Uuuuuuu, I love this question! Is Romania part of the Balkans? Look at the image below and tell me where this is from! If you don’t know, let me give you some context.
But there are multiple iterations in the Balkan area (in Bucharest, people eat mici/mititei with fries, but the rest of the country eats with bread):
You can see how similar this area is in terms of food. Most likely, the mici came from the Turkish kebab, but we do love not giving credit to the Ottoman Empire.
According to dictionary.com Balkans means:
“the countries in the Balkan Peninsula: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and the European part of Turkey.”
