Cuko made from boiled water, then add brown sugar, shrimp, dried shrimp and crushed chili, garlic, and salt. To the indigenous population of Palembang, cuko than once made spicy to increase appetite. But as the influx of migrants from outside the island of Sumatra is now commonly found cuko with a sweet taste for those who do not like spicy. Cuko can protect teeth from caries (damage to enamel and dentin). Because in one liter of solution usually contained 9-13 gravy pempek ppm fluorine. a complement to the distinctive taste of this meal is a slice of fresh cucumber dice and yellow noodles.
Type pempek is the famous "pempek submarine", which is chicken wrapped in egg batter and fried in oil pempek heat. There are others such as pempek lenjer, pempek round (or known by the name "ada'an"), pempek fish skin, pempek pistel (young papaya slices contents that have been spiced stew), pempek small eggs, and pempek curly.
Pempek can be found easily throughout the city of Palembang. Some are sold in restaurants, there are in the cart, and also there is a bear. Also every school cafeteria would anyone sell pempek. In the 1980s, the seller usually carry a basket pempek full pempek while walking around the city of Palembang food hawking. Pempek now there are two types of regular and Parempek Pempek, a mix between Pare and Pempek. Wisata Culinary Indonesia Heaven on Earth.
