Laksa, a hearty soup with a coconut-based broth teeming with rice noodles, shrimp and chili paste, is often hailed as Singapore’s national dish. Several places lay claim to the original, but the laksa here is among the best. With outdoor seating and a cafeteria-like dining room, it’s a quirky place plastered with photographs of the owner (a former beauty queen) and the famous patrons who have slurped laksa here before you.