Command-r boot oddity

Hey Folks,
Im just about to install a second SSD in my mini and testing a few of my software options for re-installing OSX after creating a RAID. My problem is that when I hold command-r to boot into recovery the entire software language is Chinese characters!?!?!?!?! Which, unfortunately, I don't read.
Is there a way to change this language to English so I can navigate the menus to perform back-ups etc.
This may or may not be releveant but my Mac was a custom build shipped to me from China.
Thanks,
Kyle

To see if there is atleast a Recovery HD partition
execute the following command in terminal:
diskutil list
If the Recovery HD is present, it should list something
like this (the underlined one):
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Server HD               249.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Mountain Lion           249.5 GB   disk0s4
(I don't actually have Mountain Lion Installed, just a partition
set up for it when it is released)
If it does, try booting with the option key held down and
see if it shows up as a selection.

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