san-nakji

{{Short description|Raw octopus dish in Korean cuisine}}

{{Italic title|reason=:Category:Korean words and phrases}}

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| name = San-nakji

| image = Korean.cuisine-Sannakji.hoe-01.jpg

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| country = Korea

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| national_cuisine = Korean cuisine

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| type = Hoe

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| main_ingredient = Long arm octopus

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| serving_size = 100 g

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{{Infobox Korean name

| title = Korean name

| hangul = {{lang|ko|산낙지}}

| hanja = none

| rr = san-nakji

| mr = san-nakchi

| koreanipa = {{IPA|ko|san.nak̚.t͈ɕi|}}

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File:Sannakji - Writhe.ogv

San-nakji ({{Korean|hangul=산낙지}}) is a variety of hoe (raw dish) made with long arm octopus (Octopus minor), a small octopus species called nakji in Korean and is sometimes translated into "baby octopus" due to its relatively small size compared to the giant octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini).{{Cite web |title=san-nakji |script-title=ko:산낙지 |url=https://stdict.korean.go.kr/search/searchView.do?word_no=534128&searchKeywordTo=3 |access-date=18 January 2025 |website=Standard Korean Language Dictionary |publisher=National Institute of Korean Language |language=ko}} The octopus is most commonly killed before being cut into small pieces and served, with the nerve activity in the octopus's tentacles making the pieces move posthumously on the plate while served.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/korean-restaurant-live-octopus-dish-animal-rights-activists-squirming-article-1.444306|title=Korean restaurant's live Octopus dish has animal rights activists squirming|last=Rosen|first=Daniel Edward|date=4 May 2010|work=New York Daily News|access-date=3 June 2017}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2017/05/123_65910.html|title=Clash of culture? Sannakji angers US animal activists|last=Han|first=Jane|date=14 May 2010|work=The Korea Times|access-date=4 June 2017}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/eating-a-live-octopus-wasnt-nearly-as-difficult-as-it-sounds/|title=Eating a Live Octopus Wasn't Nearly as Difficult As It Sounds|last=Compton|first=Natalie B.|date=17 June 2016|work=Munchies|access-date=4 June 2017|publisher=VICE}} The octopus's highly complex nervous system, with two-thirds of its neurons localised in the nerve cords of its arms, lets the octopus show a variety of reflex actions that persist even when they have no input from the brain.{{cite journal|year=2012|title=An Embodied View of Octopus Neurobiology|journal=Current Biology|volume=22|issue=20|pages=R887–R892|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.001|pmid=23098601|author=Hochner, B.|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last2=Sagiv-Zohar|first2=R.|last3=Aharonov|first3=R.|last4=Engel|first4=Y.|last5=Hochner|first5=B.|last6=Flash|first6=T.|year=2005|title=Dynamic model of the octopus arm. I. Biomechanics of the octopus reaching movement|journal=J. Neurophysiol.|volume=94|issue=2|pages=1443–58|doi=10.1152/jn.00684.2004|pmid=15829594|first1=Y.|last1=Yekutieli}} Less commonly, a live octopus is eaten whole.{{Cite web |title=Eating Live Octopus |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425034322/https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/skorea-liveoctopus-pp |archive-date=2014-04-25 |access-date=2018-01-13 |website=National Geographic}} The dish is sprinkled with sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2015/jan/30/noma-live-prawn-dish-japan-truth|title=The truth about Noma's live prawn dish|last=Warwick|first=Joe|date=30 January 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=3 June 2017}}