Most of us can guess the largest coffee producing country in the world. It is also the largest coffee exporting country. Do you know which country is the second largest producer of coffee (also the second largest exporter of coffee)?

Recently Madhumita and Kushal visited us from Dallas. And somehow the discussion went towards this question. And we were all stunned to find the answer – Vietnam!! Did you know it? Anytime I think of Vietnam, I think of rice and paddy fields. I had no clue.

True to their gracious style, I got a gift of Vietnamese coffee from Madhumita and Kushal. That would be country #19!

Looks a bit like a ghost with cat whiskers, right?

With apologies to Govinda’s original song from Jodi No. 1 …

“आओ सिखाऊ तुम्हे पांडा का फंडा
ये नहीं प्यारे कोई मामूली बंदा”

The original song was about an egg! (go figure!)

In any case the Panda this morning on the cappuccino has come out fairly decent.