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Romania is a country of replicas:
However, the one big thing that Romania has contributed to the world is the fantasy story of Dracula.
Dracula was a Bram Stoker character loosely based on Vlad the Impaler from Transylvania in Romania, with the Bran Castle from here serving as inspiration for all the imagery around Dracula we are familiar with.
A lot of the character sketch of Dracula is based on the folklore around Vlad.
For example, his body is supposed to be in the Comana monastery of Romania (as per some official documentation) but some believe he's in Naples, Italy. Truth is, nobody has seen his real remains, leading to legends of his immortality that people of his time believed since they always spoke of him as a demon.
Vlad is also known to impale people (therefore the demon sobriquet), and this is truth and not folklore, leading to his moniker Vlad the Impaler. But some also believed he drank blood, sketching a key character trait of Dracula.
Dracula's fear of garlic stems from a culinary fascination of Romania though, and nothing to do with Vlad, since garlic sauce is served with every dish here.
This brings us to the food delights of Romania, which is basically all meat. Lamb and Pork and Beef, in Shanks and Knuckles and Napes and meatballs. They're all stunning, and they're all served with polenta and garlic sauce!
The meat here is actually so popular that even some chicken dishes are stuffed with ham, and some fish dishes laced with bacon.
The must have dishes are cabbage rolls (regular spring rolls, except instead of rice paper there is cabbage here), Shank stew (pork or lamb) and Lamb pastrami.
The most famous dessert here is the Pasnami, and the famous drink is Palinka (similar to Hungary) but the local beer is also pretty great. Ciuc and Ursus are the noticeable ones, but the local draught of Carul cu Bere was my favourite.
Below 3 restaurants were pretty much the most famous ones of Bucharest from all research, and links lead to detailed TripAdvisor restaurant reviews:
Hanului manuc
Linea Closer to the moon
Carul cu Bere
The other restaurants of Romania were:
Sonnenhof in Suceava
La Ceaun in Brasov
Romania is a country of replicas:
- Arcul de Triumf looks exactly like the Arc de Triomphe of Paris. The building itself, along with the roads around it, are almost an exact replica
- Vlad Casino is modelled on the Moscow parliament. Impressive looking building in Bucharest, but an intentionally copied design
- Sinaia is a town in Transylvania named after the biblical Mt Sinai of Egypt. Not a structural replica here, but a mnemonic one
- Brasov is a tourist town of Transylvania where the name of the city is etched on a mountain similar to Hollywood
However, the one big thing that Romania has contributed to the world is the fantasy story of Dracula.
Dracula was a Bram Stoker character loosely based on Vlad the Impaler from Transylvania in Romania, with the Bran Castle from here serving as inspiration for all the imagery around Dracula we are familiar with.
A lot of the character sketch of Dracula is based on the folklore around Vlad.
For example, his body is supposed to be in the Comana monastery of Romania (as per some official documentation) but some believe he's in Naples, Italy. Truth is, nobody has seen his real remains, leading to legends of his immortality that people of his time believed since they always spoke of him as a demon.
Vlad is also known to impale people (therefore the demon sobriquet), and this is truth and not folklore, leading to his moniker Vlad the Impaler. But some also believed he drank blood, sketching a key character trait of Dracula.
Dracula's fear of garlic stems from a culinary fascination of Romania though, and nothing to do with Vlad, since garlic sauce is served with every dish here.
This brings us to the food delights of Romania, which is basically all meat. Lamb and Pork and Beef, in Shanks and Knuckles and Napes and meatballs. They're all stunning, and they're all served with polenta and garlic sauce!
The meat here is actually so popular that even some chicken dishes are stuffed with ham, and some fish dishes laced with bacon.
The must have dishes are cabbage rolls (regular spring rolls, except instead of rice paper there is cabbage here), Shank stew (pork or lamb) and Lamb pastrami.
The most famous dessert here is the Pasnami, and the famous drink is Palinka (similar to Hungary) but the local beer is also pretty great. Ciuc and Ursus are the noticeable ones, but the local draught of Carul cu Bere was my favourite.
Below 3 restaurants were pretty much the most famous ones of Bucharest from all research, and links lead to detailed TripAdvisor restaurant reviews:
Hanului manuc
Linea Closer to the moon
Carul cu Bere
The other restaurants of Romania were:
Sonnenhof in Suceava
La Ceaun in Brasov
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