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| Coffee and tea tasting |
Although java is the synonym for good coffee - and I had a taste to confirm this while I was recently traveling on the island of Java - Bali's coffee comes a close second. After all, it is the neighboring island and the tastes are similar.
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| Luwak coffee beans |
I went to a coffee plantation for a tasting of their excellent local coffees and teas. In addition to the usual suspects, I was also introduced to Luwak coffee, the very expensive coffee that comes from coffee beans that passed through the digestive system of the civet cat, an animal native to these regions. I didn't try the coffee (although at about 5 EUR per cup it's a luxury I could have afforded) but I did buy a packet to take home instead.
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| Civet |
A reference to Luwak coffee is in the movie The Bucket List where Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman discuss it. Here is a YouTube video with the scene:
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