who knows a story behind the fortune cookie thanks in advance
please only related answers no stupid ones :D
2006-08-10 06:19:17 · 4 answers · asked by Alan 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
one tale is it was invented by a Japanese American thankful to get his job back.
Perhaps the most plausible story dates back to 1918 when, in Los Angeles, David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Co., invented the fortune cookie as a sweet treat and encouraging word for unemployed men who gathered on the streets. Some claim the cookie was more likely invented as a gimmick for Jung’s noodle business than as an icon of social concern.
One history of the fortune cookie claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles and founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company, invented the cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor he saw wandering near his shop, he created the cookie and passed them out free on the streets. Each cookie contained a strip of paper with an inspirational Bible scripture on it, written for Jung by a Presbyterian minister.
Another history claims that the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco by a Japanese immigrant named Makoto Hagiwara. Hagiwara was a gardener who designed the famous Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. An anti-Japanese mayor fired him from his job around the turn of the century, but later a new mayor reinstated him. Grateful to those who had stood by him during his period of hardship, Hagiwara created a cookie in 1914 that included a thank you note inside. He passed them out at the Japanese Tea Garden, and began serving them there regularly. In 1915, they were displayed at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, San Francisco's world fair.
2006-08-10 06:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello. -
"The fortune cookie is a thin, crisp cookie baked around a piece of paper with words of wisdom or prophecy. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers, (used by some as lottery numbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation."
"Fortune cookies are served almost exclusively in North American Chinese restaurants, and were not invented in China. Places that serve them call them "Genuine American Fortune Cookies". Authentic Chinese restaurants typically serve cold sweet mung bean or red bean porridge followed by chilled orange slices at the end of the meal."
2006-08-10 14:20:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really believe that much about the fortune cookies, but I like to see what they say! Sometimes it does have good wisdom in it! I love the idea of having Bible scriptures in them, that would be awesome!
2006-08-10 13:42:30 · answer #3 · answered by Lorla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chinese believe the fortune cookie is a modern Chinese American interpretation of the moon cake. Legend has it that moon cakes were used in the fourteenth century as a means of critical communication. In their efforts to stave off the Mongols, Chinese soldiers disguised as monks allegedly communicated strategies by stuffing messages into moon cakes. The concept of message-stuffed pastry has supposedly endured through ages.
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~weijial/forturncookie/origin.html
2006-08-10 15:46:29 · answer #4 · answered by Swirly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋