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 flying snake Banded flying snake The twin-barred tree snake ("Chrysopelea pelias") is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia. It is also called the banded flying snake. It can glide, as with all species of its genus "Chrysopelea", by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs. It is mostly found in moist forests and can cover a horizontal distance of about 100 metres in a glide from the top of a tree. It is an oviparous snake. "Chrysopelea pelias" has an overlapping range with the paradise tree snake ("Chrysopelea paradisi") in Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and Indonesia. However, "Chrysopelea