Empek-Empek

History Foods Empek-Empek Palembang

 Pempek or Empek-empek Palembang is a typical food made from fish and sago. Actually it is difficult to say that the center is the Palembang pempek is because in almost all areas in South Sumatra produce it.

Presentation pempek palembang black sauce accompanied by brownish called vinegar or cuko (in Palembang). Cuko made from boiled water, then add brown sugar, cayenne pepper mashed, garlic, and salt. Cuko is eating pempek loyal friend, made spicy to increase appetite. There is also a sweet cuko for those who do not like spicy.

History Foods Empek Palembang
Sejarah Makanan Khas Empek Palembang

Type pempek Palembang is the "pepperoni pizzas" is a chicken egg wrapped in dough for pizza and fried in hot oil. There are others such as pempek lenjer, pempek round (or known as "ada'an"), pempek fish skin, pempek pistel (contents boiled papaya slices seasoned), pempek te small LUR, and pempek curly.

Pempek can be found easily throughout the city of Palembang. Some are sold in restaurants, there are in the cart, and there is also a bear. Also every school cafeteria must be selling pempek.Tahun 1980s, the seller can shoulder pempek 1 pempek basket full while walking around the city of Palembang peddling food !. Pempek now there are two types of Parempek mix between Pare and pempek.

Historically, there have been pempek Palembang in Palembang since the influx of Chinese immigrants to Palembang, which is around the 16th century, when Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II ruled in Palembang Darussalam Sultanate. Empek name-empek or pempek believed to come from the appellation "musty", the term for the old man of Chinese descent.

Based on folklore, around the year 1617 a 65-year-old musty living in the Assembly (banks of Musi River) are concerned witnessed abundant catch of fish in the river Musi. The catch is it has not been entirely put to good use, merely fried and dipindang. The musty then tried other treatment alternatives. He minced fish meat mixed with tapioca flour, so that the resulting new foods. The new food sold by the musty by cycling around the city. Therefore, the seller called "the pitch musty", then the food came to be known as empek-empek or pempek.

But this folklore should be studied further because of new cassava introduced the Portuguese to Indonesia in the 16th century addition velocipede (bicycle) was unknown in France and Germany in the 18th century Even so it may pempek Palembang is an adaptation of a Chinese food such as fish meatballs , kekian or ngohyang.

At first pempek palembang made from fish belida. However, with increasingly scarce and expensive price belida fish, the fish were replaced with cork fish that are cheaper, but the taste remains tasteful.

In further developments, used also other river fish species, such as fish putak, toman, and persuasion. Used also marine fish species such as mackerel, red snapper, machetes, yellow tail, and flatfish.

source:
http://pempekcekma.com

source from http://pandri-16.blogspot.co.id/2011/10/sejarah-makanan-khas-empek-palembang.html

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