Comments on: An evening for connoisseurs

By: It’s good to the last drop(ping) | Live In The Philippines

It’s good to the last drop(ping) | Live In The Philippines — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:16:25 +0000

[...] you guys remember a few months ago, I wrote about my experience drinking civet coffee? What is that, you ask? Well, it is coffee that is made from the droppings of a cat like animal [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:34:07 +0000

Hi Cheryll Ann – ha ha. I guess there are benefits to drinking tea too!nice to hear from you Cheryll Ann.

By: Cheryll Ann

Cheryll Ann — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:47:57 +0000

Thank heavens, I am a tea drinker. LOL!

Anyway I did see some civet coffee being sold in Manila, a small container was like 500 or 800 pesos, so it’s pretty reasonable.

I guess those were the excreted beans, hehehe.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:46:59 +0000

Hi Luz B – very interesting about your coffee plantation. So, the civet were already active at that time!

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:46:07 +0000

Hi Randy C – like you, I probably wouldn’t have tried it if I hadn’t been offered it free. And, now that I’ve had it, just being able to say that I’ve had that is enough, I probably will never order it again!

By: Luz B

Luz B — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:03:14 +0000

Oh Bob! If only Civet coffee already sold before as a special coffe we could able to earn a little bit more money. We kept collecting that before. You know in 1970s and 1980s we had a coffee plantation (Arabeca) in Balutakay Bansalan Davao del Sur. It is very nice montainous place with a very cold temperature located not far from Mt Apo. We spent our school vacation there helping my father cleaning the land and harvesting the coffee. There were times we were expected a lot of red coffee to be harvested but when we arrived there we thought somebody was harvesting partially already. For the first time that my father told us to go around to find and collect the civet coffee andt after he explained that it’s already a bowels of the “Milu” (a civet name given by the people in Balutakay) which he described it like a rat, oh man!Just a thought alone “bowels” was not a pleasure for me to collect them. We found heaps of coffee around its either on top of the tree trunk, on top of the big stone or just scattered on the ground. There were heaps which very clean to look at but there were heaps hmmmn . . . sorry maybe i have only a very sensitive stomach. Imagine I was very much aware that the civet coffee never be mixed to the coffe for our own consumption hahaha. Now, some people are willing or proud to pay a lot of money just for a few gram or just for a cup of civet coffe. The “Milu” or civet animals fascinated me at that time and made me curious how they really look likes but I never see them despite of so many kilos civet coffee collected.

By: Randy C

Randy C — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:46:30 +0000

Hi Bob – too funny, as I just watched “The Bucket List” last night.

I’m not in a big hurry to try this. I suppose if someone bought me a cup, I’d give it a try but I don’t think I’m going out of my way to track it down. Not that I’m concerned that it comes from waste so much, I just tend to stay away from consumable things that are highly priced because of their rarity. I’ve never had the income to play in that field, or the mindset to accept it. Not that this is that expensive.

By: Of civets and kangaroos | Davao Delicious

Of civets and kangaroos | Davao Delicious — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:01:03 +0000

[...] of pasta, an appetizer, and lots of desserts — all of which they make themselves. My friend Bob Martin liked the Baked Penne, which was good but a tad sweet for my taste. What I preferred was the Smoked [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:09:13 +0000

Hi Martin – Thanks for sharing that, Martin. Good to know.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:26:24 +0000

Hi Bob and Chas,

There is a Taiwanese investor who has set up a tea plantation in the foothills of the mountains around Gingoog City in northern Mindanao. It’s a new plantation and I’m not sure if it is producing yet. He is growing tea of the Oolong variety.