[capt_noonie]

What do you think about Thai curries? More coconut milk, and not as heavy on the spices, but a lot of heavy on the spicy LOL. The old standby is beef panang. I have never made it, only had it at restaurants.

Japanese curries are very easily made from the box. There are so many brands, but I don't think you would like it. A lot more sweet, and Japanese curry came by way of India, then to the US, then back over to Japan, so it def doesn't have that "curry" taste. It's more like a sauce or gravy.

Sometimes if I make it at home, I will buy a box of Jap curry and mix in a can of coconut milk and add in my stuff, potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, peppers, chicken, etc. Half Thai, half Jap style. LOL