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Fortune cookie-related images from research from Jennifer 8. Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

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Greg Louie in Lotus Fortune Cookie Company in San Francisco

Steve Yang, fortune cookie fortune supplier

Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory in Ross Alley in San Francisco

Benkyodo bakery in San Francisco, home to early fortune cookies

Chinese making Fortune Cookie Albums

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Giant fortune cookies at Tao restaurant
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Hyotanyama Inari Shrine, origin of the tsujiura name in Japanese fortune cookies

Various senbei at Hougyokudou Bakery

Making Japanese Fortune Cookies in Hougyokudou Bakery

Japanese fortune cookies and their cousins

Takeshi Matsuhisa showing fortune cookie grills

Japanese and American fortune cookies side by side

Hougyokudou Bakery with the Masuhisa family

Peking Noodle Company in Los Angeles

"Fortune tea cakes" from Hong Kong Noodle Factory

Brazilian fortune cookies

1878 etching of Japanese fortune cookies

Italian fortune cookies from Hang Zhou Chinese restaurant

Wonton Food Factory Truck

Fushimi Inari Shrine Outside Kyoto

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dozyllama wrote on Apr 18

Fortune cookies must be an American "thing". I'm over in the UK and I have never ever seen them in our Chinese restaurants.

dozyllama wrote on Apr 18, edited on Apr 19

Do they really have a taste? I have always imagined them to be like plain filo pastry, just folded upon itself.

ilovemad wrote on Apr 19

dozyllama said

Do they really have a taste?

they're like lace cookies with a hint of orange

shearoc wrote on Apr 19

I know I am the only person who really loves fortune cookies! Every time we go out to a chinese restaurant I am the only one who really eats the fortune cookies!

10joules wrote on Apr 19

they are like kueh kapit made by a person who can't fold properly

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