Thursday, February 25, 2010

Kava Time





The villages of Fiji are very strict. Women must wear long skirts and men even often wear a long skirt called a suva. They go to church every Sunday even if the church is on a different island entirely. That means that they have to take a boat to church. They also do not allow any alcohol in the villages. Fijians though drink a beverage called Kava (every evening except Sunday). It is mixed in a bowl and looks like muddy water. It is a combination of water and kava root (that has been crushed into a fine powder) that is mixed by hand. It is served in smaller Kava bowls and before drinking, you must clap your hands together once. After drinking, you must clap 3 times. Shawn and I tried Kava and I thought that it tasted how it looked...like brown muddy water. It also makes your lips tingle!

4 comments:

  1. Mate...this looks like Green Drink that you make me drink. Bleh! Is Kava good for you like Green Drink? Maybe if I clapped before and after Green Drink it would taste better?

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  2. katie...it was like doing a shot! and mate...maybe clapping will make green drink better, but it did not make kava better!

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  3. lol! So, it tasted like it looked, huh?
    That's so crazy that they go to church every Sunday, even if the church is on a different island. Are they protestant there?

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