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>I know that in some parts of Eastern Europe, "international" restaurants are still an unusual occurrence.
Not anymore, but of course we are a small country and there aren't so many international restaurants. Maybe in the Capital. I live in a 400k population city and we have only two Japanese restaurants for example.
>(I'm talking about places where even real pizza is relatively exotic.)
Nah, there's always been many pizzerias here, even 20 years ago.
We like spice here, like other countries people here "compete" of who can eat the most spicy thing. We got a lot of spicy peppers and things like ajvar (liutenitsa) which can get really spicy.
>Indian restaurant in Bulgaria sounds like quite a trip.
Yeah, the girl that brought me said they did the food justice, strange that there were no Indians working there. The Middle Eastern places here have middle eastern cooks, same with Greek restaurants, one my favorite restaurants is a Turkish place and it's all staffed by a family.
But it's true that most people here eat local cuisine and treat going to a international restaurant as a treat every once in a while.