Wholesaler/Importer of coffee from Laos, Vietnam and/or Cambodia?

[sharecropper]

I wonder if anyone knows of wholesalers or importers of coffee from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in Thailand - can be beans or ground, already packed/branded or not.

Thanks a lot.

[jobin]

Hmm. Who needs those imported coffees? Here in Chiang Mai Province (no import tax to pay) a very fine quality of Arabica coffee is grown, roasted and sold under various brands. In CM city i always buy from Hillkopf coffee house, a major supplier of 'morning goodness'. Half a kilo about 220 baht; ground as you want. Maybe they have an online shop or sell in your town.

[sharecropper]

Thanks. I have Thai coffee well covered, but not coffee from the other countries.

[Bredbury Blue]

DAO seemed to be the major brand in Laos when the wife picked these up at laos duty free recently. Maybe contact them

[sharecropper]

Thanks re Dao - they have a joint venture in Thailand, with limited distribution, but I'm told it can be bought in Villa market and will check next week.

Cambodian coffee from Mondulkiri is what I hope to find somewhere in Thailand, but I was interested to read this today, which suggests probably not....

http://www.voacambodia.com/content/demand-for-cambodian-coffee-outrunning-supply/2739471.html

[DogNo1]

Why don't you go for the coffee which is partially digested by a small wiesel-like animal (cafe cut chon?) It's said that the animals choose to eat only the best berries.

http://www.trung-nguyen-online.com/legendee.html

[sharecropper]

I've had it (bought in Saigon) and it was delicious, but very expensive as it was crapped out by free-roaming civets (as opposed to caged ones).

[Snackbar]

Good ground coffee widely available for B120.00 kg. Not the jet black tar cafe Borran but a bit of a local secret.

[keeniau96]

I would also recommend considering the arabica from Sumatra, just a short haul from here. Sumatra was one of the very top coffees according to the coffee traders at my company (Cargill), they put it up there with Kenya-AA and above the Hawaii and Jamaica beans. Note that these were very serious professionals, buying and selling railcar lots, and had been at it for many years. I got a good education from them, almost went into the biz and maybe should have done so.