For me and many Thai people I know, it’s not a meal, per se, but an integral component of a meal: jasmine rice, or khao hom mali. The fragrant aroma of a fresh pot of steamed jasmine rice is ...

By the late 1950s, jasmine rice (called hom mali in Thai) had become the predominant rice grown in Thailand thanks to its superior flavor, favorable growing characteristics, and long grains that ...