Satisfactory proof of the true answer to those questions may continue to evade onlookers of a controversial video that depicted a dead rat being pulled out of a soup served at a Gastown eatery ...

Controversy arose when an Instagram video posted on December 27 depicted a customer allegedly discovering a rat in a soup that had been served at Crab Park Chowdery, located at 221 Abbott Street.

The soup usually contains slivers of mushroom ... but the meat of fat constrictors such as the rat snake is also used. Novice customers often say the meat tastes like chicken, which is ...

[6] The breeds of snake whose flesh is typically used in the best snake soup include the venomous Chinese cobra and banded krait, the radiated rat snake and the long-nosed pit viper – all of ...