Mathieu en Tik zorgen ervoor dat u zich meteen Thuis voelt in Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand.
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Tulip House kenmerkt zich door het familiegevoel dat u voelt van zodra u binnenkomt tot wanneer u weggaat. Bent u in Thailand, Pattaya Jomtien, dan wilt u bij ons zijn en bent u van harte welkom.
Er is altijd wat te doen in Tulip House, lees hier de verhalen van de evenementen en kijk hier voor de agenda van de komende evenementen.
Vaak is het evenement volzet en moet Mathieu mensen teleurstellen. Bepreek tijdig voor het volgende evenement.
Uiteraard kunt u Hollandse gerechten en snacks krijgen. Haring, kroketten, bitterballen, fricandellen en meer.
Gelezen in Typisch Thailand 14 juli 2020
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Tulip House owner remains optimistic Pattaya will recover
Chaweewan “Tik Chawee” Phoothaworn, owner Pattaya’s popular Tulip House restaurant with her Dutch husband Mathieu Corporaal, says their guest house has only a few rooms occupied, the travel agency is closed and the restaurant is struggling.
Tik Chawee thought diversifying her businesses would keep her on firm financial footing for life. Then came the coronavirus.
Tik, whose proper name is Chaweewan Phoothaworn, owns Pattaya’s popular Tulip House restaurant with her Dutch husband Mathieu Corporaal. Together they also operate a guest house and travel agency. All three have been closed or severely impacted by Thailand’s Covid-19 economic shutdown.
“Tourism really peaked more than seven years ago,” she said from her newly reopened eatery on Jomtien Beach Road at Soi 9. Back then, she said, her businesses earned tens or hundreds of thousands of baht a day. Tourists and expats from the Netherlands and Sweden were 85 percent of her customers and she had nearly 300 regular customers.
Today the guest house has only a few rooms occupied, the travel agency is closed and the restaurant is struggling. It has reopened, but rules against restaurants selling alcohol, plus social distancing restrictions, has kept the customers away.
During the shutdown, she kept the kitchen open selling food via delivery apps, but their large commission plus the discounts she had to give on food left her with no profit. She had to reduce staff, but instead of laying off people she had them work in rotations so that everyone got at least a small paycheck every month.
Despite the adversity, Chaweewan remains optimistic. This, too, will pass, she believes and international tourists and many of her old customers will return … someday.
Until then, she’s opening the restaurant from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and selling clothes and other items online to bring in income until business recovers.