If you are getting help from your operator then stick with him.. The Asia/ Fareast thread is solid with whingers and they are all plank drivers. The exams are computer based, or were, with multiple choice answers similar to the Australian exams. In my time some of the verbal's were with an Oz accent. The instrument questions are all fixed wing high level airways stuff. You will have to do an English Comprehension Test even if you are British. I failed mine at first because I didn't wait long enough for the computer to count down before I spoke but they reviewed it and gave me a pass.
I flew, on and off, for fifteen years in China and I had a ball.