If you're nursing a hangover, the L.A. Weekly's Jonathan Gold recommends heading to Koreatown for porridge. Bon Juk offers abalone porridge, or jeonbokjuk, that includes rice, water and abalone.

Traditionally eaten on Dongji, the winter solstice, patjuk is more than a warming bowl of comfort. Made from red beans — red is long believed to ward off misfortune — this porridge has been used in ...