Luscious,
It sounds great!!! My family really misses potatoes and you can't eat mashed cauliflower every day!!! Does the Yam Bean look like potato? And where's local for you?

Have to find a local Asian market. There's a new one opening at Marrickville Metro but maybe there's one currently open closer to me in Leichhardt.

Great info re the Shirataki too, cmcole, we have to see if we can get that here in Australia as I see you're in Vancouver.
Cheers
Ozzie_girl