The Daily Leng Lui site caught my eye a while ago. Also focused on beautiful Asian women, the site stands out from the crowd due to their really well researched posts and habit of featuring lesser known models or smaller celebrities. We were lucky enough to catch the site’s creator Richard for a short interview recently. Check out after the jump for more.

A/S: How do you choose which models to feature at Daily Leng Lui?

Richard: I try not to choose the mainstream celebrities who don’t need the extra publicity. I usually pick the less popular but highly talented models who have potential to be successful in the future. Or others that might have an interesting story behind them.

A/S: If you had to choose your top 3 models which you’ve featured over the last almost 2 years, which would they be and why?

Richard: To be honest, this is a difficult choice, if only I could choose more than 3….One of them definitely has to be Yoyo Xu Xiangting from Taiwan, she been our most popular girl with our male readers throughout the years! The other two personal picks of mine would be Zhao Yihuan from China because I simply love girls with sweet smiley-eyes, and she’s pretty hot too! Finally Ava Liu Yukiu a singer from Hong Kong, she’s naturally pretty as well as being a very talented singer!

A/S: What inspired you start blogging about Asian women and what keeps you inspired?

Richard: “Daily Lenglui” started off in early 2010 as my personal collection of the type of girls that I like. I didn’t really expect it to grow to where it is today, from 0 to 1.29 million visitors. So, I continue doing what I do best in searching for the never-ending pretty girls and challenging myself to get even more readers.

A/S: Which other resources out there on the web do you rate for those into wanting their fix of Asian beauty (apart from AS of course :-)?

Richard: MOKO is definitely one of my favorites! It’s a social network site from China primary for models and photographers to share their portfolios. The rest would be FaceWall’s blog from Taiwan, and forums like netme.cc and soompi.com

A/S: One of the things that makes Daily Leng Lui stand out is the sheer amount of research that goes into many of the posts. How much effort goes into the average post?

Richard: It’s frustrating at times, trying to search in English to research Asian girls. With bits and pieces of photos and information here and there, it doesn’t feel complete. If you’re lucky, you might find a full collection of photos but readers don’t want to see every single picture of a model. Hence, I search every possible sources from Google to Baidu for their information and filter every single picture til I get only the best. For some, I even had to go through their blogs from Day 1 until their latest post just to make sure I don’t miss out anything. Usually hours of hard-work searching and compiling, but it does feel complete and satisfying once all the hard work is complete. It doesn’t end there either, at times, I do update their on-going latest photos and news!

A/S: What’s the future for Daily Leng Lui?

Richard: Seriously, I have no idea but I’ll keep doing what I do best now. Maybe it’ll somehow turn into MOKO or a talent/modeling agency one day. I definitely need some help in that, can’t be doing it alone.

A/S: Where does the name Daily Leng Lui come from; was the idea to do daily posts at some point?

Richard: Exactly, I originally wanted to post up one pretty girl every single day but it was too much work and I couldn’t cope up with it. I’d rather have quality posts over quantity. Also the word “lenglui” means pretty girl in Chinese Cantonese.

A/S: What do you do when not blogging about stunning Asian models?

Richard: Most of my time is dedicated to my own start-up company specializing in the IT and telecom. industry. Life of a start-up is like an emotional roller coaster, things seem great one moment and hopeless the next. I do believe persistent is the key to success and I apply it to all my blogs. My other blogs are: a food blog and an online boutique blog shop.

A/S: “Controversial question alert”. Which Asian countries do you think have the best looking women overall and why?

Richard: Overall, I like the fair skin women from Thailand, Vietnam and vicinity. There is something about their features, maybe it’s the mixture of half Chinese, ethnic Thai and Westerner.

A/S: You’ve recently passed your 200th post on DLL, how are you going to celebrate?

Richard: I’ll be looking for sponsorship to reward myself with a pretty Asian bunny girl that jumps out from the box!