Balinese Rice

[Kawika]

is rice grown on Bali available for purchase? where? when? Thanks

[tintin]

Since you are located in the USA (where?), I assume you are interested in finding the product in this country. In the Boston area, one can get rice from Indonesia (I've seen it once or twice at the local Asia market where I shop), but I've never seen on the bags that it was specifically from Bali, or any other region of the Archipelago for that matter. If I remember well, the Indonesian rice exporter was from Surabaya.

[Kawika]

Thanks Daniel.

But what I was trying to ask was where and when can you purchase Balinese rice in Bali?

[Markit]

If you can't find rice in Bali try for some potatoes in Idaho or I've heard rumors that you may get pineapples in Hawaii. :lol:

[tintin]

Come on Kawika, I give up: what's the punch line? :roll:

[Jimbo]

Kawika

You might want to put a bit more meat to your question. Bali has along with many parts of Indonesia the ability to grow 3 rice crops a year so rice is available for sale all year round even more especially as Balinese and Indonesia in general are rice eaters.

Throughout Bali and Indonesia there are also many different varieties of rice for sale and different quality as well. If you are trying to import rice for business purposes you need to be a lot more specific. If it is for private purposes well you can make a visit and buy whatever you like.

Not sure if anybody can help you further as we are neither growers or sellers.

[BaliLife]

i don't know what if anything is special about balinese rice (from a food perspective i mean).. my family are large rice eaters, (that's the biggest problem when it comes to weight control), and i'd have to say i rate pretty much all south asian rice right up there with something i'd feed my pet cat, if had one.. if rice were a religion, basmati would be god, and for those sinners who wanted a more starchy rice, basmati would have mercy on their souls and offer them arborio.. everytime my inlaws prepare rice (which unfortunately is everytime i'm at their house), i claim to be on a no carb diet - thankfully my wife has learnt how rice was intented to be eaten, and now also is in the basmati clan.. i'm sure bali rice makes good glue though :P

ct

[Bert Vierstra]

Come on Kawika, I give up: what's the punch line? :roll:

There isn't. He just wanted to know if he could recognize rice from Bali somehow...

;)

[Kawika]

Thanks all for the responses including the funny ones. Jimbo thanks. I am looking for locally grown rice, for a buddy's consumption. He heard its supposed to be great stuff, where he got that I idea, I haven't a clue. I'll be in town in a couple days and I guess, I'll ask around. Thanks. Re, pineapples costco in hawaii sells some pineapples called maui gold, pretty good.

[tintin]

Bert,

Kawika wrote,

But what I was trying to ask was where and when can you purchase Balinese rice in Bali?

and I guess Markit answered him humorously and correctly: if one cannot find Balinese rice in Bali, where does one finds it? So, something must have been "lost in the translation," as they say, since Kawika has been a registered member of this Forum since almost 3 years. I assume then that he reads this Forum from time to time, and must have some familiarity with Bali, enough to know that one can buy Balinese rice in Bali, bukan? :roll: