While we studied French, we met a woman from the Philippines studying with us who familiarized us with this rare, expensive coffee. According to Amusingplanet.com,
Kopi luwak, the world’s most expensive coffee, is made from a certain variety of wild red coffee beans but only after it has passed through the digestive track of the Asian Palm Civet. The berries which grow in Indonesia and Philippines are eaten by the civet, a weasel-like animal, who likes the berries for their flesh. But they can't digest the inner beans which come out as poop.
Update: For the Thailand version of this, 22 Words just posted about elephant dung coffee selling for $500/pound, about the same that civet-dung-coffee sold for a few years ago.
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