But the restaurant, alongside most of the city's other remaining snake soup shops, switched to using frozen snake meat from Southeast Asia after a 2003 outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory ...
HONG KONG — As Hong Kong prepares to welcome the Year of the Snake on Wednesday, Chau Ka-ling displays a moving serpent with practiced ease, holding it like a pet in her decades-old restaurant ...
Wednesday marks the first day of the Lunar New Year, and restaurants all over town will be celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Snake ... day at Saigon Oriental Restaurant at 1103 E.
Chau Ka-ling, the owner of Shia Wong Hip in Hong Kong, continues to serve traditional snake soup. The restaurant faces ...
Executive Chinese chef Aaron Tan of Man Fu Yuan restaurant at InterContinental Singapore points out that, unlike the dragon, the snake is not traditionally an auspicious symbol in Chinese culture.
A pet snake crawls out from the cabinet at the family-run snake soup restaurant in Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) ...