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Sundae

순대

Korean blood sausage

♨️ Served hot🙂 Not spicy🥬 Not vegetarian

A sausage of pig intestine stuffed with pork blood, glass noodles or sticky rice and vegetables. It has nothing to do with ice cream, and it's pronounced soon-deh.

What it is

  • Fillings vary by region. The common street version uses glass noodles and pork blood, while older styles use sticky rice, minced meat and vegetables.
  • It's sold steamed and sliced at markets and snack stalls, often with boiled offal such as liver and lung on the same plate.
  • Sundae-gukbap is a rice soup with sundae and pork offal. Sundae-baekban is a set of sundae, soup and rice.
  • Jeonju's pi-sundae is known for being dark, soft and rich, with plenty of blood.

How to eat it

  1. 1Dip slices in the seasoning served with it, which changes by region.
  2. 2In soup, season to taste with the salted shrimp or spicy paste on the table.

History

  • Sources differ. Some link it to the Goryeo period and Mongol influence, others point to 19th-century Joseon cookbooks, and one report says today's pig-intestine style took shape in the late 19th century.

Allergies and diet

Usually contains

pork
  • The filling contains pig's blood, and the casing is pig intestine.
  • Offal is often added. Ask for sundae only if you don't want it.
  • Salted shrimp on the table is shellfish.

Recipes differ between restaurants. If you have an allergy, always ask the staff before you order.

🗣️ Allergy card for the staff

Pick your allergy to see the sentence in Korean.

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Sources

We check every fact against at least two sources and write it in our own words. Last checked: 2026-10-31.