L.A. Times Food Critic Finds the Bossam 'Pretty Awesome' at Pasadena's 168

Colorado Boulevard mainstay Italian eatery and lounge Villa Sorriso at 168 W. Colorado Blvd. became 168 this past summer and started serving sushi and other fusion dishes. 

Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold paid a visit recently, focusing most of the review on the restaurant's bossam dish:

But the odd thing in this Chinese-named restaurant run by a Japanese chef is that the specialty of the kitchen seems to be the Korean dish bossam – a combination plate of boiled pork belly, spicy turnip kimchi and fermented tiny fish, which you wrap into a leaf of cabbage. And while there is also no shortage of Los Angeles dining rooms serving authentic bossam, including at least one restaurant that serves nothing but bossam and pig’s feet, what we really don’t have is one like this -- based on the party version made famous at David Chang’s Ssam Bar in New York’s East Village, which features a whole, crackle-skinned pork shoulder instead of the sliced boiled belly. It’s not what you find in Seoul, but it can be kind of delicious, and conducive to oceans of cold beer.