I'm a fan of ready meals and bought this Marks and Spencer Chinese Platter a few weeks ago. It was near it's Use By date and so was reduced in M&S at half the usual price. I bought it for tea that same night. I heated it in the oven for the stated time but it wasn't a great platter of food in my honest opinion and I was very disappointed with it on the whole. It doesn't look nice when you remove the cardboard wrapping. The food looks all the same colour which is basically beige and this in itself put me right off. It has half a crispy duck (but when it ws cooked it wsn't so much crispy as very very greasy and sickly) and the fat had splatterd ...  Read the complete review

A couple of days ago I bought a Chinese platter from Marks & Spencer. I have had some really nice ready meals from there lately, but this time I was really disappointed. The platter contains a Quarter of crispy duck with 6 pancakes, hoisin sauce, fresh cucumber and shredded spring onions, 4 vegetable spring rolls and 4 sesame prawn toasts. The first disappointment was when I was taking everything out of the box. The Use by date was the 12th of May and I opened the box on the 11th. The cucumber and spring onions had gone bad, and they weren't just turning either. The cucumber was total mush and the onions had gone brown and slimy. ...  Read the complete review