Thursday, 24 October 2013

Day 41 - out and about in Suva : part II

Back to the market today (topping up my papaya hoard) and ventured upstairs to where the real action happens.  

Kava (the local Fijian name is yaqona) is very popular throughout the Pacific, prepared here in Fiji as a drink called "grog" (I'd seen it advertised on hoardings but wrongly assumed grog was a more generic term) by pounding sun-dried kava root into a fine powder, straining and mixing it with cold water for drinking (traditionally) from the shorn half-shell of a coconut, called a bilo. It's often drunk at parties but I'm reliably informed that it's an acquired taste



The other recent discovery is cassava cake...


Followed later by an evening cocktail by the water


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