There´s crocodile and hog stomach, but Jonathan Gold is all about the crusty rice at Nature Pagoda
(LA Times NBA)

At Nature Pagoda, the crucial moment of your meal is when the super-heated clay pot hits your table, a small bowl of dark sauce balanced on its dome-shaped lid. A server hands you the sauce. A server removes the lid. You dribble the liquid down the sides of the pot, where it thickens and seethes...