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Tasting The Animal Coffee

Warning: you may feel nausea after reading this post. Mr Lim was very interested to try the kopi luwak or the animal coffee which was available in Seribatu village. He was sitting with his wife (Fang), his sister, and his brother in law (Chiat Hau) on a bench in a plantation while trying different coffees available in Bali. I thought he became interested after I explained how the coffee was made. If you want to know, I will tell you briefly. The animal; the civet, or locally known called Luwak or Lubak, eat the coffee. But the coffee beans eaten is not broken or harm at all when they go the Luwak esophagus. It is said that the coffee remains in the stomach for 12 hours and mixed with enzymes from the Luwak body. Then, here is the most dramatic moment: the Luwak go to toilet! The coffee farmers collect the droppings of the luwak with joy filled their heart knowing that they will be able to produce one of the tastiest coffee in the globe. The dropp

Being Your Own Chef in Bali

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Wondering how to cook those delicioius spicy food you had in Bali? No, problem. There are many cooking lesson you can attend in Bali. So, next time you come to Bali again, you can plan one day for cooking lesson. Not just cooking, you will be taken to the local market in the morning before the lesson begins. You can take a stroll around the vegatables and fish to look for the ingredient for cooking. Your chef will accompany you, and explain to you what kind of spices are for sale in Bali market. While I am not really good at cooking, (I fry eggs, if you insist to know) I enjoy our local food, except the lawar barak . By the way, here is an adventure of my client, Mr. Ching while doing his cooking in Bali. You can follow him, and who knows you might be interested as well. Our guide from the other day, Putu, arranged for my mom, dad and me to take a cooking class this morning in Kuta. We took a van from the hotel into Kuta and were dropped off at the local marketplace. Our instructor for