Thoughtful evenings and afternoons for two.
Budgets are a typical total for two people, in Singapore dollars.
Four Chinese kitchens, Goodwood Park to Sentosa, run hairy crab menus this autumn. Small crabs, mostly shell, sets mostly for two: go for the roe, book and confirm dates.
Wild Rice's holiday panto returns after a decade: songs, wushu and magic at Funan, 12 November to 27 December. Book a weekend matinee early; at about 150 minutes, evenings are long for small children.
Hand-painted brick canvases begun in 2008, duhat-wood towers and four films, at SAM until 22 November. Free for citizens and PRs; go slowly, and go soon.
Trishaw riders, labourers on lunch break and a boat crossing quietly about belonging: the first solo show since the 1960s for a Nanyang pioneer. Free for locals, until October 2027.
Louis XIV's jade cup and a brass ewer shaped like a chicken lead 100 Louvre pieces at ACM until 24 January. Free for citizens and PRs; go on a Friday, when it stays open late.
Four life-size Mogao cave replicas at the Asian Civilisations Museum until 7 March, plus a stamp rally that gets children round. The shortest route to Dunhuang runs through Empress Place.
Warhol, Lichtenstein and Kruger beside Ming Wong and FX Harsono: 200-plus works across the National Gallery from 11 December, with the Guggenheim. Start with the names you don't know.
Paintings, poems, calligraphy and seals by the ink teacher who settled in Singapore in 1956, at the National Gallery from 16 October to 31 January. Free for locals; give it a slow weekday.
Esplanade's Indian arts festival turns 25 with Sachin-Jigar's Singapore debut, two Aakash Odedra works and free shows in the public spaces, 20 to 29 November. Book one night; stroll the rest.
Tan Twan Eng and Jemimah Wei among 300-plus voices across the Civic District, 13 to 22 November. Amitav Ghosh's keynote is sold out; Stephen Witt's was still on sale on 11 November. Pick three or four sessions.
More than 2km of Serangoon Road lit overhead every evening from 3 October to 29 November. Free; the quiet option is a weeknight, or late November once the festival has passed.
The easiest date is one that arrives with its own subject. Choose something to look at or do first, then a table where the conversation can carry on.
