General Mills UK Ltd under the trademark Wanchai Ferry has recently launched three Chinese Recipe Kits: Bo Luo Pork, Kung Pao Chicken and Xiang Gu Chicken. Each kit is packed in an impressively large and colourful box that retails for up to ?3.49 each. Each box contains a packet of noodles (150g) and three sachets: marinade powder, sauce and a ?key? ingredient for each recipe - pineapple pieces, dried shitake mushrooms or roasted peanuts, respectively. In the case of the Bo Lou Pork kit, for example: The active ingredients in the marinade are salt, sugar and black pepper (20g). The ?Cantonese? sauce is a mixture of tomato paste, sugar, citric acid and water with a little ginger (125g). The ?key? ingredient is pineapple pieces in syrup (200g). The buyer has to supply the pork (or chicken) along with three of the following vegetables: carrot, onion, leek, mangetout or red pepper, depending on the recipe. Preparation is straightforward - it's basically a stir-fry with noodles. Each kit makes two small to medium size servings. As for taste, the list of ingredients contains far too many preservatives, stabilisers and anonymous flavourings for me to actually eat this stuff - I'd be interested to hear what others think of these kits, though. The individual ingredients in each kit can be purchased separately for less than ?1.00! More at: http://www.wanchaiferry.co.uk