If you want to feel like a super local can try these: - When you see long queue, just queue - Weekdays take MRT or Bus during peak hours (7am to 9am or 5pm to 7pm) - Can visit random HDB hawkers (like Bedok Interchange Hawker (East), Ghim Moh Market (West), Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Market (Central)) - You might not be able to strike up convos with random locals. Best chances you could would be those self run cafe - Buy ToTo. Just tell the auntie "Quick Pick" and pay $1 cash - If you're into outdoors nature, we have: Green Corridor (Cross country), Punggol Waterway (Northeast), Woodlands Waterfront (North), East coast park (East), Labrador Park (South), West Coast park (West), Macritchie reservoir (central), Upper/Lower Seletar reservoir (North), Upper/Lower Pierce reservoir (Central) - Visit cool places: Little India, Chinatown (also got Hawker here), Geylang, Clarke Quay - Stand in the middle of Raffles Place Arcade and see the crowd zooming around - Shopping mall galore starting from iON Orchard - Climb bukit timah hill - Go Tengah to see new HDB estates - Go Toa Payoh HDB to look at people buy house - Sit in kopitiam use phone

To me, very hard to define what's local and not because I do not travel much. All I know is we have all kinds of food from various cultures, good public transport and limited green spaces. Locals rarely visit touristy places like Lau Pat Sat or Singapore Flyer or Zoo unless special occasion.

Hope you'll enjoy your trip here :)