Beef massaman curry is actually my now ex wife’s favourite dish. I have cooked it many a time, usually employing a sachet of some sort from the local Chinese food emporium but said sachets are much better than a western supermarket equivalent which as you noted tends to the far too sweet. BTW Massaman is the Thai equivalent of Mussulman or Moslem. IOW they got curry courtesy of Arab traders who brought it from India.
Just like we call our numbering system Arabic numerals but they are in fact Indian numerals. We just named them after the messenger not the originator.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
