The main ingredients for ants to climb trees are vermicelli, minced meat, garlic sprouts, celery, bean paste, soy sauce, shallots and chicken essence.

1. Ant on the tree is a Sichuan dish, which is made by mixing minced meat and vermicelli with spicy seasoning. The fried minced meat and tender vermicelli filled with spicy seasoning fully show the spicy taste of Sichuan cuisine.

2. It's named because minced meat is tiny and distributed on vermicelli like ants, just like ants climbing a tree. Because the main ingredients of "ants on the tree" are minced meat and vermicelli, it is also commonly known as "minced meat vermicelli".