1. We ran the longest “half marathon” ever
2. We swapped our imported craft beers for local homebrews
3. Everyone and their dog opened a food truck
4. No weekend was complete without an art, music and craft market
5. We began eating Chinese food by way of America. Or France.
6. We crashed the system with an F5 key
7. Giant chicken was replaced by giant squid
8. Our cold, mall-hating hearts were melted by EmQuartier and its waterfall
9. ‘90s boy bands proved Bangkok still loves them
10. We fought over tickets to see Adam Levine. For the fourth time.
11. We downloaded taxi apps and wondered how we ever got anywhere before
12. A state-designed riverside promenade struck fear in the hearts of Thai architects everywhere
13. Meanwhile, the docklands flooded our Instagram feed and showed us everything the river could possibly be
14. Opposite closed and sent Thonglor’s hipsters into a restaurant wilderness...
15. ...only to open a few weeks later on—shock, horror—Silom!
16. A kid from Isaan with a camera phone and some chicken baskets became the country’s biggest fashion sensation since Low-Cost Cosplay
17. A new wave of art spaces showed us art galleries don’t always need to double as bars
18. And we went to see all of them in one night. Or attempted to. #galleriesnight
19. After years of watching Korean soap opera, we finally got to try their desserts out for real
20. We started taking tea as seriously as we take our coffee
21. No new restaurant’s menu was complete without a tomahawk steak...
22. Grilled cheese sandwich…
23. Lobster roll...
24. Or a healthy dose of uni in everything
25. We all became #strong
26. Color Run, Music Run, Run with Me, Run with the Blind—we ran them all
27. We decamped to Pattaya and pretended to be hippies for a weekend
28. Dear Leader out-Trumped Donald Trump for saying stupid things: from wanting to punch journalists in the face, to wanting to print salaries on our ID cards, to accusing Southern hunger strikers of sneaking out to eat at night.
29. Terry Richardson’s campaign for Central Embassy generated the greatest collective “I can’t even” in history
30. We stopped queuing for popcorn and started queuing for dim sum
31. GTH left a quality Thai cinema-shaped hole in all our hearts
32. Virgin Active, Physique 57, Surfset, that Eastern European one—we never knew gyms came in so many varieties
33. One set of charter drafters got the boot and another lot set to work
34. Indigo tie-dye took over the collective imagination of our fashion designers
35. A movie about a less-than-holy monk got our film censors’ knickers in a twist
36. TCDC got threatened and we all freaked the f*** out
37. One of our fave somtam restaurants got a Michelin star... in New York
38. We took to two wheels and showed the world just how much we love our country
39. “Secret” bars weren’t so secret but did pour some damn fine cocktails
40. We waved goodbye to our favorite markets: from the food on Sukhumvit Soi 38, to the old men with their magic monks at Tha Phra Chan, to the dodgy electronics at Saphan Lek, to the lively characters at On Nut market
41. Our airlines were kicked out of U.S. airports
42. This fish can now be bought pretty much anywhere
43. Ramen burgers came to town but lasted all of one week
44. Tea cocktails bloomed into “botanical” cocktails
45. Baa Ga Din and Err took street food indoors and served it with style
46. The Chinatown bar boom proved more than just a flash in the pan
47. Thailand’s remake of Gossip Girl was as bad as everyone thought it would be
48. Someone from Game of Thrones turned up in Smalls and took selfies with everyone
49. Sushi Hiro started to multiply, Sala Daeng sprouted some amazing places for pizza, and Peppina took to the seaside
50. One bomb blast shook our hearts and made everyone in Bangkok put aside their differences
