Ba-Le Sandwich Shop

I've eaten at many Vietnamese restaurants, but this is my first time trying this one, and it's truly disappointing. The prices are not cheap, but the portions are very small. There's only a tiny bit of soup, and the taste is also very bad. I took two servings home to heat up, but there was no extra soup at all. The first and last time

Small sandwich shop in the heart of this shopping center next to times supermarket and Teishoku. Had a smell when walking that they have seemed to address. They have great customer service and speak to you promptly for picking up orders.

This is one of the nostalgic places for me because I always loved getting a banh mi from the Ba Le at the old Ala Moana Sears food court. I came here twice thinking the second time would be better. Got lemongrass chicken banh mi. The food is tasteless. Mostly I can just taste the pickles. Veggies didn’t seem fresh. Also, they charge a surcharge for paying with card (who does that nowadays). Now I usually go to a place on Liliha St. They’re always busy and the meat is actually really good.

The customer service here was phenomenal. The lady was so nice and helpful. I wanted so badly to like the food. I ordered the BBQ pork and egg roll plate, 2 tapioca cups, a Vietnamese coffee and I also bought my roommate the combination plate. My roommate said it wasn’t good and I couldn’t eat any of it either. The coffee didn’t taste like usual Vietnamese coffee. Overall the whole thing was a wash which sucked because it cost far more than other Vietnamese places on the island.

$15 Shrimp Fried rice, not even half the plate is filled. Not only dat w/ only 6 shrimp inside too? What a deal eh?!

Ordered a lemongrass chicken sandwich and a regular chicken sandwich and it was terrible! No taste, just the vinegar taste from the pickled vegetables. All the other Bale I’ve been to are great, same taste. I’ll never buy food here again, sorry.

Stopped by looking for some vegetarian food and found this place. I had tofu fried rice which was simple: rice, egg peas and tofu. The rice was fluffy, with some of the grains crunchy fried. It was piping hot and delicious. My husband had a pastrami sandwich and said it was very tasty and the bread perfect. Staff also lovely.

I spent a lot of money here and the food doesn’t taste good. Spring rolls aren’t fresh. Bbq pork banh mi doesn’t taste like it has bbq pork in it. Beef stir fry is very bland. $71 for this isn’t worth it at all. Their site says the banh mi is $8.95 but it’s $11.95. At least make it good if you’re charging these prices.