Glass Noodles with Minced Pork, Shiitake and Garlic Chives

This is my version of a famous Yunnan dish often called ‘ants climbing a tree’ noodles. It is made with minced meat, often pork, but whatever mince you use it’s the way the meat clings to the noodles as you lift them that gives it the rather poetic name. I’m using mung bean noodles (also called cellophane or bean thread noodles) for this recipe, but any kind of noodle is fine, such as thin rice or wheat noodles. You just need to adjust the timing for the noodles to cook through.