Vietnamese beauty: Tran Nu Yên-Khê

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Yesterday my recent fascination with Vietnam made me watch the film Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) which I bought in Saigon for only 70 cents. I think the film was too pretentious and too slow, but the scenery and cinematography were absolutely great! And so were some of the women! Tran Nu Yên-Khê was the one that really made it all worth while for me.She was born in 1968 in Anxiuan, Vietnam and also starred in Cyclo and The Scent of the Green Papaya. Not very strange, as she is married to the director Anh Hung Tran 😉 I Will have to watch these two films!

Try a Google image search.

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Why do we love Asian women?

unknown model @ met-art.com

Some thoughts on my fascination with Asian women

Although I’ve loved the looks of Asian women all my life (I allready had a Korean girlfriend in junior-high school), I think my interest in the models really started with Marco’s Sung Hi Lee site (which I found in 1998). You can say Sung Hi Lee is the reason we now are working together on this site seven years later!I find that a lot of friends find my fascination with Asian women a bit strange. They even joke about it. I always correct them, and say I like the ‘exotic type’, with a preference Asian women. Some people think it’s narrow-minded and silly to just like one type. But hey, what about all the guys out there who just like blond babes with big boobs?! I don’t hear anybody about that. The only problem I can think of is that I do make life harder for myself, since exotic women are still a minority here in the country I live in. That’s why I thought Vietnam was heaven on earth. Female beauty was everywhere I looked!

But fortunately thanks to this site, I now know I am not the only one with this special interest, so I was wondering why you guys (&girls ;-)) think Asian women are so special? Personally I always find it hard to explain why I have this preference. Maybe together we can shed some light on this ‘obsession’, as one of my friends called it.

Vietnamese popstar: Ngô Thanh Vân

Ngo Thanh Van (Photography: Le Thanh Hai)

You will not find Norwegian-Vietnamese popstar Ngô Thanh Vân on Amazon.com, but you can read a review about her album ‘My Way’ at Visualgui.com. Be warned; it’s NOT very positive, but fun to read 😉 There is also a song there, so you can choose to listen for yourself. Her official websites seems to be down and so is another site that is supposed to be about her.

But here you can see a discography and I think you can also listen to her music somewhere, but since everything is in Vietnamese, I am not really sure… What I am sure of is, is that she is a beauty!

She started out as a fashion model, and still does modeling as I found her showing some new stuff in the Vietnam Airlines inflight magazine: Heritage Fashion edition, Aug-Sep 2005.This story at Vietnam News (March, 2004) speaks of her starring in Rouge, a 13-part MTV TV series that should have aired on MTV at the end of 2004. (Anyone knows if this happened?)

A Google image search will get you just a handfull of pictures, one kind of sexy, but poor quality.

If there are any fans out there, I will be happy to scan the remaining images from the magazine. Just say the word…

Ngo Thanh Van cd

Ngo Thanh Van (Photography: Le Thanh Hai)

Ngo Thanh Van (Photography: Le Thanh Hai)

Hong Kong fashion show

Hong Kong fashion show

On my way back from Vietnam to Amsterdam last week, I had a 9 hour stop-over in Hong Kong. I decided to take the train into the city. There I stumbled into a fashion show in the middle of a mall! I had no idea what the show was about, but there was a lot of press present and a pretty large crowd. From a distance I took some pictures of the Asian models. Check it out. I really think they have the ‘catwalk’ look 😉
Hong Kong fashion show

Hong Kong fashion show

Hong Kong fashion show

Hong Kong fashion show