While travelling in Indonesia I was lucky enough to be able to sample the world's rarest coffee!! Here's my report on it.
So where does the world's rarest coffee come from? Well as a traveller you quickly learn that everywhere advertises and promotes themselves as "the world's best", "the world's highest", "the world's cheapest" etc. so to be honest I normally take no notice of such things. Singapore is a city renowned for exaggerating stuff and quite frankly on my few trips there it has made me cringe the amount of things they claim to be the world's best or the world's first.
I was in Munduk in Bali and touring near rice fields only to find a coffee plantation nearby. While checking out the coffee plantation we were introduced to a somewhat odd looking creature known as the Luwak Fox!! It is this creature that eats red coffee beans, is a mix between a cat, wolf, fox and dog and it helps produce the Luwak Coffee!
The strangest and most flabbergasting fact of this is that the Luwak Fox eats these coffee beans and they come back out in its excretion (yes, it's poo poo!) so this apparently is how the world's rarest coffee is made - from the poo poo of the Luwak fox. Disgusting maybe but life is short and adventurous and I was very much up for trying this amazing Luwak Coffee!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe was called Kubu Kopi, but to be honest I'd imagine that in this part of Bali, the rare Luwak Coffee can be obtained. If you want to find it, I suggest you get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation in Munduk, and tell him the name of the cafe Kubu Kopi and mention the Luwak Coffee. It's not that easy to find if you've hired a car. It's hardly a tourist spot so the only other option for getting there would probably be to stay in Munduk itself, in which case you'd be guaranteed to find it and could probably walk it.
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
OK it's time for me to go and get a normal coffee now! Thanks for reading!
Where can you sample the world's most rare coffee? Head to Munduk in Bali, Indonesia, though it is also exported!
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much will it cost you? - Less than 10 US Dollars (mine was around 8USD)
What's it made from? - Coffee bean which has been excreted from the Luwak Fox
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
So where does the world's rarest coffee come from? Well as a traveller you quickly learn that everywhere advertises and promotes themselves as "the world's best", "the world's highest", "the world's cheapest" etc. so to be honest I normally take no notice of such things. Singapore is a city renowned for exaggerating stuff and quite frankly on my few trips there it has made me cringe the amount of things they claim to be the world's best or the world's first.
I was in Munduk in Bali and touring near rice fields only to find a coffee plantation nearby. While checking out the coffee plantation we were introduced to a somewhat odd looking creature known as the Luwak Fox!! It is this creature that eats red coffee beans, is a mix between a cat, wolf, fox and dog and it helps produce the Luwak Coffee!
The strangest and most flabbergasting fact of this is that the Luwak Fox eats these coffee beans and they come back out in its excretion (yes, it's poo poo!) so this apparently is how the world's rarest coffee is made - from the poo poo of the Luwak fox. Disgusting maybe but life is short and adventurous and I was very much up for trying this amazing Luwak Coffee!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe was called Kubu Kopi, but to be honest I'd imagine that in this part of Bali, the rare Luwak Coffee can be obtained. If you want to find it, I suggest you get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation in Munduk, and tell him the name of the cafe Kubu Kopi and mention the Luwak Coffee. It's not that easy to find if you've hired a car. It's hardly a tourist spot so the only other option for getting there would probably be to stay in Munduk itself, in which case you'd be guaranteed to find it and could probably walk it.
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
OK it's time for me to go and get a normal coffee now! Thanks for reading!
Where can you sample the world's most rare coffee? Head to Munduk in Bali, Indonesia, though it is also exported!
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much will it cost you? - Less than 10 US Dollars (mine was around 8USD)
What's it made from? - Coffee bean which has been excreted from the Luwak Fox
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
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