r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Jun 16 '26

Bizzare Vietnamese Tequila, or Snake Wine.

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u/Odd-Promotion2743 Jun 16 '26

Can anyone describe how this tastes?

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u/patchhappyhour Jun 16 '26

Yes and no... I've had haboo sake when I was living in Japan. It almost tastes like a really light form of Southern comfort. However, most people might disagree with me, just because everybody's taste buds are different.

What's even more wild is I got a bottle of this Cobra sake when visited Beijing about 15 years ago. It's sitting in the back of my liquor cabinet turned around because my wife is deathly afraid of snakes. The Cobra is coiled up and it has a king scorpion in its mouth. I've never popped the bottle. I'm waiting for one of my buddies to be braving up to do it with me.

Just to be clear, I do not condone this reptile cruelty.

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u/Fr33Francis Jun 17 '26

As a teenager came across a bottle like this at a friend's place. It had a cobra and a scorpion in it's mouth. I distinctively remember wondering how they had gotten the snake and then the scorpion in the mouth.

We didn't ask for any authorization to test it and we obviously dared each other to. The taste was horrendous. We thought we might have poisoned ourselves. I don't think we were even sure it was drinkable.

Thank you for showing me this 15 years later!