That day I was telling Warlock about one type of coffee that I heard from watching drama. Seeing Arc is at Indonesia now, I wonder he heard about this coffee or not. Behold! The Kopi Luwak.
Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and the undigested beans are excreted. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid), in the country of Vietnam, and the coffee estates of south India. Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called Weasel Coffee which also comes from the droppings of coffee beans after weasels eat robusta coffee cherries.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling at $75 USD per quarter pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and United States, but it is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are limited.
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Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and luwak is the local name of the Palm Civet. The raw, red coffee berries are part of its normal diet, along with insects, small mammals, and other fruit. The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but it is believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are excreted still covered in some inner layers of the cherry, and locals then gather them and sell them to dealers. The beans are washed, and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavors which develop through the whole process. While praised by many for its rich flavor, the beverage is often derided as "cat poop coffee" or "monkey poo coffee".
(Info from wikipedia).
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At 11:32 PM,
Arc, your mission if you choose to accept it is to find random cats in Indonesia and squeeze the crap out of it. Then you shall sift through it to find half digested coffee beans and send it back to Malaysia. This message will self destruct in 5 secs. Good luck.
At 9:38 AM,
No wonder Arc doesn't play DotA so well anymore, he's been doping up on Civet Coffee in Indon.
Sigh the crap rich people consume.....