Are there any coffee beans in the Middle East? The origin of Yemeni coffee introduces how to drink Yemeni coffee?

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Legend has it that a 9th century Ethiopian shepherd became unusually energetic after eating something that looked like red cherries and discovered coffee. He brought fruit to a holy man, and he made the world's first cup of coffee. The rest is history.

From Ethiopia onwards into the Middle East, coffee's popularity among travelers and merchants spread throughout Asia and Europe. Coffee is now grown in areas with the right combination of height, soil and weather. Here are some of the best coffees in the world:

Yemeni mocha

Mocha coffee was one of the first coffees grown, named after the Yemeni port of Mormon, from where it was exported to all parts of the world. It is traditionally grown in the mountains near the Red Sea.

Yemen is actually located on the Arabian Peninsula of the Asian continent, but it is very close to Africa as long as it crosses the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. However, other Arab countries do not produce coffee, so the world classifies Yemeni coffee as a member of the North African coffee family. What is Yemeni mocha? Mocha is the export port of Yemeni coffee, because it is difficult to name all the smallest sub-producing areas in the history of coffee trade. Even if the coffee produced in these insignificant sub-producing areas is really excellent, the sun-dried beans nearby including East Africa are exported from Mocha Port to all parts of the world in the early stage. Now Mocha Port has long been silted up and disappeared. Many Isobian sun-dried beans are also named Mocha by themselves, such as the well-known Hara Mocha. I think it's because the flavor has a little bit in common with Yemeni coffee.

Yemen is probably the first country in the world to use coffee as a cash crop. It is said that coffee was introduced by Ethiopian pilgrims in the 6th century. Yemen's coffee culture is different from other regions. Exporters do not buy directly from farms, but from large plate dealers in the middle. The coffee received by local large plate dealers is all in pods and whole dried coffee cherries are usually stored in cellars. Yemeni coffee farmers have not suffered from trading patterns through large-scale distributors, mainly because limited local coffee cultivation land, high latitude and limited water resources make production scarce, and demand for Yemeni coffee is very high, keeping Yemeni coffee prices high.

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