Vietnam has been a world of snakes since ancient times, to borrow the words of a tourist who came to Vietnam to describe the number of Vietnamese snakes - there are snakes on planes, snakes on the airport, snakes on the street, snakes in rooms, and even snakes in bathtubs. The abundance of snake resources has created a unique snake industry, especially the Zhoushan cobra living in Vietnam, from snake skin, snake meat, snake venom, internal organs to blood.
Snake venom
Snake venom wine in Vietnam is not something that ordinary people can taste, and people who taste snake venom wine must have enough courage and self-confidence, and also ensure that there are no wounds in their digestive system, otherwise snake venom will enter the body and be poisoned. Snake venom wine is made from the venom of cobras, the most common cobra in Vietnam is the Zhoushan cobra, which is mainly distributed in China and northern Vietnam. Making snake venom wine requires taking poison from live cobras, so that professional operations require professional people to complete. The venom required to make snake venom wine is different from the usual way of taking poison, the poisoner bites the mouth of the cobra and holds the wine glass, and then massages the venom glands of the cobra to let it naturally flow out of the venom, and the venom that drips into the wine is mixed to make a Vietnamese cobra venom wine. In the eyes of the Vietnamese, such live snake poisonous wine has a strong aphrodisiac effect, so it is especially suitable for men to taste. Coincidentally, there is also a culture of this snake venom in Thailand, and in Japan, snake venom mainly uses the venom of the yellow-green soldering iron-headed snake. In addition to snake venom wine, there are also entire cobras that are used as a material for brewing wine.
Snake meat
Using snake meat to make food is a very common dish throughout Southeast Asian countries, and snake meat is considered a medicinal ingredient to treat skin diseases and asthma and also increase masculinity. In Vietnam snake meat is often made into snake soup, snake meat bacon, snake bone and snake oil rice cake. Snake meat in Vietnam has become an industrial chain, from breeding, transportation, trafficking and catering. The main method of cobra meat in the Philippines is to make snake soup, which they like to cook in a pressure cooker. In Indonesia, locals like to sell snake meat as a barbecue, and roasted snake meat is more appetizing than snake soup. In Thailand, frying snake meat is also a street snack, especially snake skin can also be fried to become a good choice for small wine dishes. The cobra skin is very hard, and the cobra uses boiling water to remove the hard scales before being made into snake meat, and then brushes off the scales with a brush.
Snakeskin
Snakeskin is arguably the most valuable part of a cobra, and there has been a tradition in Southeast Asian countries and India to export cobra skins for leather goods. Processed cobra skins were exported to Europe for luxury wallets, bags, shoes and belts. Not only the snake skin of the cobra can be used to make leather goods, but also the leather goods used to make python skin and lizard skin are the best in leather goods. The cobra skin used to make leather goods requires the whole snake skin, can not have any damage, after killing the cobra, the dead snake rolled into a snake roll into the oven baking, after peeling the cobra meat can also be used to make snake meat. Indian cobras were also often hunted and exported to Europe as leather goods, and with the indiscriminate killing of Indian cobras by Indians, the number of Indian cobras fell sharply until the Indian government introduced a law to protect wild Indian cobras to ensure the wild population of Indian cobras.
Snake blood and snake gall
The snake blood of the cobra can be made into snake blood wine for sale to diners, and the snake killer uses it to stab the cobra's throat and mix the cobra blood into rice wine to make a nourishing cobra blood wine. Snake bile is also the same, but snake bile wine is more expensive, after all, a cobra has a guts, after all, they think that snake bile has the effect of clearing heat and improving immunity.