Ants on the Tree is the name of a Sichuan dish.

Ants on the tree is actually minced meat vermicelli, which is made by boiling minced meat and vermicelli and stirring them with spicy seasoning, or you can directly spread the seasoning on the surface of minced meat, and then guests can stir and eat it by themselves after it is served, which is fresh, spicy, and soft, elastic and flavorful, which is loved by people.

The vermicelli with minced meat is relatively long and thin, and the tiny minced meat seems to be attached to the vermicelli as if it were small ants, so when the vermicelli is picked up, it is as if the ants are climbing up the tree, so this dish has been given a symbolic name, "Ants on the Tree". The exact history of this dish is not well documented, but it has been a common dish in Sichuan and Chongqing.

Ants on the tree with minced meat, vermicelli as the main ingredient, fenugreek cloth, green onions, ginger, bean paste, chili peppers, etc., as a supplementary ingredient, *** with the collocation of fried and become, but also according to the personal taste of the choice of auxiliary materials, the production of the completion of the red color, smooth and tasty. Ants on the tree is one of the special traditional dishes of Sichuan Province, not only appearing on the tables of various families, but also one of the necessary dishes in local restaurants.

Legendary Allusion to Ants on the Tree

It is said that this dish was invented by Dou'e. Dou E is Guan Hanqing's miscellaneous drama "Dou E Grievance" protagonist, her father Dou Tianzhang before leaving for Beijing to do the official, Dou E handed over to the Cai grandmother to offset the debt, Dou E in the Cai family hard work, full filial piety to her mother-in-law, serving her husband, living a fairly happy life, but the good times do not last long, her husband passed away from an illness, and her mother-in-law is bedridden, Dou E had to pick up the family's heavy burden because of the lack of income, the family's day to day constraints The company's newest product is a new product that will be available on credit for the next few years.

On this day, Dou E went to buy meat as usual, and the owner of the meat shop was reluctant to give her credit, but she was unable to resist Dou E's persistent pleas and cut a small piece of meat for her. To the home she began to worry, what to do with the meal well, suddenly she saw the New Year's Eve left over a little fan, Dou E had an idea, with boiling water to soften the fan, and cut the meat into minced, the onion, ginger pot, and into the soy sauce, fan, stir-frying for a few moments, add shredded green garlic, pepper, on the completion of the taste of a light and refreshing, bright red color of the cuisine.

Mother-in-law tasted it and praised it, and because of her presbyopia, she looked at the dish like an ant climbing a tree, so she named the dish Ants on the Tree.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia - Ants on the Tree