Last year, a friend inquired where to buy "alamid" coffee. I didn't quite answered her right since I wasn't so sure myself. But thanks to Lee of IlonggoLivingInCanada , I may now give a much better answer even though it's already late. Well, as they say "Better late than ... later" - lol. So what is coffee "alamid"? It's one of the most expensive coffees in the world to start with, fetching around US$600 a pound. Yet it is not the actual coffee beans that make it costly but the "alamids". Then the next question is of course, what, who where, are these "alamids"? They are what locals refer to civets, wild mountain cats found in some parts of the country. These cats are omnivores, feeding on insects, small animals, fishes, wild plants and fruits including coffee beans. These civets cannot digest the beans so naturally they have to come out of their system after it has mixed with the digestive juices and ferments inside th...