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Nom Wah Restaurant

Terminal 5•Gates 525•Post-Security
BreakfastAsian Cuisine

Hours

5:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Known for its handmade dumplings and classic dim sum dishes, the brand brings more than a century of culinary tradition to travelers passing through Terminal 5.

Finding it

Nom Wah Restaurant is in Gates 525 in Terminal 5 near Gates 525 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.

Nearest gates
Gates 525
Level
3

Terminal 5 has 33 places to eat and 8 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 3:30am.

Hours against the security queue

Nom Wah Restaurant opens at 5am and closes at 11pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 28 minutes around 5am.

Across the week, JFK security runs longest around 8am at a median of 33 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 10 minutes. The queue is typically building before this location opens.

Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's JFK wait-time record, not a live reading.

What to expect

  • breakfast
  • asian

Other options in Terminal 5

All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.

Sources

Official Travel Resources

1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.

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