History of foods ''pempek'' or '' empek-empek''.

Historically,there have been ''pempek'' in Palembang in Indonesia since the entry of Chinese immigrants, since the Chinese people came to the city of Palembang in Indonesia, which is around the 16th century, when Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II ruling Palembang sultanate-Darussalam. Name ''pempek'' or ''empek-empek'' in believe comes from the term "apek" is the term for an old man of Chinese descent. Based on folklore, about the year 1617 a 65-year-old musty living in the Assembly or the banks of the Musi River in Palembang city, feeling sorry watching the abundant catches of fish in the River Musi. The catch is it has not been entirely put to good use, only limited in food made of fried fish and also often in a stew cooked with mixed herbs in particular that is called evaporation. moldy then try another treatment alternative. He minced fish meat mixed with tapioca flour,so as to produce a new food.
New food types that do not have the title in the selling by some people musty with biking around the city,because the seller on the call as ''apek'' and re-name to ''pek-apek'' then the food finally know called ''pempek'' or ''empek-empek''.

At first ''pempek'' made from ''Belida fish'',however,with increasingly scarce and expensive price ''Belida fish'' the fish are replaced with cork fish that are cheaper,but with a sense that still tasty. In further developments,in use also other types of river fish,too type of sea fish. So these foods can be made using various types of fish.