Some colleagues at work and I ate at this restaurant called Riverwalk Grill located at Davao Crocodile Park. Their specialty? Crocodile dishes. Because we want to try something out of the ordinary, we tried one of the crocodile dishes. Crocodile Steak.
At first I thought it would taste like chicken, but it tasted like pork, less the fat and the cholesterol. What I liked about this dish is the gravy. It's so heavenly I could chug it all down. This dish is a bit expensive though at P460 per order.
Then on another restaurant, Dencio's Hilltop Restaurant, we had some coffee. The waiter was doing some sales talk about this special coffee called Civet coffee (also known as Kopi Luwak in Indonesia). I have heard about it before from another colleague at work who likes coffee that much that she probably knows all kinds. I can't even tell the difference between a latte and a cappuccino. For me, they all taste the same. LOL. I can only distinguish black coffee from a 3-in-1 coffee. So anyways, we ordered the Civet coffee. I really want to try it too because of how special it is. Special because it came from cat's poop! I know it sounds disgusting but here how it is made.
The Civet cat has the ability to select high-quality coffee cherries. Their stomachs only digest the soft outer part of the coffee cherry. The beans ferment while inside the stomach removing all the bitter flavor then eventually gets excreted as poop.
Civet coffee is said to be the most expensive coffee in the world with a price of $100 or more per pound. So at Php 160 per cup, this is how it looks like. I already added some fresh milk into it is not that black anymore.
It does not taste that bad at all. Just don't think it came from poop so you would still be able to finish the whole cup.
