Visitors can order a coffee and request a sit-down with a serpentine friend from one of the tanks. Taking off from the cat cafes already popular in the Cambodian capital, Chea Raty launched his business to revamp the skin-crawling reputation of lizards and snakes and convince haters that they are simply misunderstood. There's no entry fee, so visitors can order a coffee and request a sit-down with a serpentine friend from one of the tanks. To critics who say the animals should be left alone in the wild, Chea Raty says his human-bred creatures "cannot survive there." But women, Chea Raty says, are providing an unexpected boost.

Source: Bangkok Post September 06, 2018 06:45 UTC