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liuzhou

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32 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

I have just had a half-hour tutorlal from three nurses and a random visitor on how to access and navigate the cellphone app containing the hospital's full menu and how to place my orders which will be delivered to my bed.

 

This makes it sound like quite a complex procedure! Hope it's not!  🙂

 

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23 minutes ago, FauxPas said:

 

This makes it sound like quite a complex procedure! Hope it's not!  🙂

 

 

No, it isn't at all complicated. The antics of my tutors were complicated.

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40 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

That looks nice. How does the cost compare to the restaurant delivery you got at the previous hospital or at home?

 

 

About the same or slightly cheaper. They are saving on cross-town deliveries.

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Here are a few random (almost) screenshots from the hospital's ordering app. The translations in blue are mine - the app is 100% Chinese. I've tried to pick random pages from different food categories.

 

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Then we have the set meals which give no details other than price. Here is the crap to avoid.

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酸菜肉末 (suān cài ròu mò) - Minced pork with pickled vegetables.

土豆丝肉 (tǔ dòu sī ròu) - Vinegared potato and carrot slivers with pork.

 

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Pork Brain Spare Rib soup? 

 

Does the app monitor for any dietary restrictions that a patient might need (e.g, the dr says no X but a dish uses it as an ingredient so it would be flagged as unavailable to order)?

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Pork Brain Spare Rib soup? 

 

Does the app monitor for any dietary restrictions that a patient might need (e.g, the dr says no X but a dish uses it as an ingredient so it would be flagged as unavailable to order)?

 

I don't believe so. They aren't that sophisticated. I don't think they even employ a nutritionist.

 

That said, I'm not sure what health-based reason there would be for proscribing that particular dish! 😷

 

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I messed up dinner and missed the deadine for ordering (which I hadn't been told about). Sweet talking a nurse led to me getting a meal on condition that I accepted whatever the kitchen sent - a risky proposition, but one I had no choice but to accept.

 

I'm sure what they sent is not on the menu in this format. It was a bit of everything they happened to have, but actually quite good.

 

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Stir fried chicken with onion, Chinese yam, carrots, wood-ear fungus, potato. Rice. More than I could eat. Equivalent of $1.50 USD.

 

All tomorrow's meals have been ordered.

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18 hours ago, JeanneCake said:

Pork Brain Spare Rib soup? 

 

This should be in the AI thread. Just type in Pork, Brain, Spare rib. AI will churn through all recipes and come up with "Soup." Clever, innit? I wouldn't have thought of that myself, that's for sure.

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This should be in the AI thread. Just type in Pork, Brain, Spare rib. AI will churn through all recipes and come up with "Soup." Clever, innit? I wouldn't have thought of that myself, that's for sure.

 

I typed "pork brain spare rib" into Eat Your Books but did not get any hits.  Obviously my book collection is lacking.  Lots of results for "pork brain" however.

 

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I typed "pork brain spare rib" into Eat Your Books but did not get any hits.  Obviously my book collection is lacking.  Lots of results for "pork brain" however.

 


It’s in “Compendium of Chinese Hospital Cooking, Vol. 9”, page 844f.

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It’s in “Compendium of Chinese Hospital Cooking, Vol. 9”, page 844f.

 I knew I’d seen it somewhere.  

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9 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I typed "pork brain spare rib" into Eat Your Books but did not get any hits.

 

It has long been a staple of TCM and folk medicine. My late wife's favourite, too.

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肉粥 (ròu zhōu) There is, I'm sure, no way to make congee look good. This was pork congee and my breakfast. Very good it was, too.

 

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There is, I'm sure, no way to make congee look good.


Well, I had congee for the very first time when I was hospitalized for four days with pneumonia, and I can tell you it looked really good to me and in fact it was so good that I ordered it every day for breakfast. Could have had something to do with how sick I was, I suppose. 😁 

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I have learned that although the hospital does not employ a nutritionist directly, a woman fulfills that role freelance with the hospital's cooperation, charging the patients directly.

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Dinner:

 

鸡汤 (jī tāng) - Chicken Soup (Very meaty)

 

香菇炒鸡肉 (xiāng gū chǎo jī ròu) - Stir Fried Chicken with Shiitake

 

Sort of overdid the chicken when I ordered.

 

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Finally, I get something with a bit of spicy heat in a Chinese hospital. Perusing the menu app I noticed their take on 辣子鸡 (là zi jī), my favourite Sichuan dish of chicken with chilli peppers. I clicked!

 

At noon today, it arrived for lunch as requested. The green chillies wouldn't pass muster in Sichuan, but it was good and spicy. With rice, natch.

 

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