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Many of these recipes use meat such as chicken, pork and even snake. Snake soup is called se gang (蛇羹) in Cantonese. This rich, thick broth has its origins in China’s Guangdong province.

which is understandable because chicken meat is added by some restaurants as filler. The soup base is usually made from boiling snake, chicken and pork bones, with some cornflour slurry to thicken.