The snack that's deliciously fishy
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The snack that's deliciously fishy
A brief history of Indonesian pempek
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Pempek
The basics
A fishcake, typically made with ground tenggiri (Spanish mackerel), sago flour, salt, and other spices. Often fried but sometimes grilled or cooked in other ways.
The place
South Sumatra, Indonesia
The story
Back in the sixteenth century, so the story goes, there was an old m…