Korean 'Mandu' + 'Kopi Luwak' Coffee

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(1) Julie Alvin, Where the Arty Flock (Hint: It's Not Gamgnam); Seoul, South Korea. New York Times, Sept 1, 2013 (in the weekly Travel section).
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow ... 0901-SURFACING.html

My comment:
(a) Gangnam District江南區
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_District
(literally means "South of the (Han) River")

section 4 Attractions: Several popular shopping and entertainment areas are located in Gangnam District, including Apgujeong, the COEX Mall and the area around Gangnam Station and Garosugil; Cheongdam-dong is notable as an upmarket shopping area; has a large concentration of vegetarian and other upscale restaurants that serve Korean cuisine with a modern twist, namely on the main street from Bongeun Temple to Park Hyatt Hotel in Samseong-dong.
(i) Apgujeong-dong  狎鷗亭洞 (hanja; a ward named after a pavilion with the same name 狎鷗亭, built by 韓 明會 (1415-1487))
(ii) Cheongdam-dong  淸潭洞
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheongdam-dong
(a ward; originally named Chungsutgol for a clean pond that existed here during the Joseon Dynasty 朝鮮 王朝 (1392-1897))
(iii) Bongeunsa  奉恩寺
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongeunsa
(founded in 794)
(iv) Samseong-dong  三成洞
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samseong-dong
(v) dong (administrative division)  洞
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_(administrative_division)

(b) There is no need to read the report, except the following paragraph (with a photo of its own):

"Buchon Son Mandu [in print; online: BUKCHON SON MANDU]

Hapjeong’s main cultural artery is known as Cafe Street, thanks to its abundance of stylish coffee shops and international restaurants. This place peddles Korean mandu dumplings typically stuffed with minced meat, tofu, garlic and ginger. The owners collaborated with “The Jack,” a pop artist, to create a space lined with toys and original artwork.

414-16 Hapjeong-dong, Mapo-gu; (82-2) 335-4414; [Web page:] mandoo.so"

(i) Hapjeong-dong  合井洞
(ii) Mapo District  麻浦區
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapo-District
(The name "Mapo" comes from the name of an old ferry across the Han River, and can roughly be translated as "hemp 麻 ferry")

But see Busan  釜山廣域市
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busan
(section 2 Name: The city was originally called Busanpo[, where] po 浦 means a harbor)
(iii) mandu  饅頭
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandu_(dumpling)
(Chinese mantou is also considered a cognate, which used to mean meat-filled dumplings, but now refers to steamed buns without any filling [citations omitted])
(iv) My GUESS is that Buchon Son is the name of the mandu store.

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(2) Kopi Luwak | Brown-Gold Blend; A way to test the genuineness of the world’s costliest coffee. Economist, Aug 31, 2013
http://www.economist.com/news/sc ... ee-brown-gold-blend
("the most expensive coffee in the world")

Note:
(a) Kopi Luwak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
(section 1 History)

Quote: "Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee. Luwak is a local name of the Asian Palm Civet in Sumatra. Palm civets are primarily frugivorous, feeding on berries and pulpy fruits such as figs and palms. Civets also eat small vertebrates, insects, ripe fruits and seeds.

(b) "Eiichiro Fukusaki of Osaka University, in Japan, plans to change that. As he describes in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, he and his colleagues in Japan and Indonesia have developed a chemical test which, they believe, can reliably detect essence of civet in coffee."
(i) Eiichiro FUKUSAKI  福崎 英一郎
(ii) Press release: First scientific method to authenticate world’s costliest coffee. American Chemical Society (ACS), Aug 21, 2013.
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/ ... stliest-coffee.html

cites

Jumhawan U et al, Selection of Discriminant Markers for Authentication of Asian Palm Civet Coffee (Kopi Luwak): A Metabolomics Approach. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 61: 7994–8001 (2013; online publication: July 27, 2013)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf401819s

A graduate student in Prof Fukusaki's lab, Mr Udi Jumhawan is Indonesian.
https://sites.google.com/site/fu ... udents/jumhawan-udi