Coffee update

Incidentally, whilst skipping through Takashimaya's food hall the other day, some friends and I actually found the concession selling Kopi Luwak (see 20 March entry, Civet Cat Coffee). And the ultra-costly packets are displayed alongside - yes! Real civet cat poops preserved in resin. (And thus faintly resembling peanut brittle.)

Why why why the poops?

Surely far too much information on an already eyebrow-raising delicacy?!

Anyway, that's my repressed, British viewpoint. My Indonesian friend seemed to think it was helpful proof of the stuff being genuine!

Civet cat. Pic courtesy Time.