1, Guangdong people eat many kinds of snakes, including many poisonous snakes. Some people will say, don't you worry about poisoning after eating poisonous snakes? In fact, not all poisonous snakes are eaten in Guangdong. There are only seven or eight kinds of poisonous snakes that can be eaten. The most common are cobra, golden ring snake and banyan tree. These poisonous snakes are poisonous only in the fangs of snake heads, and there is no toxin in snake meat.

2. Guangdong people like to eat snakes. First, snake meat is tender, delicious and rich in nutrition. Second, snake meat has the dietotherapy effect of eliminating dampness and detoxifying, which is in line with the climate characteristics of excessive humidity in Guangdong. Guangdong people like to eat snakes all year round, but the best season to eat snakes is after autumn, when the weather turns cold. This is the best time to eat snakes for tonic, and the snake meat is also the most plump at this time.

There are many ways for Cantonese people to eat snakes. Most restaurants cook salted snake meat, stewed snake segments and precious "Long Hudou", "Three Snake Soup" and "Dragon and Phoenix Banquet". Most people eat simple and easy-to-make snake hot pot, and the snake meat must be cooked to avoid eating parasites; Or "Poria Turtle and Snake Soup" stewed with chicken, turtle and Chinese herbal medicine, and "Three Snake Soup" stewed with Zanthoxylum bungeanum root to eliminate dampness and detoxify.

There used to be a "snake wang xia" shop in Jincheng Building, Dongmen South Road, Shenzhen. In addition to selling all kinds of old fire snake soup and aged snake wine, the most famous one is "Chrysanthemum Three Snake Soup", which has the functions of warming meridians, dispelling cold and removing arthralgia, nourishing and strengthening. In this soup, three kinds of snakes are boned and shredded into shredded pork, and ingredients such as ginger, dried tangerine peel, longan pulp, bamboo cane water, Shaoxing wine and so on are added to simmer until cooked. Finally, water chestnut powder is used to thicken them. If you add silver ring snake (commonly known as "crossing the base gorge") and "three lines" snake meat, it will become "five snake soup", and it will be more delicious with a handful of fresh chrysanthemum petals and coriander.

Since the country promulgated the Regulations on the Protection of Wild Animals and experienced SARS, all restaurants no longer operate this Lingnan flavor. Now, it is difficult to find a bowl of snake soup and snake soup to satisfy their desire.