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Asian Prince
Asian Prince is a parody website revolving around an Asian rock star named Wo-Hen Nankan searching for a girlfriend—"a Prince in search of a Princess". The website first appeared in 1999 and may be responsible for coining the phrase, "Am I not hot?". Throughout the website Wo-Hen brags about his long hair styled into a mullet which, as he puts it, is "soft, thick and easy to style", his moustache, expensive European suits, cars and money, as well as his ability to attract "chicks".
The images are of a real person - Tuan Anh, a Vietnamese glam rock singer from the late 1970s based in California. In fact, "Wo-Hen Nankan" means "I am very ugly" in Mandarin (我很难看). The original website was taken down, but multiple mirrors now exist. Originally, the site's pictures were hosted on a Vietnamese student's UMass
Amherst account, so it is likely that he was responsible for creating the website.
External links
- Tuan Anh
CD - Tuan Anh
Biography (Vietnamese)
- Six degrees of "Asian Prince"
- Real life Tuan Anh sighting
- Article on a Tuan Anh
performance in California
I prefer the version describing him as pathologically self-absorbed better...
An older version:
Asian Prince was one of the first internet phenomenon, revolving around an Asian rock star named Wo-Hen Nankan who apparently set up a website on Geocities to look for a girlfriend - a Prince in search of a Princess, as he put it. The website first appeared in 1999 and may be responsible for coining such popular internet phrases as Hello ladies... and Am I not hot . Throughout the website Wo-Hen brags about his long hair styled into a mullet which, as he puts it, is soft, thick and easy to style, his moustache, expensive European suits, cars and money, as well as his ability to attract chicks. As a result it became (and still is) a magnet for flames on the guestbook.
The website is actually a hoax, and contrary to popular belief, the images are of a real person - Tuan Anh, a Vietnam glam rock singer from the late 1970s based in California. In fact, Wo-Hen Nankan means I am very ugly in Mandarin (linguistics). The original website was taken down, but multiple mirrors now exist. Originally, the site s pictures were hosted on a Vietnamese student s UMass Amherst account, so it is likely that he was responsible for creating the website.
=External links=
# [http://www.thenoel.org/asianprince Asian Prince Website (mirror)]
# [http://www.geocities.com/asianprince_213 Asian Prince Website (outdated mirror)]
# [http://www.xanga.com/AsianPrince213 Asian Prince s Xanga diary]
# [http://www.friendster.com/user.phpuid=921657 Wo-hen Nankan on Friendster]
# [http://www.rangdong.com/scripts/showalbumdetail.phpalbumID=CD18389 Tuan Anh CD]
# [http://music.vnunited.com/viet_singer_bio/index.phploi=139 Tuan Anh Biography] (Vietnamese)
# [http://www.jhvu.com/month=6&year=2003 Six degrees of Asian Prince ]
# [http://www.bobofett.com/fameatfoxwoods.html Real life Tuan Anh sighting]
# [http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/00/08/music-nguyen.php Article on a Tuan Anh performance in California]
