Coffee beans made of elephant poop, which were offered for the first time in Thailand in late 2012, have recently been introduced at a coffee festival in central Vietnam and fetch about US$1,504 per kilogram. Nguyen Van Hoa, director of Cao Nguyen Viet Coffee Co. Ltd. in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, revealed that the beans were made from elephant dung, which involved a complicated process.
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