Jervois Street

Jervois Street is famous for its snake-dealers' shops. Every year when the cold weather sets in the Jervois Street dealers offer for sale huge numbers of snakes of all sizes and species, which form a favorite Chinese food supply during the winter. The snakes are used to make a soup which the Chinese maintain, warms the body from within and prevents the winter cold from entering their limbs.

No fewer than 50,000 cobras alone are made into soup in Hong Kong every year. Since snake meat has no taste, chicken stock is added to give the soup its flavor.