Dear Community, I'm swiss and regularly eating in asian takeaway (probably indian/thai) and indian restaurants. I now had (especially) 3 dishes which just blew my mind and I fail to reproduce them at home:

Curry 1, in the right of:
http://oi42.tinypic.com/68znd2.jpg
I'm not sure if this is indian or thai or another countries curry. Probably it was fish (Pangasius / iridescent shark) or chicken. It was just legendary. I have to say I did not feel tomatoes, it was pretty hot and very .strong/salty in it's taste. And I couldn't feel the typical thai tastes like lemon grass so I guess it's more indian. But what could it be? All these famous indian curries look different.

Dish 2, in the left of the picture above.
It's Okras/Ladyfingers (but I had it with kohlrabi, carrots, spinach and other vegetables already) in a..coconut sauce. I tried many recipes already. There are curryleaves and onions, I can't find anything else in it. So I tried:

-Heating oil, putting in some mustard seeds and curry leaves
-Frying onion slices for 1-2 minutes
-Adding ladyfingers, 1 min
-Adding a cup of coconutmilk
-Cooking for 5 mins
-Adding some turmeric and vinegar

It tastes ok, but definitely not as good as in the takeaway. What else can I try? How is this dish called?

Curry 3:, yellow fish curry in http://oi43.tinypic.com/tao48z.jpg
Definitely indian, it's also Pangasius / iridescent shark, I could identify mustard seeds and curry leaves, but that's it. I tried many recipes like goan fish curry or madras fish curry, but that's not it.

I found the ebook about how to cook BIR style curries and I will try them out this week, but as I said...on the pictures and videos they look much different from the curries I posted.

Thanks A LOT for any help and tipps!