Mihal Spasov Ashminov ( bg, Михал Спасов Ашминов; born March 27, 1982) is a Bulgarian

celebrity chef A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become a celebrity. Today, chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations, usually through the media of television and radio, or in printed publications. While television ...

working in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

. He is master chef of Bulgarian restaurant ''Zelen'' in

Yongin Yongin () is a city in the Seoul Capital Area, the largest in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. With a population over 1 million, the city has developed rapidly since the 21st century, recording the highest population growth of any city in the count ...

, and was one of the chefs participating in the variety show ''

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''.

Personal

Born to a Bulgarian father and a Polish mother in

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, the capital of Bulgaria, Ashminov worked at the Sheraton Hotel Balkan in Sofia before being transferred to a hotel in

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, where he opened his own restaurant and eventually got cast in ''

''.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

Zelen official facebook
* 1982 births Living people Bulgarian chefs Bulgarian television personalities Bulgarian expatriates in South Korea Bulgarian people of Polish descent {{chef-bio-stub