When Vahe Margaryan tried pho for the first time, it quite literally changed his life.
“I got goosebumps because it was so good,” Margaryan said. “It was so good that I was like, ‘Oh man, I need to find a better job to make money,’ because it was expensive.”
That fateful sip happened at the now-closed Number Nine restaurant on Fourth Street. Margaryan had recently moved to Long Beach from Armenia to take care of his grandfather, and a friend had invited him there for a meal…