From dung to coffee | Bangkok Post: lifestyle

News about a coffee shop in Kanchanaburi, where a cup of civet coffee is sold for 1,500-500 baht, recently stirred excitement among coffee connoisseurs. There, a kilogramme of coffee beans, from farmed civet cats, is priced as high as 100,000 baht.

Interestingly, it is five times more expensive than the famous organic civet coffee by Doi Chang, another homegrown coffee brand from Chiang Rai. Doi Chang's internationally certified and award-winning wild civet coffee is priced at 20,000 baht per kilogramme.

The reason why this Kanchanaburi's coffee comes with such an astronomical price tag is because "it's has been intricately processed during a long period of time", said the owner of Rai Khun Ying, the coffee plantation in the limelight.