Congee (Rice Porridge) With Minced Pork and Crispy Shallots

A bowl of this creamy, gingery rice porridge is the culinary equivalent of a warm hug. Before I moved to Singapore, I had never eaten a bowl of congee, or rice porridge. The name "congee" sounded so foreign to me and it looked unappealingly goopy (even though I eat my fair share of goopy oatmeal …