Kopi Luwak

Average coffee comes from arabica coffee beans, picked straight from the bush, dried, then roasted and ground for consumer use. The same can be said for Kopi Luwak coffee, but harvesting the beans is quite different.

The luwak (also known as the Asian civet), a small unassuming mammal that resembles a lemur, has a taste for the beans but can't digest them. The luwak eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a luwak's intestines the beans are then defecated, keeping their shape. After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness, widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world.

Kopi luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and also in the Philippines and also in East Timor. The Luwak coffee is known as the most expensive coffee in the world because of the way the beans are processed and the limited supply.

This famous coffee has reached fame through overseas,thanks to this adorable mammal:

Have you tried this coffee before? Is it worth paying top dollar?

We invite you to find the answer by yourself at KC Resort & Over Water Villas, the one and only restaurant in Koh Samui that offers the wide-reaching luscious coffee. Taste it with our incomparable cigars, delicious flavored shishas or with our prominent 44$ pie.

We are sure it would be more convincing than any word...