Ba-Le Kona

Don’t let the fluorescent-lit dining room and polystyrene plates fool you: Ba-Le serves the sort of Vietnamese food that makes you want to pack it all up and move to Hanoi. Flavors are simple, refreshing and bright, from the green-papaya salad to traditional pho (noodle soup), and rice plates of spicy lemongrass chicken, tofu, beef or roast pork.