Kava Drinking at Nakava Kava Bar

Kava drinking at North America's first kava bar, Nakava. Kava is a traditional drink from the south Pacific, specifically Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Hawaii. Kava is made from the roots of a pepper plant and is drank for ceremonial, spiritual, medicinal, and recreational reasons. Kava tastes bad, but feels oh so good. This shot is of a bartender at Nakava drinking a shell of kava reluctantly on-camera. Thanks Michelle for being such a good sport. You rock!

For more informtion about kava or Boca Raton's kava bar visit [ http://www.nakava.com ] or [ http://www.myspace.com/nakava ].

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[TonganSoIja63]

Kava drinking originated in the Polynesian culture. For ladies to drink Kava is very taboo.

[dragonproject]

kava drinking actually originated in Melanesian culture and through trade and migration came to Polynesian culture. in melanesian culture, I have seen many women drink kava.

[TonganSoIja63]

you are dead wrong. Polynesians were the first..polynesians been drinking that way before the white man came and documented it. its in tongan resources and you cant find it in European resources. This is sacred to the polynesian culture

[dragonproject]

i am not talking about white people. melanesians are in fact black pacific islanders (such as, Vaunatu and New Guinea). Kava originates in Vanuatu and that is not the polynesian. kava came to tonga and fiji along with the first settlers of those island.

[uke55]

oh shyt...neva seen dis before...4reoz where is dis at

[dragonproject]

Nakava is in Boca Raton, Florida, USA

[islandlewa]

Im fijian and hell yess the women drink it ! Some of our biggest chiefs in Fiji are women n they have to drink the kava in culutral ceremonies ! ive never heard of any women in the polynesian or melanesian culture that can't drink kava

[WarshMeh]

I like her.....shes awesome

[DatMangoSentinel]

@dragonproject

I'm pretty sure nobody knows where it was first originated.

[thatgirlkelly1]

People need to stop being such pussies. Kava is a bit gritty, but it tastes bitter like over-brewed tea. Really not that bad.

[hotfudgemoney]

Tongan, you didn't even prove him wrong by saying it exists in Polynesian religions.

How does that have any bearing on how long the plant has been around. He's actually quite correct. It doesn't really matter what culture discovered Kava first, I'm pretty sure your ancestors didn't give a damn. :DDD

[bestmom123zzz]

n'importe koi parsque le kava o vavuatu est interdi o femme et ne se distribue pas dans les bar il se bois dans le calme et dans un nakamal vous les blanc en faite n'importe koi!!!! vous n'avez ri1 D'inteligent a montré!!!! signée une métisse kanak vanuataise !!!!

[sione24]

who cares who planted the first kava seed or whatever just grab my guitar and lets drink n sing the night away ya feels me

[naqalaka]

the itch you got is called KARA which means you did'nt drink enough because you killed the real effect with your mix drink, moce mada vakalailai

[randypanda11]

Tongan just got his panties in a bunch.

[ellyunfortunetly]

Sorry to break to you guys but I'm pretty sure the melanesians gave to the polynesians, and the melanesians got it from the zabesians. The zabesians got it from the cwackamesians. Who were given it by the bedesians.