Tourists with a taste for lobster head to Koh Libong

Local restaurants offer lobsters as sashimi, grilled and stir-fried with curry. - The Nation/ANN

BANGKOK: Tourists have been flocking to Koh Libong in Trang province to taste the iconic delicacy known as “7-colour lobster”, which local farmers have been raising in offshore farms in the Andaman Sea off Thailand’s west coast.

Prasit Bensa-ard, 51, who has been raising lobsters for over three decades, said on Thursday (Dec 28) that his 70 or 80 fully grown 7-colour lobsters have been reserved by local restaurants. The crustacean delicacy goes for 2,500-3,000 baht per kilogram, generating substantial income for the fishing community.