1. Artisanal Cheese

Les hipsters sure love their fromage, particularly if it’s stinky and unpasteurized and the food equivalent of a bungy jump that they can brag about over craft beers (see #2). Get the goods from Heaven on Cheese.

2. Craft Beer

Beerlao Dark just does not cut it anymore. Make sure you’re sipping a Brewdog or a Deschutes at these fine places: Shuffle, Brew Beer & Cider, Barka and Bangers. Or go one better and shell out on one of the limited batches at Mikkeller.

3. Artisanal Bread

A proper food hipster must be able to debate the merits of Conky’s bread (served at Quince and Little Beast, for example) versus Maison Jean-Philippe’s (served at Daniel Thaiger, Harlem Shakers and Bangers). See where to get them at tinyurl.com/muem7y2.

4. Drip Coffee

It’s not enough for your local barista to roast her own coffee anymore. She must also slowly let it drip through a filter as opposed to shooting through an espresso machine. If you're after lukewarm coffee you could just as easily make at home, get it at Ceresia, Gallery Drip Coffee and Casa Lapin. For extra cultural cred, opt for the Vietnamese drip coffee at Zoulviet.

5. Food Trucks

Some say neither Escapade nor Firehouse is the best burger in town. Instead, trendy foodies are queuing up in Soi 38 for a taste of Daniel Thaiger’s burger truck. Track him down on his Facebook page.

6. Hot Dogs

Speaking of food trucks, hot dogs are the new burger. Get your sausage-in-a-bun at Slider Shack (Nichada Thani), Bangers (Thonglor) or Hotdogs & Buns (Big C Extra, Rama 4), which combines the joys of doing a hot dog AND being a food truck. Instagram that! See who's top dog at tinyurl.com/omo7eo9.

7. Homemade Infused Liquors

Cocktails served in a maison jar are fine but now the crowds have already moved on to homemade infused liquors. The rules are simple: Who spices up their cocktails with the most bizarre ingredients wins. Drop by Smith, Escapade Burgers & Shakes and Junker Bar.

8. Cold-Pressed Juice

Your extra virgin oil is cold pressed, your coffee is cold pressed, and you're hard pressed to remember the last time you had a fruit juice that wasn’t cold pressed? Try Me Juice.

9. Brunch

Are you an eggs benedict hipster or more of an eggs florentine hipster? Unless you’re a huevos rancheros hipster, or a complete crepe hipster. Here’s our full roundup of brunchy joints, to find out which one it is.

10. Gluten-free Pastries

You don’t have to be allergic to gluten to be, “like, totally allergic to gluten.” Get your wheat-free baked goods at Theera and Tinee Eatery.

11. Edgy Charcuterie

Oh yes, you know your Lincolnshire from your Cumberland. But do you also indulge in blood sausage and haggis? Of course, you do. And you get it all from the one and only Sloane’s.

12. Syrup

Monin is so generic. The buzz over homemade syrup is stirred up by the people behind syrup maker Socrates who recently just opened the hip bar Sugar Ray in Ekkamai, a real place to see and be seen (or drink all alone).

13. Pickled Vegetables

You’ve stopped eating vegetables that haven’t been stored in a vinegar-filled mason jar. It’s a question of hipster ethics. Your faves: Opposite and Fatty’s Diner & Bar.

14. Tonic Syrup

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Schweppes is for fools. Hipsters would never ever go near the stuff. If they can’t get a hold of Fevertree tonic, they like to add a bit of tonic syrup to their Chang soda, such as in the gin tonic served at Quince.

15. Marou Chocolate

It’s made in Vietnam and printed with the blood of virgins during full moons, or something like that. Marou cholate’s packaging is so beautiful, we just leave a bar next to our iMac at all times. We hear it tastes good, too. Get it at Ceresia.

16. Barrel-aged Cocktails

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Barrel-aged wine? Nope. And in the time it's taken you to read this far, homemade infused liquors (#7) have been surpassed by this latest mixology trend, said to offer whole new layers of flavor. Get a glass of barrel-aged negroni at Vesper.
 

17. Sandwiches

The humble sandwich suddenly ain't so humble when you drop the "artisanal" bomb. Go grab a handful of the good stuff: the banh mi with beef brisket and blue cheese at Vietnamese & More, the gravlax on Danish rye at Rocket, the bagels at BKK Bagel or, the perhaps king of them all, the pulled-pork bun at Opposite Mess Hall.