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A very special moment was when I tried my first ever Salath fruit. I'm hooked. Easy to peel, with a taste resembling apple mixed in with honey, and a texture that resembles fennel. Could be very interesting added in a salad with a touch of olive oil, or put in a crudite dip together with carrots and celery. Yeah, just like you do with fennel. Apparently their sweetness depends on whether they grow higher or lower on their tree. Will try to get an image of them in the wild soon. By the way, Salath means Snake's Skin in the local dialect.

And now to the special coffee Indonesia is famous for. The Kopi Luwak. From Wikipedia: Kopi luwak (Indonesian pronunciation: [ˈkopi ˈlu.aʔ]), or civet coffee refers to the beans of coffee berries once they have been eaten and excreted by the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other civets.^[1] The name is also used for marketing brewed coffee made from those beans.

Wikipedia goes on to say that many industry experts say that it tastes bad. Well, it surely didn't taste bad yesterday, actually it was very very, very good and spurred on a great conversation with the other two people I tried it with. 

 A big thanks to Daryn for the gift.