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Where is the best civet coffee? Wu Xiwen, head teacher of Landai Coffee and Tea blending, believes that according to his own experience, Cambodian civet coffee is the best, but traders import from Cambodia and roast in Taiwan tastes better than the country of origin.

Wu Xiwen said that the civet coffee beans sold to tourists in Bali, Cambodia, are worth US $100g, or about NT $2600 per pound, but Taiwan traders import raw civet coffee beans from Cambodia at NT $6000 to NT $8000 per kilogram. After these raw coffee beans are roasted in Taiwan, they are purchased by appointment for only NT $4000 to NT $5000 per pound.

He explained that the raw beans imported by traders in large quantities are calculated by jin, but consumers' purchases of baked products are weighed per pound, the same as those made in Cambodia, and the products sold to tourists in Bali are more than twice as expensive as those imported by traders to be baked in Taiwan.

Where did the civet coffee beans come from? He said that there are many theories, but most of the more common ones are that Cambodian workers inadvertently discovered that it was only because they picked up coffee beans from civet droppings, washed them and roasted them over fire for a while, ground them and brewed them in water, or boiled them to enjoy the good taste of coffee. After the news spread, businessmen vigorously promoted it.

He points out that civets will only choose mature and red coffee beans and will not eat green or undercooked coffee beans, but after all, the coffee beans are too hard to digest, and will still discharge the indigestible coffee beans. But after passing through the civets' stomach and intestines, the coffee beans have a subtle change and will have a special flavor.

Civet coffee beans are rare, but now in addition to wild civets, there are also captive civets. Captive civets only feed coffee fruits, changing the omnivorous habits of wild civets, and even university laboratories have developed artificial civets coffee beans.

There are many origins of civet coffee beans, he said bluntly, including Indonesia, which first found civet coffee beans, as well as Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan. Although they were bought by local sightseeing in Cambodia, the roasted civet coffee beans have a special bitter taste, scorched taste and a special bad smell, but the civet coffee beans bought by traders from Cambodia are roasted in Taiwan and brewed coffee. The bitter taste is more peaceful.

According to his analysis, although civet coffee is precious and high-grade coffee, it also has grades. The price certified by the Cambodian state is higher, and Cambodian civet coffee beans are indeed better than those from other producing areas. However, whether civet coffee is really better than ordinary coffee may also be evaluated differently because of personal preferences.

In addition to civet coffee beans, he says that elephant coffee beans are rarer and more expensive, costing NT $30,000 per pound. From another point of view, civet coffee is a story, a process, good or bad, judged by the drinkers themselves.

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