US Rice Paddy Ready for Kao Mao
It’s a bit too soon for me to take photos of the rice paddy, I just posted it on Wednesday of last week, and it’s now only Monday, but things progress very fast because of the hot summer sun. Rice paddy is not the reason why I went there today, I wanted to take photos of the dragonfly, they are such beautiful and fascinating creatures, and fast too, but I spotted one nearby and got a good shot, to see more photos at my blog.
The rice paddy is ready to make Kao Mao or young sticky rice, but he is not doing it because it’s too much work involved. I got lucky today because the owner was out working in his garden, and he showed me one grain of rice, after peeling off the cover, the rice still looks very young and after breaking it into half, I can see milky liquid, he said that it’s ready for Kao Mao, this is the normal white sticky rice.
There is no mistake on the color of this one, you are seeing it right, purple color, and that’s because it’s the Kao Khom, or Purple Sticky Rice, very pretty and this is my first time seeing Kao Khom in a rice paddy.
The very far end of his rice paddy is a normal white rice; they’re a bit taller than the sticky rice and a lot greener. He plants very little of it in comparison to the white sticky rice and Purple Sticky Rice.
I do have to admit that it’s hot as hell (which I don’t mind, I kind of like the hot weather, and can take the heat,) I’m out here for about 10 minutes and I’m sweating like crazy, but you probably don’t feel it, and do enjoy the photos. 
[...] part, I also posted at Laovoices.com. The rice paddy is ready to make Kao Mao or young sticky rice, but he is not doing it because [...]
Nice. What kind of rice is this? Sticky / glutenous rice?
[Nevermind the answer. I just saw you wrote it is sticky rice ]
I asked aunt Kian if the rice fields in Vientiane have any huang khao yet and she told me “no” and when I told her about this rice field in the US, she told me it must be khao na hai. I think Hmong people in Laos tend to grow khao hai and Lao Loum tend to grow khao na pee (annual rice) and khao na seng in the winter months.
When I was in Laos during the winter months (January and February) some people in Vientiane and in Pakse would grow khao na seng and they were not even knee high yet. It takes less time for khao na hai to grow and also for khao na seng, khao na pee takes the longest to grow.