epa06752427 People look at the Asia Snake Restaurant at in Huaxi
Street Night Market in Taipei, Taiwan, 20 May 2018. Asia Snake
Restaurant, the last of eight snake restaurants at the market,
will close on 21 May due to short supply of snakes which are a
protected species in Taiwan. In the 1980s, Asia Snake Restaurant
killed hundreds of snakes daily. It served snake soup, snake
wine, snake blood and snake testicles to mostly male customers
who believed snake-derived products could enhance their manhood.
This restaurant was also blasted by international animal rights
groups for using a cigarette-smoking orangutan to lure customers
and putting on daily show of skinning live snakes to get the
blood and feeding mice to a cobra until it stopped doing so a
dozen years ago. EPA/DAVID CHANG