That reminds me, did you ever get the jook the way you like it? A week or so ago I went to a dinky, newish Chinese place in Berkeley I'd previously bypassed because their dim sum choices were so few. Had a fish filet jook aka congee and some dim sum that seemed to have been prepared right then. It was surprisingly good! The lo mai gai (rice in leaf) didn't have interesting filling so it was the most boring of the ones I tried.