Kopi Luwak, The Most Expensive Coffee In the World

Earlier this month I visited Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, where I lived for 7 years before migrated to Singapore 10 years ago. There are lots of changes happening in Jakarta especially the food choices. There are now much more variety of food and beverages that people can enjoy in malls, side streets, restaurants, and many more.

I happened to be in EX Plaza Indonesia for watching cinema and while waiting for the cinema to start in about 1 hour, I decided to try The Kopi Luwak, a cafe that specialised in service coffee Luwak. Non-Indonesian who used to drink coffee might wonder what kind of coffee it is.

Coffee Luwak literally means civet coffee. Well, allow me to explain a little bit. Luwak is a civet cat that many of them are living in Java and Sumatra, and Sulawesi, Indonesia.  The civet cats only eat the finest and ripest coffee cherries. The beans which are unable to be digested by the civet cats will go through unique fermentation processed within the intestines and come out from the cat's digestive system. The farmers collects them from the jungle and clean them up. The result is the best and the rarest coffee beans in the world which translates into the most expensive coffee in the world.

When the ordered coffee is served, it's served in a very nice tea/coffee set as seen in the picture above. The coffee powder is stored in a small sachet inserted into a nice wrapping. The waitress will open it for you and let you smell the coffee powder. After that they'll pour it into the cup together with hot water. They'll ask you to keep the cup closed for about 5-10 minutes to allow the coffee powder mixed with the hot water. Once it is ready, you may start enjoy the coffee.