I sometimes chuckle at the dish names in a chinese menu. The other day we went to Sichuanese Cuisine Restaurant to get some dinner, and I saw a dish named “Ant On The Tree.” I immediately knew I was going to get that because I was curious to see what it’ll look like.
Well, it didn’t turn out exactly what I had expected. Ant On The Tree was actually a clear rice noodle dish cooked with pork and a spicy sauce. The “Ants” I gather were probably the loosely cooked pork meat, but I couldn’t figure out how the noodles came to be the “Tree” that the “Ants” were on. Even though it’s a noodle dish it was flavored quite heavily, so it came with a side of white steamed rice to neutralize it a little. I thought it tasted okay, but afterwards I had a funny aftertaste in my mouth.
We also got their cashew chicken because it’s a basic dish in Chinese cuisine, and we know what it’ll taste like without any major surprises. It turned out pretty much as we expected. The dish had chicken, cabbage, onions, and a generous amount of cashew, and it was by far the more pleasant of the two to eat.
Sichuanese Cuisine Restaurant
2001 Coit Road, #315
Plano, TX 75075
972-758-0808
Tags: szechuan, chinese, fusion