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
Banded cat-eyed snake Banded cat-eyed snake The banded cat-eyed snake ("Leptodeira annulata") is a species of medium-sized, mildly venomous, colubrid snake endemic to the New World. Additional common names include: cat-eyed night snake, "come sapo, culebra de pantano, culebra destenida, machete savane, mapana de agua, mapana tigre", and "ranera". It is found in Mexico, Central America, and South America, including the offshore islands of Margarita, and Trinidad and Tobago. Adults are about 750 mm (30 in) long and very slender. The head is distinct from the neck, and the large eyes have vertically elliptic pupils. The back is yellowish or brown with a