Balls, soup, stir-fry, wine: See how Hong Kong celebrates snake

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🐍 Slithering and celebrating: 2025 is the Year of the Snake, and there are so many ways to mark the Lunar New Year. In Hong Kong, people are sssslurping up soup and drinking wine at family-run restaurants where the reptile is the star of the menu.

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