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

 

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Catch up with all of BK's year-end coverage:

- Bangkok's best new restaurants of 2015

- Bangkok's best new bars of 2015

- The 21 best new hotel openings around Thailand in 2015

- 7 inspirational Thais who made us all proud in 2015

- The best Thai films of 2015

- 13 newly imported dining chains that brought great joy to Bangkok in 2015

- An interview with Bangkok's busiest chef of 2015

- The 15 most popular restaurants on the BK website for 2015

- The BK Music Awards 2015