Forget your regular morning blend or a cup of posh Earl Grey tea. The newest craze hitting the tea world is panda poo tea.
Recently, we heard the news that the world’s most expensive coffee is actually made from cat s**t and a single cup could see you shelling out around €80 a cup. Kopi Luwak coffee is produced on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where its beans are extracted from a cat-like native palm civet animal who eats coffee beans and then poops out the seeds.
However, not content with cat s**t coffee, a Chinese entrepreneur has gone and collected 11 tonnes of panda poo from a local breading centre, which he intends to use to fertilise a tea crop in the mountains of Sichuan province.
An Yanshi (the entrepreneur), is a former calligraphy teacher at the Sichuan University, but he quit his job so he “throw his life and soul” into his new project.
He believes the panda poo crop will be the most expensive in the world selling at €53,000 a kilo, which roughly works out to be around €100 a cup.
According to Orange News, Chinese tea drinkers regard the first batch of tea, which is harvested in the early spring, as the best. Any successive batches are regarded as inferior and will sell for less.
So, would we drink it? Not for all the tea in China.
