Panda tea

First, we have the world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, made with civet's feces. And now, the world's most expensive tea is made with panda poo! This luxury brew is created by a Chinese entrepreneur An Yanshi who was a calligraphy teacher at Sichuan University. He had bought 11 tons of excrement from a panda breeding centre in Sichuan, China. He then used them to grow tea leaves which are selling at £50,000 (SGD99,000) per kilogram. Bamboo, similar to green tea, contains a cancer preventative. Yanshi claimed that since pandas have a very poor digestive system and only absorb about 30 per cent of what they eat, the rest would be used to fertilize the tea which will provide cancer-preventative effects. While Yanshi hopes to make money from the tea, he claimed that his main mission is to protect the environment and replace chemical fertilizers with animal faeces. According to Yanshi, panda poo is rich in nutrients and should be much better than chemical fertilizers. So far, there have been no takers for this unusual brew. STOMPer IUIU who came across the story online wrote: "This sounds like bullshit to me. "Why not just use the bamboo directly instead? "I doubt anyone would pay such a hefty sum to drink poo."