I had a Asian 196, worked flawlesly for the year I had it, i sold it and went for the 7753 version. If you get a 196 or 250, you will eventualy want the 7753 version, it is just that nice...so you might as well just get the 7753 version and bypass thwe asian versian, it is worth every penny.
I think the majority of the asian 7750's were daytona's...and those were modified all to hell...so I wouldnt be too worried about an asian 7750.