It’s a Sichuan dish, so you probably won’t find it on any of the Hong Kong/South China menus popular in the US. I’ve had it in Southern California and at a family-owned restaurant in Texas.
I’ve never made it myself, but I’ve enjoyed it in restaurants. I probably wouldn’t have ordered it, of course, if I hadn’t known in advance that neither real ants nor real trees were part of the dish
Jean Auel, despite not really being a writer in the sense that Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Barbara Mertz PhD (“Elizabeth Peters”), and others were/are, is widely regarded as an excellent researcher and her portrayals of paleolithic life accurate. The majority of Neandertaler and Cro Magnon people lived in cooperative communities and most enjoyed short (in our terms) but healthy, well-fed, complex lives.
Sure. Try it yourself, with a wall. Stand with your back to the wall and swing your right arm, hitting the wall with the back of your hand. Perfectly easy.
The most important part is that the cat is an imaginary cat, as is the box, the poison, the particle generator, and the detector. No actual cat was ever involved or intended to be involved. Schrödinger had an unhappy interest in young girls, but there doesn’t seem to be any record of him being cruel to cats
That’s where the Second Amendment comes into it. Slap the face (or kick the crotch) of anyone who still says we should give up the Second.