Originally Posted by
tide
OP: to aid your quest, there are many curry varieties all over the world; pretty distinct differences between them.
As an OT side note, it's interesting to see what everyone's default is when they just see the word "curry". For whatever reason, I immediately thought of Japanese, and didn't realize I was way off base from what the OP had intended until I read the rest of the replies, which all appeared to be heading in an Indian direction.