OP, you ate empanada for the first time in your life ?
good luck with Dominican/carribean food, one of the worst (with few exceptions though, mostly if cooker is NOT Dominican) in the world...
btw decent Byrek in Shqipt is around 30-40 euro cents, I think that in Serbia around 60-70 ? Balkan food is like heaven compared to dominican one
btw2 I once got some very nasty bacteria in DR, had to take antibiotics first time in 20 years because of this shit. It was my stupid mistake, I felt so safe with food over there that I bought WHITE CHEESE that was stored without fridge