Quote Originally Posted by Chile Pepper View Post
In Thai cooking, the top, thick layer of coconut milk is called cream, but that is different from cans of coconut cream. Coconut cream (in a can) is very, very sweet, like sweetened condensed milk, and is mostly used for cocktails and desserts. Coconut milk is unsweetened, and that is what is used for cooking (curries and such).
There must be different types. My canned coconut cream isn't really sweet at all and he can says it is just coconut meat and milk.