Crab curry with rice noodles
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A Phuket favourite: blue swimmer crab in a turmeric-yellow coconut curry, often with wild betel leaf, ladled over soft khanom jeen rice noodles.

Khanom jeen, soft fermented rice noodles, are eaten across Thailand, but in Phuket they are paired most famously with crab. The southern golden curry is rich with turmeric and chilli and carries large pieces of blue swimmer crab, sometimes with wild betel leaf. One long-running Dibuk Road house, founded in 1994, built its name on it, and it is now the dish that restaurant is best known for.

3 editor picks for Crab curry with rice noodles in Phuket, ranked by editorial score. All Phuket signature dishes · Crab curry with rice noodles across every city.

One Chun ★ 4.5

฿฿Southern ThaiPhuket Town

One Chun is a Michelin Bib Gourmand fixture in a vintage-styled 19th century building in Phuket Town, cooking family recipes passed down the generations.

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Blue Elephant ★ 4.3

฿฿฿Southern ThaiOld Town

Blue Elephant occupies the restored governor's mansion Phra Pitak Chinpracha, plating chef Nooror's royal southern Thai menu in Old Town Phuket.

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Raya Restaurant ★ 4.1

฿฿Southern ThaiOld Town

Raya Restaurant, founded in 1994, cooks Phuket crab curry and southern Thai plates in an old Sino-Portuguese mansion on Dibuk Road in Phuket Old Town.

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