Nowon 9am breakfast restaurant, beef wasabi bowl: Prefers Diet Food

This delicious-looking food is actually diet food! And it's a super healthy, tasty menu with protein content pushing close to 50g — let me introduce this Nowon Station salad spot I visited.

Prefers Diet Food Nowon Station branch: menu and prices

Prefers Diet Food Nowon Station branch just opened recently, so it's super clean. It opens at 9am, so I went early in the morning for a meal. Usually only bakeries or cafés open at 9, so it was great to be able to have an actual meal that early.

What impressed me a lot was that the protein content is listed right on the menu board. Portion size matters when you eat, but protein content matters just as much. They even sell protein shakes, so you can tell how serious Prefers is about protein, right?

You order at a kiosk, where you can choose takeout or dine-in. I ate in the store.

There's currently an event where you get a drink or an egg for writing a review, and if you eat 10 times, the 11th is free.

They have a wide range of diet food ready — pasta, bowls, plates, curry, double bowls, yogurt and more — and if you pick a combo menu, you get a drink included. For sides there's sweet potato, roasted egg, sweet pumpkin, and other menus that give you both fullness and protein. Prices are reasonable too, so it seems like a great spot for anyone watching their diet or protein intake.

Can you eat alone here? Seating and atmosphere

Prefers Diet Food Nowon Station branch is set up really well for solo dining. With 2-person and 4-person tables, it's fine for groups too, but great for eating alone. There's also bar seating where you can look outside while eating solo. Since it's newly opened, the store, tables, and chairs are all spotless and clean, of course.

Beef wasabi rice bowl and pork salad pasta: how they tasted

What I ordered was the pork salad pasta and the beef wasabi rice bowl. When I think of a Nowon Station salad, I usually picture just leaves and grass, but a salad this healthy and packed with protein makes dieting seem not so hard.

Doesn't the beef look amazing? Honestly, I wanted to order the beef salad pasta and the beef wasabi rice bowl both with beef, but since it was my first time here, we split it into chicken and beef.

Sometimes beef can be tough or have a gamey smell, so I couldn't predict how the beef at Prefers Diet Food would be on my first visit. To play it safe, I ordered one pork and one beef, and...

There was truly no smell at all, and the cut of meat looked like flat iron steak — it was so tender it was just delicious through and through. Personally I liked it more than the pork, so I'd totally recommend ordering the beef.

It came with a sauce too, so I drizzled it on and started eating.

There was plenty of meat and plenty of vegetables, so overall it felt like a really healthy meal. But it actually tasted good, so it didn't feel like typical diet food — more like just eating a genuinely tasty meal. I could eat like this every day. It's not just greens and meat but a rice bowl, so you get fullness too, which is really nice. I love rice bowls, so I was completely satisfied.

Next up is the pork salad pasta my companion picked. Pasta noodles have high protein content and don't spike blood sugar right away, so it's a food I often eat while dieting too.

Low fat, high protein pork cut — diet food you can actually enjoy eating!

It really felt like eating a salad pasta. And with meat added on top, there's no way it couldn't be tasty.

Why Prefers Diet Food is worth it for breakfast in Nowon

If you're looking for a Nowon Station salad spot, I recommend Prefers Diet Food Nowon branch, which goes beyond plain salad to give you plenty of protein and great flavor too. Prefers is actually a chain, and this was my first visit. But even as a chain, the quality is well maintained and it was so delicious that I think I'll come back again just for the taste, diet aside. I recommend this Nowon Station solo dining spot to anyone who wants a healthy, tasty meal on their own.

Address and hours

• Hours 09:00–21:00
• Last order 20:50
• In front of Nowon Station Exit 9