Workers assemble the ingredients for spicy beef and vegetable soup pouch at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
In an industrial area in northeast Salem, workers were busy turning slices of beef, chili powder, onions and other vegetables into soup. Operating out of Salem for years, Chang Tuh (which means “farmers market” in Korean) has been making pre-cooked meals like spicy beef and vegetable soup, bulgogi and other pre-cooked meals sold in Asian specialty markets. Chang Tuh is moving forward with a $17 million expansion that it hopes will get its products in front of more consumers.
-Jake Thomas
The Chang Tuh facility expansion on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
A worker uses a machine to slice up beef into pieces for the spicy beef and vegetable soup at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Josefa Diaz weighs out beef portions for the spicy beef and vegetable soup pouches at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
A vat of broth for the spicy beef and vegetable soup at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
A machine inserts the ingredients for spicy beef and vegetable soup into a pouch at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Workers assemble the ingredients for spicy beef and vegetable soup pouch at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Pouches holding soup that will be sold in Costco at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Soup pouches cool down after being pressure-cooked and sterilized at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
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