serbian burek is amazing... and don't bother buying it in Bulgaria tho... basically if it's popular in serbia, it's chinese restaurant style fake serbian
i seem to recall it was quite good in slovenia too
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Interesting , I had no idea it’s popular in Eastern Europe. Having a Borek( basically a Turkish dish) in Chinese restaurant in Serbia would be quite an experience.
no, my comparison to chinese restaurant has to do with the fact that chinese restaurants make entirely different food, full of sugar and wheat starch and lacking most of the key spices, galangal notably, i mean, "sweet and sour chicken" is not an actual chinese dish served by chinese to chinese in china, or at their homes, it's like chicken mcnuggets drowned in lemon sauce made with way too much sugar
the comparison is just about how serbs seem to serve up "srubski skara" in bulgaria, it's heinously bad and fake, like what a totally ignorant, nationalist bulgarian would say is serbian, which is totally wrong
bulgarians are awful with beef, they don't believe in letting cattle mature until they taste like proper beef, they substitute pork everywhere, it's nothing like burek when you get burek in bulgaria, and don't get me wrong, i love bulgaria, but what bulgarians have in the supermarkets and low star restaurants is poison
also, i've been in turkey twice and the istanbul airport is so bad, i mean, absolutely awful facility, and spent a night waiting to catch a bus back after missing a connecting flight and ending up going via Sofia which was much more pleasant (using bulgaria's excellent train network of course), and i haven't actually eaten any turkish turkish borek, really it is supposed to be spelt with an umlaut over O which everyone in the rest of the world outside china can't pronounce (maybe hungarians understand this weird vowel, the germans maybe too)
anyway, just sayin... you can't go wrong with burek in serbia, either belgrade or novi sad, but the real king of serbian food is found in the south near the border of Bosnia, a little town called Uzice, the "Komplet Lepinja" is the ultimate hangover cure and superfood, made out of a round bun filled with egg and spiced with the residue of frying beef/lamb meat and i forget what else... when you eat this thing, you feel like superman all day, but it's hard to make it right like they do in Uzice and i wouldn't recommend bothering to try it anywhere outside of southern serbia
I've tried the Turkish one while living in Berlin. I was hooked to Borek and Simit back then.
i didn't know simit was the name of a dish... interesting... in Bulgaria one of the best mass market bread brands is called Simit, they they sell "cob" loaves mostly over there, and their wholemeal one is so good toasted and slathered in butter (which is usually german, curse the damn bulgarian food market)