The truth within…fortune cookies!
Posted on : 13-10-2009 | By : diazan | In : around the world, australia, sydney
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Really, sometimes you should take your fortune cookie serious!
It’s not that you will always take the best fortune telling cookie for you, because the odds are too bad for this, but the truth within fortune cookies emerges as we try to understand them.
Me for example. Cooking with friends last week I had great fortune cookie: Don’t fear slow progress, just fear ‘no progress’
Well, I haven’t got a job yet, but…I now have a place to stay and I’m enjoying every day like it was my first. Not that I’m going out every day or spending thousands of dollars (Don’t take me wrong! I would really like to! Send me money!!), but I’m having a great time with friends.
Next time when you get your fortune cookie, open it, read it and think about it before you throw it away – if you throw it away at all, I keep some of them for a time…
What is your fortune cookie story?
Best regards,
Andrés
It will be more interessant! Every day we are learning more and more about cookies!! have a great day!!!:-)
Hi Nayeth!
Thank you for sharing history with us. I admit having heard part of the story before, but I prefer another version, albeit it cannot be proved:
“Way back in 13th and 14th Centuries, China was occupied by the Mongols. Chu Yuan Chang, a patriotic revolutionary of the time made plans for an uprising against the Mongols. In order to instruct all the Chinese of the date of the uprising, messages were hidden in ‘Moon Cakes’. Moon Cakes contained a ‘yolk’ of Lotus Paste which the Mongols did not appreciate so this yolk was replaced with rice paper messages. The uprising was successful and the Ming Dynasty was born.”
read all @ http://www.chinese-fortune-cookie.com/fortune-cookie-history.html
That was the same thing I read on the package of my fortune cookies…
Best regards,
Andrés
Dear son of the “ELGUAROESE” (ask your father). I´m Nayeth. First of all, sorry my english…. The famous Chinese cookies of the fortune… are not Chinese. It counts the history that the Japanese designer Makoto Hagiwara, in the city of San Francisco, was the creator of these famous cookies in 1909. But, also in 1918, David Jung, founder of the Chinese vermicelli company Hong Kong Noodle Company in the city of Los Angeles, confirmed he was inventor of this cookie. In order to clarify to this subject, the Court for the Historical Revision (Court of Historical Review) in 1983 it failed in favor of the city of San Francisco, but the certain is that until today the debate it is open. The first cakes of the fortune had Biblical proverbs or political lessons of Confucius. Later, began to include numbers of lottery, recommendations, jokes, and even absurd phrases. Most surprising, it’s we were in China two years ago, and we didn’t see the famous cookies. The certain is that here in Venezuela, Chinese “galletitas” aren´t popular, better I explain to you how to do cookies… by yourself, so you can place messages of Good luck!
A continuación, la receta: Mezclar 125 gr. harina con 40 gr. azúcar negra, 2 clavos de olor molidos, 1/4 cucharadita anís molido y un punto de sal. Añadir 1 cucharada de aceite y un huevo mientras trabajamos la masa hasta que se forme una bola. Repartir un poco de harina sobre una mesa, y con un rodillo extender la masa hasta obtener una placa fina y cuadrada. Con un cuchillo, cortar la placa en 9 cuadrados de igual tamaño, y colocar un papelito con alguna frase dentro de cada trozo. Recoger las esquinas de cada galleta, presionando ligeramente las puntas. Tener cuidado de no aplastar la parte del centro. Calentar el aceite y freir las galletas de la suerte hasta que estén doradas (unos 5 minutos). Escurrir bien. Chau
Every one makes his own fortune. Whit or wihout cookie. Do it!!!
Thank you for your comments!
Similar to you Ricardo, I put the fortune cookie somewhere I can see it, next to my bed! I can always have a look at it if I feel like I can’t make a step forward. Sometimes our steps are very slow, so it really looks like standing still..
I wonder if it’s likely that my next fortune cookie will tell me “you’ll make it!” – without having to ask Erin to put it in my fortune cookie
Erin, even if it is obvious I never thought that there is something like a fortune cookie bakery and that you can even bring your own luck into the cookies, wonderful idea!
Oh – and Extranjero, if you don’t read the story, do you eat it with the cookie? or do you throw it away?
Best regards,
Andrés
This is really great and inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
I actually have lots of fortune cookie stories, since I work at an actual fortune cookie bakery, but the ones like yours are my favorite. Where someone gets just what they need to inspire them at just the right moment.
We actually do personalized fortune cookies in flavors and colors, and people use them all the time to do proposals, or announce to family that they are pregnant. It’s really nice that something as simple as s fortune cookie can brighten peoples day and be part of their special memories and moments.
Have a great day!
Erin
Well, actually kind of true.
Sometimes fortune cookies can even help you to remember something you may forget from time to time.
That’s why I always keep this one piece of paper always in my desk:
“You’ll make it”.
That’s the one sentence that reminds me, whatever is happening, whoever is a pain in the neck, it is only temporary appearance, and I will overcome every difficulty.
And find the next fortune cookie
Cheers
Ricardo
I eat my cookie whithout reading the story !!!
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