This is good stuff.
Is it grown anywhere besides Thailand?
It’s also grown in Texas, California, Vietnam and China. But the best quality is said to come from Thailand.
This site claims it can be grown anywhere that rice normally grows but that Thailand produces the best.
Does anyone know where it is possible to get baby jasmine rice? I had it in a restaurant, the rice grains being about a third the normal size, it was excellent a little closer to cous-cous texture than usual rice but fragarent as good Jasmine rice?
As a long time eater of japanese rice, Jasmine rice is icky - smells like popcorn.
Jasmine rice (khau malit) was developed to grow in the harsh conditions of Thailand’s poorest area, the Isaarn region. This area is hot and prone to droughts. So I’d imagine that Texas would be a good fit. This type of rice is more resistant to drought and insect than other rice.
Bippy, is it possible you were eating “broken rice”? This is common in Vietnamese cuisine and can be found in most any Asian market.
I know broken rice, and that was what I expected I was going to get, but these were fully formed but minature rice grains. It was at an expensive restaurant, so they could obviously pick and choose their suppliers. The rice was both excellent and also an interesting slight change in texture due to the reduced size of the grains.