Coffee lover…

The brewing smell of a fresh good coffee always perks me up. I like it with fresh milk and brown sugar whereby my significant other likes it black. I still remember the hunts that I have with my sis in MEL to find good coffee beans to bring back to KL. We went from one shop to another, looking, feeling, smelling and tasting; we bought nearly 5kilo of coffee beans. Happy because that will last me nearly a year supply of coffee. Yes?

Apparently not, because I am also a shopping addict and fancies 1001 things so my luggage grown from two to five not including hand-carries. Enough said I have to leave half of the beans at the airport. *sobs*

Anyway, back to my coffee story.

I’m always on the lookout for a good coffee. Whenever we passed by any café which gives out free smell, it always manage to draw us in and try it. Some are disgustingly bad. Some are quite good. Some are expensive. We have not really found a combination of good and reasonable price coffee. Mind you, but for homegrown coffee (in Johor) but marketed in an upscale café cost about RM180 per half kilo is ridiculous….still can taste the bitterness…

The love I have for coffee, make me think of opening my own gourmet coffee shops. How cool is that? 

Imagine coffee shops with exotic beans on display, different blend, different level of roasting, with your own favorite nook just like at-home. Pair it with crusty puff pastries, fresh scones or cheesy cheesecakes. A perfect place for that coffee dates with loved one and hanging out place for family and friends. Wonderful!

One of the exotic beans that I wanted to try is the Kopi Luwak or Civet Coffee, origins from Indonesia. It is the most expensive because of the ermmmm... unusual way of producing it. The civet or musang in malay eat the coffee fruits and they left the undigested seeds in their droppings. The droppings were collected and processed to become coffee beverage. Sound disgusting, right? But those who have drink it raves about it and it was popular way back in the Colonial times. However, the Ulama’ is still discussing of its halal status…so till then…

For our daily dosage, we settled for The Viennese from The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, I buy the beans and grind it (they can grind it for you as well)…even the grinding process already excites me…our latest addition The Coffee Mio and after a bad day in the office, a steaming hot coffee while flipping through my favorite fashion magazine will take away the severity…

So, my quest as a coffee lover will never stop…