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.