What is the story of the Chinese dish ants climbing a tree?
What is the story of the Chinese dish ants climbing a tree? The Chinese, the Italians and the Arabs all used to claim having invented the noodle. Then, in 2005 in Lajia in the Chinese province of Qinghai, archeologists unearthed “an upturned earthenware bowl filled with brownish-yellow, fine clay. When they lifted the inverted container, the noodles were found sitting proud on the cone of sediment left behind.” The quote is from a report entitled “Oldest noodles unearthed in China” published in October 12, 2005 by BBC News. The relic was 4,000 years old. Until someone digs up an older relic elsewhere, I think it’s safe to say that the Chinese invented the noodle. History says that long before European explorers lost their way in the Pacific and landed in our islands, the pre-Hispanic Filipinos have been trading with the Chinese. And noodles found their way into the country, the beginning of a culinary love affair that would prove strong and steadfast over centuries of multiple coloniza
