Broil 2 minutes on each side. Blanch long beans in lightly salted boiling water, remove and place in ice water. Tie together at ends to form a lei. Mix vinaigrette ingredients in blender, adding oil slowly. Serve laulau on a smoldering monkeypod wood plank encircled by lei.
Plank flavors the laulau and completes cooking of the lei.
Drizzle with vinaigrette. Mushroom crepes, prawns and strawberries Romanoff are some prix-fixe lunch offerings at Alfred's at Century Center through Friday. Call 667-5117 on Maui. Call 923-2311, Ext. 5300. 3 p.m. Saturday, Hawaii Okinawan Center, 94-587 Ukee St., Waipio Gentry.