KEMARO ISLAND

          Kemaro Island, is located in the middle of  the Musi River Delta, located about 6 km from the Ampera Bridge. Kemaro island is located in the industrial area between Sriwijaya Fertilizer Plant and Pertamina Plaju and Sungai Gerong. Kemaro Island is a recreation area in the Musi River headliner. In this place there is a Chinese temple (temple Hok Tjing Rio). On the island there are also Kemaro Buddhist temples frequented by Buddhists to pray or to visit the tomb. There are also often held the Cap Go Meh every Chinese New Year. Kemaro name was taken because this island has never flood, although the Musi River overflowed. Behind the beauty of it, Palembang, South Sumatra, a tragic love story tucked Palembang princess, Siti Fatimah. On this island there is also said to be the tomb of the last resting place of the princess. According to local legend, in ancient times, Palembang is sent to a daughter married to a son of the king of China. The princess asked 9 jars of gold as dowry. To avoid the pirate gold urns are covered vegetable and when he saw the boy king opened it contained only vegetable jars are then banished to the river. Sense of disappointment and regret making the king's son decided to throw ourselves into the river and drowned. The princess had come to throw ourselves into the river and drowned. The princess was buried in the Kemaro Island and built a shrine to his memory . Many people come to this place to see the history of it that has combination between love and religion.

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PEMPEK

          Pempek or Empek empek is Palembang traditional food which is made of fish and flour. It's hard to say thag Palembang is a centre of pempek because almost all the areas here produce them.
          If we want to eat pempek Palembang, we will eat them with the sauce that we call as cuka or cuko in Palembang. Cuko is made of the boiling water, brown sugar, cayenne, garlic, and salt. If you don't like spicy, you can have pempek with sweet cuko.
          The most popular type of pempek is "Pempek Kapal Selam" is made of eggs, and the others are pempek lenjer, pempek bulat or "Ada'an", pempek kulit ikan, pempek pistel, pempek telur, and pempek keriting.
          We can find pempek easily in all over Palembang. We can find them in the restaurant, eat street, school canteen, and so on. In 1980, people carried their pempek on the shoulders to sell them by walking around Palembang.
          Based on the history, pempek has been in Palembang since the coming of Chinese man to Palembang. The name of "Empek" or "Apek" is convinced from "Apek" as the term for an old Chinese man who made pempek.
          Besides talking about the traditional food in each city, we also know some values that we can take when we want to do something, especially for us as an eastern, we know well about it. Just for example, don't forget to clean up our hands before eating, that's one of the cleanliness values that we know and it's a must for us to keep our body healthy. And another one, let's have a sit while eating. Especially for the girls. Because it's not good for us to have a meal while standing up.
          So, if you got a chance to come to Palembang, don't forget to taste this Palembang traditional food that can make the visitors who visit Palembang want to try this food more and more.