Palembang pempek: bright orange-yellow fried fish-cake served with a generous pool of dark reddish-brown cuko sauce, cucumber slices, on a chipped plate at a Palembang warung
Palembang pempek: bright orange-yellow fried fish-cake served with a generous pool of dark reddish-brown cuko sauce, cucumber slices, on a chipped plate at a Palembang warungAI illustration - MiniMax image-01 - 2026-10-17AI-generated
Indonesia

Pempek

巨港鱼饼以绞碎的鲭鱼或其他白肉鱼混合木薯粉制成,捏成长条或球状,煮熟后切片再油炸,配甜酸辛辣的cuko酱食用。

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Indonesia
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Indonesian cuisine
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Preparation

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Sources

  1. 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.

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Last updated 2026-10-26