Maharaj Market

Come early or don't come at all. This is a market for people doing their actual shopping, not a photo stop, and by ten in the morning a good number of stalls are already packing away. Doors open at five, and the first few hours are when the seafood counters are full, the aisles are properly busy and the prepared-food stalls are turning out southern Thai dishes for people on their way to work.

Signage is mostly Thai and nobody is going to hand you a menu in English, but you don't really need one. It's stall by stall, everything is out in front of you, and pointing works fine. Fruit, vegetables, fish, and cooked food you can eat standing up. If you want a sense of how Krabi town actually eats, this beats any of the night markets aimed at visitors.

Wear something light, because the covered sections get warm once the crowd builds, and shoes you don't mind getting wet. Fresh markets have puddles.