🇭🇰Snake. The large wooden plank that writes 蛇王林 (pronounced "She Wong Lam") hanging in the middle of the old Sheung Wan snake shop, is already more than 120 years old. And the business itself is at least a decade older.
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"She Wong Lam" means "King of Snakes, Lam". The owners don't make money on the shop itself. Their main business has always been selling snake meat to other restaurants. There were a handful of snake shops in HK that kept live snakes on location before. Ever since the government changed some regulations about live snake shops not being allowed to sell snake soup, which are way more profitable and less labor intensive, She Wong Lam become probably the only shop that laymen can just walk in and see snakes in those antique wooden snake cabins now.
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They used to sell 120 bowls of snake soup every day just to cover the old employees' salary. After the regulation changes were implemented, She Wong Lam now can only sell snake products - snake wine, snake gall juice infused medicine and orange peel... as weird as it sounds like, they are supposed to be really good for health.
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The last picture was fresh snake gall bladder juice in rice wine. My friend wanted it because her vision got blurry after a surgery, and this juice is helpful to eyes, in traditional Chinese medicinal sense. Give it a try if you got a chance, and got the guts.
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The gall bladder is taken out LIVE 😦🐍 but you won't see a single drop of blood. This is how skillful the snake-workers are. An old employee, Mak told me that the snakes don't even feel pain when he takes their gall bladder out, coz he would know when the snakes do. After all, he has worked at the shop for 65 years. I had to believe I him~
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