I posted this link in a comment on Kathleen’s Foreign and yet Familiar blog entry, but I think this article’s pretty cool so I decided to create a separate post for it too. The writer, Jennifer Lee, discusses how the beloved, ubiquitous and flavorless Chinese Fortune cookie actually has origins in Japan. Whenever I eat Chinese my meal feels incomplete without one, but maybe I should start eating them after I get some Japanese. Although, as Derrick Wong, a fortune cookie manufacturer, points out, “The Japanese may have invented the fortune cookie. But the Chinese people really explored the potential of the fortune cookie. It’s Chinese-American culture. It only happens here, not in China.”
