I can tell you that they eat a LOT of snakes as well as other wildlife. There is a restaurant in Guangzhou that specializes in snakes, as well as one in Shanghai that specializes in rats and one in Beijing that specializes in dogs. It's not uncommon to find unusual things on menus there, especially in restaurants no frequented by foreigners. I've also seen dishes prepared from Flying Fox and Red Panda on menus there. Hell, while i was there, there were two men arrested and executed for selling human meat to restaurants from their father's funeral home. I've seen whole fried frogs (tiny ones), fried-live scorpions, cicadas, turtles and many other things that Westerners would consider oddities. However, you have to remember that this was a country that was literally starving to death from the early '50s through the early '80s. If you are starving, you will eat whatever is available. Lot's of "delicacies" started out this way. Can you imagine how hungry the first guy that ate a raw oyster had to be?

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