I'm being asked by a friend of a friend who is planning to visit to help translate a peanut allergy information card into Khmer so they can carry it in their wallet and show it at restaurants before they order. And also in the case of an emergency, be taken to hospital.
Please could I ask for help (Joon?) to have the following translated into Khmer at a level and clarity that most restaurant staff will be able to understand.
'I have a severe food allergy. No nuts, nut oil, peanuts or peanut oil!
If I eat nuts or peanuts or any food that have been cooked with them or touched them including food preparation surfaces and utensils, I will need immediate medical attention.'
'I urgently need medical help, please call a doctor'
'Please take me to a hospital, please call a doctor who speaks English'
Thanks.
Peanut Allergy Emergency info
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Even if it's printed in Khmer, if someone hands that note to a waitress she'll just stare at it and smile and hand it back and say "OK."
If I had a severe peanut allergy and were visiting Cambodia I would only eat in places with on site Western management and would discuss the allergy with them before ordering.
If I had a severe peanut allergy and were visiting Cambodia I would only eat in places with on site Western management and would discuss the allergy with them before ordering.
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Agree, from experience with a colleague working here for a few years, GM is spot on. If it is any use to you, Comme a la Maison was his 'go to' place for food that understood his allergy.gavinmac wrote:Even if it's printed in Khmer, if someone hands that note to a waitress she'll just stare at it and smile and hand it back and say "OK."
If I had a severe peanut allergy and were visiting Cambodia I would only eat in places with on site Western management and would discuss the allergy with them before ordering.
Everything else is a big risk, even my wife translated the same when he ordered elsewhere for a simple burger - and sure enough "OK" was the answer, then the burger arrived with a bun with sesame seeds - thankfully the burger itself had no nuts! Another time at Van's restaurant a dish arrived 'without nuts', except for the walnuts of course - those aren't peanuts so don't count! Poor sod, definitely not an envious situation to be in, even with a Khmer speaker present.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Fuck that. I'd rather have any another allergy than a peanut allergy.
Isn't there a process where they introduce larger doses of peanut into the diet of a sufferer?
Isn't there a process where they introduce larger doses of peanut into the diet of a sufferer?
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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Does your friend use an auto injector, if so should reference be made to that? Just a thought.
In the longer term, GM work will one day, it is hoped remove this anaphylaxic trigger but it will take a long time, even in developed countries.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... ldren.html
In the longer term, GM work will one day, it is hoped remove this anaphylaxic trigger but it will take a long time, even in developed countries.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... ldren.html
Nothing but an opinionated tourist. The Pope spends more time in countries than I do ! It is also not my place to comment on a gentleman's dress. A real 23 minute wonder, that obviously knows little about ovens and cooking in Cambodia.
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I think this is a bit like saying you're a vegetarian, and the waitress saying "it's OK, there's no meat" while the dish is made with beef broth / has chicken / etc, because those things "aren't meat." I would think that for a nut allergy, you'd want to be as specific as possible, listing out as much as possible. I would also be most worried that they are using the same pan that had previously been used with peanut oil, etc, without being washed properly.Spigzy wrote:Agree, from experience with a colleague working here for a few years, GM is spot on. If it is any use to you, Comme a la Maison was his 'go to' place for food that understood his allergy.gavinmac wrote:Even if it's printed in Khmer, if someone hands that note to a waitress she'll just stare at it and smile and hand it back and say "OK."
If I had a severe peanut allergy and were visiting Cambodia I would only eat in places with on site Western management and would discuss the allergy with them before ordering.
Everything else is a big risk, even my wife translated the same when he ordered elsewhere for a simple burger - and sure enough "OK" was the answer, then the burger arrived with a bun with sesame seeds - thankfully the burger itself had no nuts! Another time at Van's restaurant a dish arrived 'without nuts', except for the walnuts of course - those aren't peanuts so don't count! Poor sod, definitely not an envious situation to be in, even with a Khmer speaker present.
My wife is allergic to bell peppers, which we always have to tell wait staff. Even in nice restaurants in the West, if we don't also specify "and paprika," dishes may come out with paprika, because they may not realize that paprika is the flower of the bell pepper. With a food allergy, never assume that someone may be familiar it, and explain as much as possible.
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I would have had no idea that paprika is related to bell peppers.Miguelito wrote:I think this is a bit like saying you're a vegetarian, and the waitress saying "it's OK, there's no meat" while the dish is made with beef broth / has chicken / etc, because those things "aren't meat." I would think that for a nut allergy, you'd want to be as specific as possible, listing out as much as possible. I would also be most worried that they are using the same pan that had previously been used with peanut oil, etc, without being washed properly.Spigzy wrote:Agree, from experience with a colleague working here for a few years, GM is spot on. If it is any use to you, Comme a la Maison was his 'go to' place for food that understood his allergy.gavinmac wrote:Even if it's printed in Khmer, if someone hands that note to a waitress she'll just stare at it and smile and hand it back and say "OK."
If I had a severe peanut allergy and were visiting Cambodia I would only eat in places with on site Western management and would discuss the allergy with them before ordering.
Everything else is a big risk, even my wife translated the same when he ordered elsewhere for a simple burger - and sure enough "OK" was the answer, then the burger arrived with a bun with sesame seeds - thankfully the burger itself had no nuts! Another time at Van's restaurant a dish arrived 'without nuts', except for the walnuts of course - those aren't peanuts so don't count! Poor sod, definitely not an envious situation to be in, even with a Khmer speaker present.
My wife is allergic to bell peppers, which we always have to tell wait staff. Even in nice restaurants in the West, if we don't also specify "and paprika," dishes may come out with paprika, because they may not realize that paprika is the flower of the bell pepper. With a food allergy, never assume that someone may be familiar it, and explain as much as possible.
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Me neither - I thought that was just a mis-translation because there's so many places (not just in Cambodia) where if you want green peppers (bell peppers) on your pizza, you have to ask for "Paprika".gavinmac wrote:I would have had no idea that paprika is related to bell peppers.Miguelito wrote:I think this is a bit like saying you're a vegetarian, and the waitress saying "it's OK, there's no meat" while the dish is made with beef broth / has chicken / etc, because those things "aren't meat." I would think that for a nut allergy, you'd want to be as specific as possible, listing out as much as possible. I would also be most worried that they are using the same pan that had previously been used with peanut oil, etc, without being washed properly.Spigzy wrote:Agree, from experience with a colleague working here for a few years, GM is spot on. If it is any use to you, Comme a la Maison was his 'go to' place for food that understood his allergy.gavinmac wrote:Even if it's printed in Khmer, if someone hands that note to a waitress she'll just stare at it and smile and hand it back and say "OK."
If I had a severe peanut allergy and were visiting Cambodia I would only eat in places with on site Western management and would discuss the allergy with them before ordering.
Everything else is a big risk, even my wife translated the same when he ordered elsewhere for a simple burger - and sure enough "OK" was the answer, then the burger arrived with a bun with sesame seeds - thankfully the burger itself had no nuts! Another time at Van's restaurant a dish arrived 'without nuts', except for the walnuts of course - those aren't peanuts so don't count! Poor sod, definitely not an envious situation to be in, even with a Khmer speaker present.
My wife is allergic to bell peppers, which we always have to tell wait staff. Even in nice restaurants in the West, if we don't also specify "and paprika," dishes may come out with paprika, because they may not realize that paprika is the flower of the bell pepper. With a food allergy, never assume that someone may be familiar it, and explain as much as possible.
As a lifelong nut allergy sufferer, allow me to say this:
1. If you haven't developed a sense of what's safe and what's not by the time you get here, you'd be dead already.
2. Having a printed card with information is not effective. You need to learn the words at the very least for peanuts (sundaek daei) and cashews (svay chhanty) and emphasize three or four times that you CANNOT eat that (ot baan nyam taeng au!). Then you at least have a shot at not getting an allergic reaction.
3. Please tell me you're traveling with an Anakit including injectable adrenalin. If not, you're a fool.
4. To those who asked, yes, long-term exposure reduces the impacts. But those impacts are still pretty unpleasant and can be fatal if the allergy is particularly acute.
5. I have only been fooled with weird shit for a long time now, like people putting crushed cashews on minestrone soup to add some kind of extra flavour to it or something like that (WTF?). But if you're highly allergic to peanut oil, I'd actually recommend you going into the kitchen to look at what they use, and to mime something to the effect that if they wok up a bunch of chicken and cashews etc. then make your food that you'll die. I know what the reactions are like, and it's worth the embarrassment and effort because just by making a fuss, you'll increase the likelihood that they won't do it since they'll figure out that you're serious.
6. Allergies suck. But if you persevere, they get better as you get older.
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