Food Adventures 15:Snake soup




Unbelievable to the foreigners? It’s snake!!!
source: http://www.diarygrowingboy.com/2010/12/stuffed-like-duck.html
 
 

Snake soup is a popular Cantonese delicious and healthy dish in Hong Kong, which contains at least two types of snake meat as main ingredients. The taste of the soup a slightly sweet flavor with chrysanthemum leaves and the texture of snake meat is actually similar to chicken flavor.

A typical snake soup recipe requires at least two types of snakes, their meat was shredded into wires boiled with chicken, lean meat, fish maw, mushrooms, ginger, lemon leaves and other spices. The mixture is stewed over six hours seasoning with salt pepper and soy sauce to taste. Corn starch is added to make it into thicken soup rather than broth. Snake is in pale pink color. Compared with fish and chicken, snakes taste is richer and chewier.

 


The cabinets storing live snakes.
source: http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2049819

Snake soup has been a long historical delicacy in Chinese culture for more than two thousand years. Snake soup is considered a high class dish because of its variety of components and complex preparation. It is a symbol of wealth, courage and respect. It was only served to the certain officials and celebrities and became common in the later. Nowadays in Hong Kong, the number of snake soup store has declined because of food price inflation and rising rents. It is also difficult to find a successor. Fewer people enter the industry because of the difficult and dangerous preparation process.

 

source: http://www.nanzao.com/sc/lifestyle/16665/she-geng-xiang-gang-ren-de-nuan-dong-jia-pin

 

Hong Kong's history is scattered in every corner of every street. Snake soup store is one of them. Having a sib of snake soup and been served by the old waiters, you can find a smell of old Hong Kong style.