospital twice when I lived in Japan and I enjoyed the few meals I had (I was there for surgery and often not allowed to eat), but this is much, much more extravagent than typical Japanese hospital food.
TropicalPanda 7 years ago
finally someone to explain it in context ,... thank you
Load More Replies... sloniu21 7 years ago
And this is in Poland :( posilki_w_...ch_10.jpeg z18510995V...ycznym.jpg http://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/R56ktkpTURBXy85YWU4ZGQ0Y2JlZmIzYzkzNWZkOWY1MzU4NTFjZmM4NC5qcGeSlQLNA8AAwsOVAgDNA8DCww posilki-w-...u-g-R1.jpg
birdhouse 7 years ago
QUESTION: What is their health care like? Is it like Canada, where we don't pay anything? Or more like the USA where you pay for everything on your own?
xpurinx 7 years ago
Extremely good, if not the best in the world - personally. Originally from the UK, I always thought the NHS was absolute c**p and private health was pretty much extortion. Here no matter what walk of life you are from, you will get amazing health care. Everyone needs to pay health insurance here but it is taken out of your salary, then the company/government pays the rest. Starts from about ¥20,000 per month so easily affordable and well worth it. One of the many reasons why I haven't been back to the UK for 5 years.
Load More Replies... Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
There was another thread on BP a few months ago on this very subject: https://www.boredpanda.com/hospital-food-japan-birth/
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