Eat in Krabi
Search Krabi dishes by craving — crab in yellow curry, gaeng som, khao yam and more.
7 dishes worth going out of your way for in Krabi, 1 of them vegetarian. Each one lists where to eat it, because the dish and the room that does it well are not the same question.
Khao yam and Roti and teh are a breakfast thing here, and sell out by mid-morning.
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7 Krabi dishes found
MildCrab, or soft-shell crab, wok-fried with curry powder, egg, evaporated milk, celery and spring onion into a thick golden sauce — Chinese-Thai in technique and nothing like a coconut curry.
฿300–700
Best around: The beach road, Ao Nang
Extra hotA thin, bright orange sour curry of tamarind and fresh turmeric with a great deal of chilli, cooked with fish and whatever vegetable is in season — often papaya or the pale southern gourds — and eaten with a lot of plain rice.
฿60–150
Best around: Riverside, Krabi Town and Krabi Town and the villages along the coast road
MildA southern rice salad — rice tinted blue with butterfly-pea flower, ringed by shredded raw vegetables, toasted coconut, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaf, dried shrimp and pomelo, with a dark budu dressing of fermented fish poured over and everything tossed together.
฿40–80
Best around: Riverside, Krabi Town and Krabi Town and the villages along the coast road
Dough slapped, stretched and griddled to order, folded around banana or egg or torn plain into curry, with teh — hot tea pulled back and forth between two jugs until it foams — from the same Thai-Muslim shops.
฿20–60
Best around: Riverside, Krabi Town and The walking street between Railay East and West
Sator — the flat green 'stink beans' that grow on trees across the south — stir-fried hard with prawns, chilli and shrimp paste, so that the beans keep their bite and their smell.
฿100–220
Best around: Riverside, Krabi Town
HotA whole sea bass steamed over a burner at the table in a broth of lime juice, garlic, chilli and fish sauce, with the herbs going in at the last moment so nothing cooks in the sauce.
฿250–600
Best around: The beach road, Ao Nang and The walking street between Railay East and West
Sea bass, squid, prawns, rock lobster and blue crab bought by weight off ice at the front of the restaurant and grilled or steamed to order, with nam jim seafood — chilli, garlic, lime and fish sauce — on the side.
฿400–1,000 a head
Best around: The beach road, Ao Nang and The walking street between Railay East and West
