Snake soup in cooking varies from place to place but water snake and python snake are popular choices. Chinese cobra, Banded krait, Indo-Chinese Rat Snake, Tri-rope beauty snake and Hundred-pace viper are commonly used in snake soups. At many restaurants that serve snake soups, customers are able to choose, according to their preference, live snakes to be prepared. Snake meat is light pink in color. On a par with fish, snake meat tastes much richer and is chewier than the former. Ramy Inocencio of CNN describes that "Minced dark mushrooms, finely julienned chicken, fragrant chopped ginger and other herbs and spices fill
Brown-banded water snake nape, and are arranged in 19 rows. Ventrals are 102-130 in number, the anal scale is divided, and the 61-94 subcaudals are paired and keeled. "H. angulatus" lives in fresh and brackish water, where it feeds on fish and possibly also freshwater eels and frogs. "H. angulatus" has been reported to be "facultatively ovoviviparous". Brown-banded water snake The brown-banded water snake ("Helicops angulatus") is a species of aquatic snake found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. The brown-banded water snake grows to a maximum total length (including tail) of 78 cm (31 inches). Dorsally, it is olive or