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This Long Weekend’s Most Unexpected Date Idea: Speed Dating in Dialect
Forget dinner and a movie — Monday’s public holiday special has singles flirting in Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese near Stevens MRT.
By Onz Editorial · 9 August 2026
Dating apps have made flirting feel like admin. So here’s a plot twist for the long weekend: a public holiday special billed as Singapore’s first-ever Chinese dialect speed dating, happening Monday 10 August at 2pm near Stevens MRT (TE11).
The premise is exactly as charming as it sounds — meet people and break the ice in Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese and friends, the languages your grandparents argued about dinner in. Even if your dialect vocabulary starts and ends at food words (honestly, a strong foundation), that’s precisely the kind of icebreaker no app bio can deliver. Tickets are S$29.
And if the speed round leaves you with more feelings than matches, the universe has a follow-up: Circle of Feelings: Love Edition happens Saturday 15 Aug, 7pm at Proud Spaces SG, S$10 — a guided session for actually unpacking all that love talk.
Public holiday Monday, 2pm, S$29, possibly a story you’ll tell at your wedding. Know a single friend? You know what to do with that share button.
Don’t say we bojio 📬
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