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
Florida banded water snake the lower sides is sometimes darker than the crossbands, producing an appearance of alternating blotches on the back and sides. The Florida water snake differs from the southern water snake ("N. f. fasciata") chiefly in the shape of the markings on the ventrals. In "N. f.pictiventris", these markings consist of transverse blotches, many of them enclosing an oval white spot, whereas in "N. f. fasciata", they are solid, squarish spots. Adults average in total length. They are ovoviviparous. Mating occurs from March to May, and the young are born from May to August, in broods of 25-57. The newborns are