Krabi's culinary arts came with incoming migrants, especially the Chinese and Thais from Nakhon Si Thammarat. Some types of
food are made with indigenous seasonal ingredenous, with unique stype of cooking.
Wing Shell
A must of Krabi, Wing Shell a specie of conch shell-can be found in many restaurants here. Literally meaning "pull their feet"
Wing Shell has a foot-like part protruding out of its shell. The shellfish parboiled, the consumers propell its protruding foot-like part to get meat out of the shell.
Meat is then soaked in spicy sauce.
Hoiwan Shell
Abumdant in sandy beach near mangrove forests and sold in local markets and restaurants, this bivalve can be stirfried with galingale
or sweet basil to make a munchy delicious dish.
Khanom cheen Namya,Southern stype
While khanom cheen namya-vermicelli served with spicy fish and coconut milk curry-is a popular dish in the South of Thailand, Krabi people distinctively like it with fried chicken.Many kinds of vegetables,
including fern are served together with khanom cheen namya.
Mochee dessert
The deliciously sweet and nicely smell Mochee is bite-ized ball made of glutinous rice flour with sweetened peanut paste inside, steamed and then mixed again with roasted glutinous rice flour.
The only one mochee shop left in Krabi is at the back of local market, this shop has sold mochee for at least 3 generations.
Laloymun dessert
Two slightly different desserts, Laloymun and Lached, are traditionally made especially for the tenth-month festival.
In order to make Lached, a mixture of rice flour, sugar and water is simmered until becoming
 thick mixture.
Thin layer of oil
is spread over entire inner surface of a heated frying.
The thick mixture is then placed in narrow steammed funnel, which is moved in circles above the hot frying, dropping threads
of sweetened mixture into the frying.
Then the cooked mixture is removed from the frying.
Krabi people prefer Laloymun, which is made in the same way as Laches, except that the mixture is dropped onto a frying
half-filled with hot cooking oil.
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