Are you a coffee lover? Then you got to try “elephant dung” coffee, also known as black ivory, which will be sold by MGM Macau exclusively in China this month.
A cup of this delicacy will set you back 488 patacas (HK$502) which includes a few minutes of table-side theatre, with the coffee beans, vacuum sealed in individual pouches, being freshly ground by hand before being processed using a Vienna-style siphon with water heated by an open frame.
“Elephant dung” coffee costs US$1,500 a kilogram, and just 200 kilograms of elephant dung coffee are produced every year as it takes 33 kilograms of coffee berries to yield just 1 kilogram of the delicacy. This makes it the most expensive coffee in the world, easily exceeding kopi luwak. It’s supposed to have aromas of dark, nutty chocolate and tastes of cherry and tobacco.
Are you a fan of the coffee or keen on trying?
Source: SCMP
Photo: Bart Rousseau, Flickr
