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
Many-banded tree snake are about 875 mm (34.5 in) in total length. It is found in India (Himachal Pradesh up to Sikkim), Nepal and Bhutan. Many-banded tree snake The many-banded tree snake, Boiga multifasciata, is a species of rear-fanged colubrid. Not much is known about it and it is rated as "data deficient" by the IUCN. Dorsally, it is grayish with oblique black crossbars, and has a series of whitish spots along the vertebral line. On the head, it has a pair of black streaks from the prefrontals to the occiput, another black streak from the eye to the commissure of the jaws,