Samseong Station salad restaurant: beef perilla oil pasta at Prefers

I had an early morning errand near Samseong Station this day! (For my partner's wish-fulfillment, haha.) That meant I had to eat brunch, and since we couldn't go all out for breakfast, we headed to a salad place.

Let me start my honest review of Prefers Samseong, a Samseong Station salad spot that pretends to be simple but is actually pretty filling :)

Where is Prefers Samseong? Location, hours and parking

Prefers Samseong is located at 33 Teheran-ro 87-gil, 1st floor, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and is open daily from 09:00 to 21:00. Parking isn't available, but delivery is.

• 🏠Location: 33 Teheran-ro 87-gil, 1st floor, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
• ⏰Hours: Daily 09:00–21:00
• 🅿️Parking: Not available
• ✔️Delivery: Available

Prefers Samseong is a super fresh spot that opened at the end of July. One also opened near my office — must be trending these days, haha.

Inside Prefers Samseong: seating and eating alone

The place is really spacious! There are also 4 self-order kiosks for busy modern folks, so ordering is quick. It seems like it'd get very busy on weekday lunch hours.

The interior is huge too! There's a bar table for eating comfortably alone, and plenty of 2- and 4-person tables. Because the space is so big, tables aren't crammed together, so it feels comfortable.

What is on the Prefers menu?

There are actually quite a lot of places selling salads or diet food, but Prefers has a slightly different menu.

• ✔️Plain salad
• ✔️Salad pasta
• ✔️Salad rice bowl
• ✔️Curry rice bowl

It's split into four big categories! Personally, salad alone never fills me up, haha. It doesn't even feel like I ate anything… and if I get hungry, I end up binge eating double.

So I like it when there's healthy black rice or pasta to eat alongside.

You can choose your protein from chicken, pork, or beef, and there's even a rice bowl with double protein, haha.

What we ordered: beef perilla oil pasta and pork curry rice bowl

• Beef Cheongyang Perilla Oil Pasta
• Pork Curry Rice Bowl

There wasn't a moment of hesitation when ordering today. The moment I saw it, I knew what I wanted to eat: the beef cheongyang perilla oil pasta, haha. Even at a regular restaurant, that name alone would tempt you... it smells like deliciousness.

Ta-da! It came out in a huge bowl, my heart was racing.

Beef cheongyang perilla oil pasta (14,900 won)

Whoa, the amount of meat is no joke. It's a bowl packed with beef, salad, pasta, cheongyang chili sauce, gim (seaweed) flakes, and perilla seeds.

Look at the meat... it's not dry, tough flesh. The vivid red meat is tender and really tasty.

The steak is 150g, so it's really filling. The meat never ran out — I got to eat it all the way through.

Can you see that meat color? It's seriously insane!! (in a good way) Plus there were so many perilla seeds, the popping texture was really nice.

Mixed all together it's so delicious. It's cheongyang perilla oil, but not spicy at all, so even those weak to spice don't need to worry (?).

Pork curry rice bowl (11,900 won)

Next up is my partner's pick, who was craving something filling with rice! It's pork, black rice, curry, broccoli, and paprika.

It's a hearty, meal-like composition! The curry was a mild, ordinary curry, not spicy at all. Since we're Korean, we both thought it might've been nice if the curry had a bit more kick, haha.

Take one bite like this and you've got a protein-packed diet meal complete ⭐️

Is Prefers Samseong worth it? Final verdict

It's honestly not a cheap price, but for the beef especially, the tender meat piled on top made it worth every won!! (My pick is beef>>>>>>>>>>>pork.) The sauce was really tasty too, so I got to eat a hearty meal that didn't feel like diet food at all, haha.

With meals like this, I feel like I could actually succeed at dieting 😌 That wraps up my honest review of Prefers Samseong, a great spot for solo dining too :)