Fortune Cookies Actually Originated in California! It is actually an American invention originating in California. ... In 1983, there was even a mock trial held in San Francisco's pseudo-legal Court of Historical Review to determine the origins of the fortune cookie.
The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo. David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, has made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918. San Francisco's Court of Historical Review attempted to settle the dispute in 1983.
While it is technically a dessert served primarily in Chinese restaurants, the fortune cookie has a layered meaning beyond other confectionary due to its distinctive shape and its hidden paper slip inscribed with a fortune. The cookie symbolizes luck, fate, soundbite Chinese wisdom, and the mysteries of the unknown.
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