Many people turn pale at the smell of snakes, but in Guangdong, snake meat is a rare delicacy. Although the snake is a natural cold-blooded killer standing at the top of the food chain, which makes people feel frightened, in Guangdong's eyes, the snake meat is tender, but the ingredients are good ~ Guangdong people pay attention to health preservation, so the snake meat with high protein and low cholesterol has become a mouth-watering food in Guangdong. As the saying goes, "autumn wind makes three snakes fat." In fact, Cantonese people love to eat snakes for thousands of years. There are also related records in Compendium of Materia Medica, and various nourishing effects of snake meat are also mentioned. Nowadays, restaurants in many places in Guangdong have introduced special snake flavors, such as salted snake, cold snake skin, and stewed snake gall with Fritillaria. , attracted a large number of "snake eaters" to explore the taste.

Guangdong is in the rainy and humid southern region. In ancient times, boils were rampant, and infectious diseases such as malignant malaria were prevalent in hot and humid areas of ancient South China. The industrious and brave ancestors of Guangdong gradually realized one of the manifestations of the conquest of nature. Then it evolved into a food culture and a custom. It often reflects people's production level and even ideology. Brave people often dare to break with traditional habits and expand the scope of food. And from trying all kinds of delicious food, we can often get some novel and interesting knowledge. Cantonese people eat a wide range of things, such as snakes, frogs, cats and monkeys. In fact, eating snakes and cats is nothing special in Guangdong. Snake meat and cat meat are cooked together. The name on the menu is "Long Hudou", and many people know it.

It is suggested that snake meat has high nutritional value and contains more than 20 kinds of essential amino acids, including linoleic acid, linolenic acid and glutamic acid. At the same time, the content of protein is very high, much higher than other meat foods. It is a little different from other meat foods, such as low cholesterol content and a lot of mineral elements, such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and so on! ! !