Bringing chefs from Asia is becoming more difficult, Asian restaurants fear decimation due to new rules

“It will soon be impossible or very difficult to have an expert chef from Thailand come here,” Paul van der Helm of BaiYok restaurant in Zwolle told NOS. He runs the restaurant together with his Thai wife. They employ six Thai chefs. One of them already worked in the Netherlands, the other five came over from Thailand. “The ministry says that a chef from the EU can learn this trade in six months, which is actually an insult to the craft.”