5 Delicious Thai Dishes to Try in Krabi - Savour the mouth-watering tastes of the idyllic south

The world-renowned Thai dish, which needs no introduction even on land outside the Southeast Asian nation, Pad Thai makes the perfect gateway to Thai cuisine for foreign taste buds. The flavourful stir-fried dish is mostly popular as a street food and has tender rice noodles as the primary ingredient, with tofu, dried shrimp, bean sprouts, and eggs making the rest of the ingredients. The addition of meat to the dish is also a common practice, where chicken and pork are the most popular choices. The other-worldly combination of sweet, sour, and salty flavours, complemented by a well-balanced contrast of textures, make a mouthful of Pad Thai comparable to no other.

For those after a truly authentic Thai experience, Malang Tod won’t disappoint. Take your pick from the assortment of fried insects, from crickets and beetles to worms and grasshoppers, and enjoy it with a serving of pepper and a dip in soy sauce, fish sauce or both — any way your taste buds would prefer to indulge in the wildly bizarre traditional dish. Malang Tod has gained its name in the city of Bangkok predominantly, mostly as a street food, but Krabi is also no stranger to the supposedly super nutritious and super delicious dish.

Tom refers to the boiling process, while yam means “mixed”, the aptly named Tom Yum is a hot, sour and breathtakingly aromatic soup, often served as an appetiser or an accompaniment to fluffy white rice. In its basic form, the traditional soup is a combination of lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lime juice, fish sauce, chilli peppers, and most important of all, shrimp. Tom Yum is a widely relished dish, not just in Krabi but across the entire Southeastern Asian nation, so much so a number of different regional varieties of the dish have also emerged over the years.

A traditional Thai dessert to your traditional Thai meal, Khao Niao Mamuang is both a snack and a dessert favoured by locals and tourists alike. The bed of pure white glutinous rice steamed and doused in sweetened coconut milk, sitting next to freshly cut pieces of juicy yellow mango — it is a treat for the eyes just as it is for the tongue.

The spicy green salad, Som Tam may be one of the easiest and most simple dishes of Thai cuisine, but packs a huge punch of flavour, sure to leave you drooling for more. The traditional dish is being served at Phi Phi Islands restaurants, offered by properties such as SAii Phi Phi Island Village, and eateries in other parts of the country as well.