Krabi is a nice town, you have to go through it to get to a few islands and beaches, so the area around the pier is touristed up a little with white people coming through. But moving away from that it's just a normal midsized city. They have a pretty good sized food market during the day (at least they did on Friday) which was about a third fruits and vegetables and fresh stuff. (half stuff I know, half stuff I'm totally unfamiliar with) then a third food stalls selling random pieces of food, fried chicken, egg rolls, fish, all sorts of things, then another third of half restaurant places. They'll just have one or two dishes (or 10 or 20 differnt curries to put on rice, or various things to that effect) and have 3-4 tables. All in all for lunch there I spent 2 dollars and got a large plate of sliced fruits with sugar/chili powder for dipping, fried chicken thigh,sun dried salted beef on sticky rice, deep fried rice noodles, and a hunk of chicken on a stick covered in curry sauce. It's bit quite as big and it doesn't have the same variety of things as the borough market in london, but nearly everything is amazing and exotic. At the night market for dinner (which is just a dozen or so of the minirestaurant type stalls and another half dozen food stalls) I had a plate of fried mussels which was absolutely fantastic. That was 40 baht a little over a dollar. And for 12 more baht I got a banana shake which I've become obsessed with. I'm curious to see how good a banana shake I can make with the horrible American bananas. The real secret to the banana shake, as with all thai sweets, is sweetened condensed milk.
I think my new project will be to take pictures of everything I ever eat. that'd be a heck of a blog, eh?