This is one of my favorite dishes. I think the cabbage makes it. It's quite versatile; you can add any steamed or grilled vegetable, meat, poultry or seafood you like. It's a great choice if you have to cook for both vegetarians and non vegetarians at the same time ... make the dish as is, add some steamed vegetables on top of the noodle before pouring on the sacue, grill some marinated meat, poultry, etc. on place that over the sauce for non-vegetarian servings. I very often make it with dried herbs if I don't have the fresh on-hand, and it's still wonderful. Since coconut milk usually comes in 15 ounce cans, I'll use the whole can and double all the other ingredients except the pasta and vegetables. Then I'll use the sauce on other things. You can even use it as a salad dressing. The time includes all the cooking, but if you decide to just make the sauce itself, that takes almost no work and very little time,less than 10 minutes. I got the recipe at a site called The Internet Chef.