Travellers have been flooding Bangkok, elevating it into the most visited city on the planet. And it’s not just tourists. International five-star hotel chains, global luxury brands and renowned chefs are jockeying for prime spaces amid the traffic-packed boulevards and soaring skyscrapers of Thailand’s capital, boosting the street-food mecca into a high-end playground. But Bangkok, which this year is included in The New York Times Travel section’s 52 Places to Go, offers much more than bling.