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The most expensive Kopi Luwak in the world has arrived at Shanghai Port! East Timor Coffee Brand and Taste

Published: 2026-04-02 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/02, When it comes to East Timor, many people may not be familiar with it, but the wild civet coffee beans in East Timor are very famous. it is called one of the most expensive coffee in the world, and in the early morning of March 9, 2021, for the first time, Shanghai Port ushered in a whole cabinet of East Timorese coffee beans imported in bulk, including 550 kilograms of wild civet shit coffee beans. East Timor is an underdeveloped country, the most

When it comes to East Timor, many people may not be familiar with it, but the wild civet coffee beans in East Timor are very famous. it is called one of the most expensive coffee in the world, and in the early morning of March 9, 2021, for the first time, Shanghai Port ushered in a whole cabinet of East Timorese coffee beans imported in bulk, including 550 kilograms of wild civet shit coffee beans.

East Timor is an underdeveloped country. Coffee is the main cash crop. Coffee has also become the country's main export, accounting for 90% of the country's total export trade.

According to Fengxian in Shanghai, "the price of wild civet poop coffee beans is 50,000 yuan per kilogram, and according to a preliminary estimate, the price per cup of coffee is thousands of yuan." Zhang Zheng, head of the company responsible for storing the coffee beans, said, "the price is high because production is extremely scarce." Only 800 kilograms of wild musk cat poop coffee beans in East Timor are collected by humanitarian means each year. In the past, all these coffee beans were sold to the Middle East and Japan, and Chinese consumers did not have the opportunity to taste them directly. "

The high price of wild musk cat poop coffee beans in East Timor is also due to the fact that the coffee brewed is very thick, has no bitter taste, and can taste fruit and a touch of mint.

In addition to the taste of coffee, organic coffee beans have also become the biggest selling point of coffee in East Timor. East Timor's green coffee beans are all organic cultivation, no pesticides and fertilizers, pure natural growth, East Timor has also become the world's largest producer of organic coffee.

Generally speaking, when the coffee fruit is all red, the local farmers will pick the all-red coffee fruit by hand or by machine, and then process it in later order, but the wild civet poop coffee beans in East Timor are very different.

East Timorese wild civets eat the all-red coffee fruit on the coffee tree as an after-dinner fruit. after these fruits pass through the civets' digestive system, the flesh of the coffee fruit is digested, but the coffee beans in the coffee fruit are excreted because they cannot be digested. It is this unique digestion process that creates the unique flavor of East Timor Musk Kopi Luwak.

Although the quality of East Timor Wild Musk Kopi Luwak is so high, it is not easy to enter the Chinese coffee market. In theory, East Timor has the world's top organic wild coffee beans and the world's only remaining wild musk Kopi Luwak for humanitarian collection, so coffee sales should not be worried about the way out.

At first, East Timorese coffee appeared in the domestic high-end niche market in the form of small bulk, and the second Expo took a turn for the better.

The Expo is not only a trading platform for goods and services, but also a platform for the exchange and blending of cultures and ideas. Through the matchmaking of Waigaoqiao Group Co., Ltd. and the setting up of stalls on the spot for visitors to taste, East Timor coffee has attracted attention. Within two months after the closing of the second Expo, the East Timor Pavilion landed and China officially became a member of the national (regional) center of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.

Before the third Expo, the East Timor National Pavilion Coffee Industry Center officially settled in Dinghan International Coffee Culture Exchange Center and became an authorized distributor of wild musk Kopi Luwak in East Timor in China, contributing to the practice of "Belt and Road Initiative".

After the third Expo, the maximum contract value of East Timor coffee beans and musk cat shit coffee has reached 3.5 million US dollars. From piecemeal purchases to today's large-scale trade exports, the sales channels of East Timorese coffee in China are also getting wider and wider.

In addition, about 20 tons of boutique coffee beans have been shipped from Dili, the capital of East Timor. According to a report released by Shanghai Pudong, two batches of containers of nearly 40 tons will be ushered in in Shanghai port one after another. Orders for coffee beans through the platform of the East Timor Pavilion are expected to reach US $5 million this year.

Li Ziqiang, director of the East Timor National Pavilion, said, "the remarkable transformation of the results of the Expo has led to the 'running' of the coffee trade in East Timor."

Li Ziqiang also said that he planned to develop cashew trade with China this year. The annual output of cashew nuts in East Timor could reach 35-450000 tons, while the quantity exported to China was almost zero. The Chinese market is in great demand, and once a stable trade is formed with China, the market trade volume may reach more than 10 billion.

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