Eating China: For a simple, filling, and spicy dish try ants

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For a simple, filling, and spicy dish try ants May 6th 2011, 08:07 Home by myself last night. Didn't want to eat out. Didn't have much in the fridge. But when I poked around a bit to find some leftover mixed pork tucked away in the back, and a bag of mung bean noodles in the pantry, only one dish sprang to mind: ants climbing a tree. It is a well-known Chinese dish of Sichuan origin. The main ingredients are minced pork, and mung bean noodles. If you cook regularly you will likely have most of the minor ingredients already. It is easy and quick to make: even though you need to marinate the meat mix for a while, you can be sitting down to eat 45 minutes after you start. Like a lot of Chinese dishes it does not require military precision to end of with tasty food; you can add or vary ingredients a bit (for example, my recipe calls for chicken stock, I didn't have any, so I used beef; not as good but good enough). Everyone I have ever cooked this dish for seems to like it, even those who normally avoid spicy food. Try it: recipe for Chinese ants climbing a tree

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