Pempek
Palembang fish cakes made from ground mackerel or other white fish mixed with tapioca flour, formed into logs or balls, boiled, sliced, and fried, served with a sweet-sour-spicy cuko sauce.
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Claim: Palembang fish cakes made from ground mackerel or other white fish mixed with tapioca flour, formed into logs or balls, boiled, sliced, and fried, served with a sweet-sour-spicy cuko sauce.
Wikipedia. (2026). Pempek. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pempek
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About this dish
Pempek, also called mpek-mpek or colloquially empek-empek, is a savoury Indonesian fishcake from Palembang, South Sumatra, made from fish and tapioca. The dish is served with a rich sweet-and-sour sauce called kuah cuka or kuah cuko, sometimes shortened to "cuko". Some Palembang residents also eat pempek with yellow noodles and diced cucumber to balance the vinegar's sourness, or add chilli powder to give the vinegar heat. The source identifies the regional name and the "cuko" dipping sauce as the main identifying features.