New York is no longer a factory town, yet TMI Food Group decided it was the perfect place for its new noodle plant. STEPHANIE HOO and JENNI SOHN report in this asap video.
A dumpling grows in Brooklyn.
At the Tang brothers' brand-new noodle factory in Brooklyn, N.Y., rows and rows of perfectly formed dumplings stream off massive conveyor belts at a rate of 44,000 an hour, destined for kitchens up and down the East Coast.
It's a state-of-the-art facility, but also a throwback in some ways as New York -- once a manufacturing powerhouse -- is rapidly ceasing to be a place where things are made.
But even with the city's high wage, insurance and transportation costs, Terry Tang says the $4 million spent to build the plant was worth it. New York has ample labor and is near his top customers, says Tang, whose company is called TMI Food Group.
Plus, there's a cosmopolitan feeling here that you can't get anywhere else, he adds. "It's a city of the whole world."
In this asap video report, STEPHANIE HOO and JENNI SOHN tour the factory to consider the ways the city is changing and what remains the same.
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See the video here.
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asap business writer Stephanie Hoo and designer Jenni Sohn are based in New York.
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