| Knowing the future has always been a subject of | | | | Chinese restaurants and other restaurants in the |
| mystery. Humans have this unique tendency of | | | | United States of America and also in Canada. |
| knowing their future and then trying to go | | | | However, there is a lot of controversy with the |
| through various processes to make the impossible | | | | origination of the fortune cookie. The cities of Los |
| possible. Through ages, people have used various | | | | Angeles and San Francisco actually claim that they |
| methods to know their future. Things like | | | | invented the fortune cookie as a delicacy that |
| palmistry, astrology, numerology, tarot and | | | | helped in determining the future. Nevertheless, this |
| various other methods have been restored to | | | | debate still continues and no one has any clue |
| find out what future holds for someone. One of | | | | about who actually invented these fortune |
| the most interesting ways of knowing the future | | | | cookies. However, many say that David Jung, the |
| is actually the Chinese fortune cookie. Now what | | | | founder of Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los |
| is this whole thing called Chinese fortune cookie? | | | | Angeles had invented the Chinese fortune cookie |
| The fortune cookie is basically a very delicate and | | | | in 1918. This again continues with many other |
| crispy cookie that is made out of a mixture of | | | | names who are acclaimed of having invented the |
| sugar, flour, vanilla powder, butter and milk. This is | | | | fortune cookie. Even though the origination and |
| indeed an amazing mix but however, you must | | | | the invention of fortune cookies, no one can really |
| be thinking what a cookie has to do with the | | | | ignore the popularity that these mouth watering |
| predicting of the future. This tempting mixture | | | | and crispy cookies have gained. In fact, when the |
| has to be mixed in the appropriate proportion and | | | | authenticity of the predictions is concerned, many |
| needs to be baked. Now the baking needs to | | | | people do not take the prediction as true, just |
| done around a strip of paper that is the fortune. | | | | and authentic. However, this issue has been |
| This strip of the fortune contains words of | | | | considered as a barrier to the popularity of the |
| wisdom and also needs to have vague prophecies. | | | | Chinese fortune cookie. In fact, at times people |
| Basically, one can write anything on this strip of | | | | love getting a fortune cookie, as this not only tells |
| paper, but yes, the paper should try to predict | | | | them their future but at the same time people |
| something about the day. In fact, one can also | | | | love eating cookies. In fact, today the kind of |
| put in Chinese fortune proverbs on the piece of | | | | messages given inside the Chinese fortune cookie |
| the paper. Whenever, you go to any Chinese | | | | has changed but the procedure of preparing the |
| restaurant, you will see that at the end, they | | | | cookie remains the same and the end result is a |
| serve a cookie and this thing is known as the | | | | tempting cookie that might actually answer a |
| fortune cookie. While eating the cookie, you will | | | | question in your mind. Summary: the Chinese |
| first have to break the cookie into two pieces, | | | | fortune cookie is one of the most sweet and |
| then a strip of paper, determining your prediction | | | | tempting ways of getting to know about your |
| will come out, and then you can eat the cookie. | | | | future. |
| Serving this cookie is almost a trend in many | | | | |