Classic Sichuan home-style dish: mung-bean vermicelli (
粉丝) stir-fried with spiced minced pork, douban chili paste, and scallions. The name is visual — specks of dark pork clinging to translucent noodles look like ants climbing twigs. Folk tradition attributes it to the Yuan-dynasty heroine Dou E
窦娥, who supposedly invented it to feed her bedridden mother-in-law cheaply.
