Mix water with sugar, salt, stock, pepper and garlic

2. In a pan, without turning the heat - mix together no1 with the flour. This can be use with wooden ladle or spatula. When it's all mixed, smooth and turn like a batter. turn the stove to medium and continue stirring using wooden stick or spatula till all looks a bit like a sticky and doughy. This should take about 5 minutes. Turn the heat off.

Move the dough into a big bowl. Leave it for about 5 minutes, just till it warm. With spatula, start mixing the eggs one by one (really need to blends for each eggs).

When the dough mixed, start pouring half part of the tapioca, mixed well but slowly. And do the rest. Repeat. You can now make the dough into shape. Use tapioca flour in your hand if need it, as the dough can be a bit sticky. Make either long cylinder or a ball shape. Fyi: the cookie shape is NOT normal, but I like it as I prefer to have more crispy texture when fried (google pempek for more type or shape).

Boil lots of water in pan. This should be high heat, in mine its number 4. put a teaspoon of oil. Start putting the shape pempek into the pan, and wait till it float, this should take 5 minutes most. Dont overcrowd the pans. When it float, leave it there for Another 3 minutes or so.

Note: to keep in fridge, I usually used a bit of oil, just so it does not stick together, this is optional. If you want to freeze, simply put per portion in a plastic.