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 racer 1060 mm (3.5 feet); tail 220 mm (8.5 inches). Shaw's original description of the species was based on a plate in Russell, Ind. Serp. (1796). Banded racer The banded racer ("Argyrogena fasciolata") is a species of colubrid snake, the genus Argyrogena. It is found in India except for North Bengal and Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. Snout obtuse, curved and prominent; rostral large, broader than wide, the portion visible from above more than half its length from the frontal; suture between the internasals as long as that between the prefrontals or a little shorter; frontal nearly as long