01: Silom turned into a market

02: Tea made its way into our cocktails

03: Our favorite coffee shops started to multiply. And haven’t stopped.

04: Our street stalls disappeared... sort of... from a couple of areas

05: We fell under a military regime

06: Italian food reached new levels

07: French bakeries happened

08: We went on actual nights out in Chinatown

09: Atelier Robuchon finally opened

10: But was beaten to it by a bunch of other Michelin chefs

11: Duangrit Bunnag invented a reason to cross the river

12: Craft beer became the only beer anyone drinks

13: Largely because cocktails were so expensive

14: Especially the barrel-aged ones, though they were delicious

15: We went crazy for kebabs

16: We started living slowly

17: Thailand got a proper music festival with camping and everything

18: Food trucks trucked into town

19: Burger standards got so good our old faves seemed inedible

20: Though they had stiff competition from Taiwanese buns

21: And people turned on Escapade

22: Cycling became so serious we invested in fly-wheels

23: Followed by proper running shoes

24: We started drinking cold brew

25: Everyone flew to Japan

26: Really, the amount of craft beer we drank was ridiculous

27: Farm-to-table was out; wilderness-to-table was in

28: We learned what omakase means

29: A machine learned to judge Thai food

30: Mariah Carey proved that somewhere in the world people still care about her

31: We swapped our New Balances for Nikes

32: Shouty men shouted exercise instructions at us from DVDs

33: Vintage Scandinavian got dumped for industrial American

34: We put down Monocle and picked up Kinfolk

35: Which taught us to hang dry flowers upside down and eat off chopping boards

36: No menu was complete without burrata

 

37: We didn’t buy any clothes at Siwilai. But we did like the idea of it

38: Beef needed to be better than just Kobe

39: Did we mention the craft beer?

40: Everyone wanted to be a craftsman

41: New apartments shrunk to micro-size

42: Meaning our decades-old condos were deemed cool again

43: Sqweez Animal played everywhere

44: We stopped petting cats and started playing board games

45: Chiang Mai became seriously awesome

46: We attached our phones to sticks and took the most awesome selfies ever

47: We all Instragrammed this

48: Some nice places to drink popped up in shopping malls

49: The Japanese threatened to leave even though we made such an effort with their food

50: But not before bringing us good cheesecake

51: Cosmic Cafe closed and we had nowhere to party

52: Then Studio Lam opened

53: We all wanted to join a co-working space

54: No matter how many places opened, Phra Khanong continued to suck (kinda)

55: We lost track of how many Water Libraries there are

56: Uber arrived, but then got taken away, but none of the drivers stopped working, and now we’re not really sure what’s happening.