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Pictured below was our first Chinese PLA and it was an interesting one, enjoyable in its own right, too.




Date Code - 2015


Menu 01 Package = Dark Green, Far Left
- Top Left = Spicy Potherb Mustard
- Top Left Adjacent = Orange Drink
- Below Orange Drink = Egg Roll Stuffed /w Minced Beef
- Middle Right = Cereal Bar ( 1 of 2 )
- Far Right = Cereal Bar ( 2 of 2 )


Cereal Bars

Cereal bars (Reverse)

Main Package:
- Orange Drink
- Nutrition Facts
- 10g

Main Package:
- Spicy Potherb Mustard
- Nutrition Facts
- 20g

Main Package:
- Egg Roll Stuffed /w Minced Beef
- Nutrition Facts
- 40g

Orange Drink (Prep.)

Orange Drink - A little more tang and a different flavor than some of the US Rations.

Cereal Bars (Wrapped)

Cereal Bars (UnWrapped) - Hard bars, and highly dense. Only a subtle flavor is present. Definitely the main source of carbs.

Spicy Potherb Mustard - Leaves a burn on your tongue...Reminds me of Oriental Seaweed.

Egg Roll Stuffed /w Minced Beef - Remember when you were a kid and wanted to eat the cookie dough; It has that appeal to the dough part - you'll crave to eat it, but it doesn't satisfy your taste buds. Instead it leaves a subtle Wanton // Egg-Roll type flavor. The Minced Beef reminds me of a spam-like-meat, but it was not intolerable. I wish there was a heater and salt.

We can wait to try a Chinese Type 13 Combat Ration next!

Welcome to the forums DispAtch Thanks for starting right out with a review - great, clear pictures!

Thank you Ruleryak, glad to be a member!! We'll keep them coming.

Great review, thank you for sharing and welcome to forums.

Great review and welcome to the forum. Your photos were outstanding.

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Your SPAM type egg roll/dumping looked better than the one I tried. The swirls give it a appealing look. I also thought it was not that bad.
Did you think the sea weed mustard had a bit of vinegar in the pouch?

I wonder why there is no rice of soft noddle pouch, Or no tea and sugar?

I tried compressed bars and thought they were very filling. In fact I kept one in my canoe bag for emergency use
For a supplement or emergency food source it is outstanding. ( don't know the nutritional value but It seems filling) If you went hiking on the AT and had a few of those stashed away you would have piece of mind. The next one I get I am going to try it with hot water as a porridge.

Nice review, and welcome to forums!

Great pics and review! Too bad the cereal bars does not have a taste to it, like lemon or orange or something...

Norton wrote:Great review and welcome to the forum. Your photos were outstanding.

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Your SPAM type egg roll/dumping looked better than the one I tried. The swirls give it a appealing look. I also thought it was not that bad.
Did you think the sea weed mustard had a bit of vinegar in the pouch?

I wonder why there is no rice of soft noddle pouch, Or no tea and sugar?

I tried compressed bars and thought they were very filling. In fact I kept one in my canoe bag for emergency use
For a supplement or emergency food source it is outstanding. ( don't know the nutritional value but It seems filling) If you went hiking on the AT and had a few of those stashed away you would have piece of mind. The next one I get I am going to try it with hot water as a porridge.

There are civilian emergency food bars on sale in America which are similar I think, it would be interesting to compare them with these.

This PLA ration type is the FSR/D-ration equivalent as opposed to the MRE-equivalent with chem-heaters. Hence the reliance on the compressed bars rather than rice and noodles.

P.s. the date format is yyyy mm dd so the date stamp is 3rd April 2015

I've had the mainstay bars and would say they're similar in density and nutrients. The US bars tend to be lemon flavored by default, whereas the PLA bars are more of a general cereal flavor. They're slightly sweet, and would probably go well crumbled up with some milk. In an emergency you could crumble them, add a little water, and add coffee creamer packets from MRE or other ration accessory packs. I have a packed bar loose by itself somewhere - will have to try that.