Snake
wine and Scorpion wine are asian beverages that can be found in some
Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Laos Cambodia, but
also in Korea, and Japan.
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To
prepare this incredible beverage a cobra snake or some scorpions are
put into a bottle fulfilled with transparent rice wine liquor and some
herbs are added before the drink is left to ferment for months. The
venomous cobra snake used to make Snake wine is preserved to have the
snake poison dissolved in the rice wine, but because snake venoms are
protein-based they are inactivated by the denaturing effects of ethanol,
and no more dangerous, but this makes a healthy liquor with many health
benefits.
Many
types of snake drinks can be found all across Asia, but the most famous
one and the only original one is the one found in Vietnam, Thailand,
and Laos, the famous Snake wine that you can only find online.
Southeast Asia’s cuisine has a drink made with a twist: an entire venomous snake.
The
consumption of snake wine was originally for medicinal purposes and
many still drink it for those reasons. The beliefs of snakes’ healing
abilities are derived from snake characteristics like agility, skin
shedding, and speed. The flexibility of snakes is believed to be a good
treatment for stiffness and arthritis. Their ability to shed their skin
translates into a regenerative quality for skin ailments, such as acne
or itching skin.
Another
healing property snakes are know for is their speed. Its speed
represents how quickly the healing occurs and moves fast throughout the
body. Some versions of this wine is made with the actual blood and bile
of the snake. Snake wine is so gross and hardcore at the same time.
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