In 2018, he got a job in imports and exports in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu province, and he made a point of studying Mandarin. His language skills have come along in leaps and bounds. "When I first came here, I could only say 'hello' and 'thank you' in Chinese," he recalls.

During his free time, he began to make food videos that appealed to a large and appreciative audience.

"I love food, and there is so much gourmet food here, so I recorded the process of making it and tasting it myself," he says.

His account on short-video sharing platform Kuaishou has earned him more than 1.9 million followers.

The online popularity of his work attracted the attention of China Central Television, which invited him to join an agricultural documentary, Global Villager Vlog, in late 2018.

Adolf readily took up the offer and he made his first program in a rural area of Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang province. He was mesmerized by the life of the fishermen on the island and got to watch them prepare the seafood and then taste the dishes they made.