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10 Snake in Rice Whiskey Bottle in Ban Xang Hai in Laos

If you watch the whiskey distilling process used by the villagers at Ban Xang Hai in Laos, you immediately question their sanitation standards. But when you look closely at the bottles of rice whiskey called Lao Lao, they often contain a dead centipede, cockroach, scorpion or snake. The dead wildlife is supposed to improve the taste and a man’s virility. I passed on the opportunity to take a sip.

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Snake in Rice Whiskey Bottle in Ban Xang Hai in Laos

Ban Xang Hai, Laos

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