American expat seeks to promote Chinese culture through cooking shows

Chopping pork meat, hollowing out green peppers, and then stuffing the meat into them, Adrien Brill was learning to make a Chinese delicacy at a local household in a small village in east China's Anhui Province.

The whole process was filmed as well. Brill, an American expat living in Huangshan City of Anhui, was making yet another culinary video to cater to the tastes of his 100,000 followers on the short-video platform Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

"I started making short videos on Douyin last September. I make all kinds of delicacies, including Chinese and Western delicacies. I think it's meaningful because this gives me an opportunity to share my cultural experiences and learn about the cultural experiences of others," said the 32-year-old.

In 2014, Brill met his then-girlfriend Qiu Tong in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, when he was learning Chinese at Sichuan University. He followed Qiu to her hometown of Huangshan after graduation, and they got married in 2019.