There's a street in Hong Kong where you go to eat.
All the shops are very similar.
The Chinese bloke from work took us to this shop which had its walls lined with storage drawers 10 deep on two sides of the room (third side was entrance and fourth side was kitchen).
We sat down at a small table close to the drawers on our side of the room (it was quite a narrow room).
The little Chinese waitress came and gave us a menu (in Chinese) , and our work mate asked, "poison or no poison ?"
The other Aussie with us said, "Poison."
Then after some discussion between the waitress and our Chinese workmate, she went to a drawer right behind us, opened it, and with a pair of snake tongs, pulled out cobra.
She waved it at our work mate, who nodded, and then she grabbed it by the neck with her free hand, dropped the tongs, drew a knife from her belt and slit the snake's throat into a little tin bowl on the table I hadn't noticed before.
After the snake had bled a reasonable amount int the bowl, she placed it on a small hotplate, and took the snake away. She was young - the more experienced waitress at the next table skinned her snake at the table ! Slit it down the middle, then grasped the head with the skin in one hand, and the spine and body in the other hand, and then just peeled the skin off the body like a farmer taking the skin off a rabbit.
Later while our Chinese workmate was trying to get us to taste the warm snake blood (mixed with a little brandy), the waitress brought out the rest of the snake chopped into little bits, deep fried and served on a bed of white rice.
I couldn't take the blood, but did taste the fried snake, and it tasted a bit like chicken !
I had two nibbles of fried snake, then stopped off at Maccas on the way home !
Once I knew what was in the drawers that surrounded me in the restaurant, I kept hearing rustlings and movements all around me all the time we were in there.
Apparently I did OK for a Gwailow for at least tasting it, but would have scored real cred points if I had tried the blood. The other Aussie with us who also had never been there, left to puke after the waitress had bled the snake ! No cred points there !
Unpleasant, but interesting experience.