# Pre-exhibition dinner near Jongno: pumpkin soup at Wystab Diet - By Moyeon (https://superchart.com/en/@noodle-stop-journal/) - Written Sep 7, 2026 - Local places › Restaurants › Jongno, Seoul - Sponsored: This is an experience review written after visiting with items provided by the restaurant. - English edition: https://superchart.com/en/@noodle-stop-journal/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/ - Also in: [한국어](https://superchart.com/ko/@noodle-stop-journal/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/index.md) ## In short Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun is a salad and poke restaurant a 3-minute walk from Exit 1 of Jonggak Station in Jongno, Seoul. For dinner before an exhibition, the writer added a side set, a drink, and a protein box, eating chickpea and green bean toppings, pumpkin soup, and a pasta-base beef protein box. Light but very filling, it's a place worth returning to twice a week for meal management. ## Good to know - **Hours**: Mon–Fri 10:00–20:40 (last order 20:10) - **Closed**: Every Saturday and Sunday - **Location**: Within a 3-minute walk from Exit 1 of Jonggak Station - **Event**: Naver receipt review event — show a printed receipt for a free drink - **Base options**: Salad, oats, pasta, tofu noodles, cauliflower rice - **Protein options**: Tofu, beef, chicken, smoked duck, salmon - **Soups**: Pumpkin soup, tomato soup - **This order**: Side set + drink + added protein box, sparkling water and pumpkin soup, pasta-base beef protein box *as written by the visitor on Sep 7, 2026* Here's another healthy meal update — today I want to share my review of Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun, a poke restaurant I'd recommend for solo dining with salads near Gwanghwamun. 🌿 I've already reviewed this place several times, but it really is the salad lunch spot I keep coming back to for solo meals — lately I've been eating nothing but heavy food, so I decided it was time again for a healthy meal-management post. Why? Because today is Monday 🥹🫶😇 and even if it only lasts three days, I wanted to start light with a solo salad meal! ![A full salad poke spread at Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-01-1vhk0-1200.webp) ![Close-up of a poke bowl at Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-02-285vd-900.webp) ![Salad topped with toppings at Wystab Diet](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-03-14plo-900.webp) ![Protein box with side dishes](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-04-958a6-900.webp) ## Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun's hours and location > Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun - ⏰ Hours: Closed every Saturday and Sunday / Monday–Friday 10:00–20:40 (last order 20:10) - 📌 Location: within a 3-minute walk from Exit 1 of Jonggak Station - Join the Naver receipt review event — show a printed receipt for a free drink :-) ![Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun storefront near Jonggak Station](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-05-2b448-900.webp) ## Twice a week on a salad diet Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun makes a great solo lunch spot in Gwanghwamun. Since I've gone back to skipping the lunchbox at work and eating heavy meals instead, I make sure to have a healthy salad, poke, or high-protein salad meal at least twice a week. The lunches I usually end up eating at work are burgers, kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup), yeoptteok (spicy stir-fried rice cakes), or Chinese food... 🥲🥲 Even eating just one meal like that a day is enough to put on weight. Even with the exact same activity level, or more!!!! So I've decided that at least twice a week, I'm sticking with light but satisfying salad and poke meals for solo lunches on weekdays. It's supposedly so I can enjoy good food guilt-free on the weekend, to make up for the heavy meals I ate during the week? Hahahaha. But funnily enough, whenever I eat like this and keep it up, my weight actually goes down a little. And I'm someone who runs wild hunting down restaurants every weekend... (It's all thanks to the salad solo meals at Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun.) ![Salad poke meal shot from above](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-06-bfxvr-900.webp) ## Dinner after work, before an exhibition Anyway, this time I was planning to spend about two hours at an exhibition after work, and going in on an empty stomach seemed like it would leave me exhausted, so I decided on a light but filling dinner at salad restaurant Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun before heading over. ![Clean, tidy seating inside the store](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-07-n92ze-900.webp) ![Ordering counter area at Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-08-4zmcn-900.webp) ![A table set up for the meal](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-09-vba2i-900.webp) My husband often gets takeout from here, but this time I visited in person after a while and ate at the store — the space was still kept clean and well managed :-) ## The fun of choosing base, protein, and toppings ✅ Gwanghwamun solo-dining menu recommendation from Wystab Diet We added a side set, a drink, and a protein box. I've checked out a lot of salad and poke restaurant brands, but Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun seems to be the only place where you can choose from bases beyond just salad — oats, pasta, tofu noodles, cauliflower rice. And to suit Korean tastes for a warm broth, they also have pumpkin soup and tomato soup that pair well with a salad meal, plus a protein lineup of tofu, beef, chicken, smoked duck, and salmon — nowhere else has all of that. Wystab Diet also has just the toppings I usually like. ![Menu setup for choosing base and protein](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-10-tm63j-900.webp) ![Topping selection guide and menu board](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-11-lrlu7-900.webp) I love chickpeas and green beans/soybean sprouts, so I always make sure to add these too. When I get takeout, I always have these at home, so I tend to just add extra from what I already have... hahaha. (Give the chickpeas and green beans a try.) (They're really delicious.) ![Salad topped with added chickpeas and green beans](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-12-e8mw7-900.webp) ![Pumpkin soup served with a salad set](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-13-vgoem-900.webp) ![Pasta-base beef protein box](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-14-f9w7f-900.webp) ![Protein box served with sparkling water](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-15-1068i-900.webp) ![Close-up of beef topping](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-16-1ol3a-900.webp) ![Salad and soup laid out together on the table](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-17-1swwl-900.webp) ![A poke bowl with a bite already taken](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-18-1559s-900.webp) ![Finished protein box and drink after the meal](https://img.superchart.com/images/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition-19-2y9oj-900.webp) ## Sparkling water, pumpkin soup, and a pasta-base beef protein box We added sparkling water and pumpkin soup, and today my husband went with a beef protein box on a pasta base. (Compared to me, who always orders the same thing, he tends to try new things every time, picking different toppings and bases.) What do you think? This is a meal I eat really often, and every time it's completely filling without ever getting old — the solo salad menu at Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun. If you overate or ate too much of the same thing over the weekend, I hope you'll try a healthy but filling salad meal for at least one meal. Right here — at Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun!! ## Where it is - Wystab Diet Gwanghwamun (와이스타브 다이어트 광화문점) - 19 Jong-ro, B1 122-2, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea - 서울특별시 종로구 종로 19 지하1층 122-2호 - 37.5708344, 126.9798606 - Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%EC%99%80%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%80%EB%B8%8C%20%EB%8B%A4%EC%9D%B4%EC%96%B4%ED%8A%B8%20%EA%B4%91%ED%99%94%EB%AC%B8%EC%A0%90/@37.5708344,126.9798606,17z --- Superchart · https://superchart.com/en/@noodle-stop-journal/jonggak-poke-dinner-before-exhibition/ · https://superchart.com/llms.txt