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The Morning After: At Koreatown's Bon Juk and Mountain, Porridge Is the Cure

Sometimes rice gruel with abalone is just what your roiling insides need

Bon Juk also specializes in jeonbokjuk, which comes out more like a loose risotto than like gruel here, spiked with hard, chewy, black-edged bits of abalone, and somehow both more intense and blander than its equivalent a few blocks south. How do you choose between the cheaper version of the dish and the one that costs $29.95? “You pay twice as much,” says the waitress, “but you get three times the abalone.”

Bon Juk: 3551 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., (213) 380-2248. Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat., 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., 8 a.m.-9 p.m. No alcohol. Takeout. MC, V. Porridge, $8.95-$29.95.

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Slippery slope: Mountain’s abalone porridge, protection from the abyss

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Bon Juk

3551 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90010

Category: Restaurant > Korean

Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park

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Mountain: 3064 8th St., L.A., (213) 487-7615. Open daily, 24 hours. No alcohol. Takeout. MC, V. Porridge, $7.95.

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