I have mixed feelings when it comes to fortune cookies.First of all, to my Chinese friends, is a hard cookie really the best dessert you could come up with? I love Chinese food, but anytime I go to a Chinese buffet they only have weird desserts like cookies, pudding, pear slices, or jello. Come on! You guys invented paper, printing, the compass, gun powder, etc. I know you can do better than a dessert that makes you feel like you are eating a dog biscuit.
One the positive side, fortune cookies do have more mystique and mystery surrounding them than most other desserts. I'm sure no one takes time to reflect and contemplates future life choices when they eat a donut and I doubt eating an ice cream cone makes one ponder your destiny either.
By the time I finish eating delicious Chinese cuisine, I am loaded up on sodium and MSG and I could use some good old fashioned sugar to balance out my diet. Isn't that what yin and the yang is all about? So couldn't you offer some better dessert or at least put some frosting on the fortune cookie? Now that I think about it, I wouldn't have any problem pulling soggy fortune papers out of banana cream pie if you put that on the menu.
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They could put fortunes in those Chinese sugar donuts, but they might get soggy...
Maybe if they stuffed them with nutella?
I think the chinese food people have scamed us by not offering desert to us aside from those mesely fortune crackers. There has to be SOME kind of creame filled pastry covered with chocolate.
Only that delicious red sauce is anything close to dessert.
I think you have only revealed the tip of a very larger conspiracy.
We could teach them so much.
If you ever visit Chinatown in San Francisco, there is a hole-in-the-wall down Ross Alley where the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory is located. Two little old women run these itty-bitty waffle irons and fold the cookies by hand. For a buck you can take pictures and get free samples of warm cookies. Very cool
If the fortune was dye sublimation printed on some sort of thin silicon matrix, it would be heat and moisture resistant, as well as tasty just in case.
I love fortune cookies. It forces you to have something to talk about after dinner.
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