The presentation was accompanied by a sauce pempek black brownish-called vinegar or cuko (Palembang language). 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 gravy pempek there is usually 9-13 ppm fluoride. a complement to the typical taste of this meal is a slice of fresh cucumber dice and yellow noodles.
Type pempek is the famous "pempek submarine", ie 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 content that has been spiced stew), pempek small eggs, and pempek curly.
Pempek be found very easily in the city of Palembang. Pempek sold everywhere in Palembang, one selling at the restaurant, there's a side of the road, and there is also a bear. Canteens in all schools / workplace / campus would anyone sell pempek. In the 1980s, sellers usually carry a basket pempek full pempek while walking around the city of Palembang hawking food. Pempek now there are two types of regular and Parempek Pempek, a mix between Pare and Pempek.
