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Ma Yi Shang Shu (Ants Climbing a Tree, Glass Noodles with Minced Pork)
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Ma Yi Shang Shu (Ants Climbing a Tree, Glass Noodles with Minced Pork) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the mung bean vermicelli in warm water 10 minutes until pliable, then drain.
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Heat the oil in a wok over medium-high heat and stir-fry the ground pork until browned and crumbly, about 3 minutes.
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Add the doubanjiang, garlic and ginger and stir-fry 30 seconds until fragrant and the oil turns red.
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Add the soaked vermicelli and the chicken broth, tossing to coat.
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Add the soy sauce and simmer 3 minutes, stirring often, until the noodles have absorbed almost all the liquid and cling to the pork.
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Scatter with scallions and serve; the flecks of pork clinging to the noodles give the dish its name.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ma Yi Shang Shu (Ants Climbing a Tree, Glass Noodles with Minced Pork), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Ma Yi Shang Shu (Ants Climbing a Tree, Glass Noodles with Minced Pork) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 530 kcal
- Protein
- 15 g
- Carbs
- 48 g
- Fat
- 31 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 1300 mg
- Saturated fat
- 6 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ma Yi Shang Shu (Ants Climbing a Tree, Glass Noodles with Minced Pork) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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