{"id":4467,"date":"2024-04-08T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2024\/04\/08\/the-fortune-of-the-fortunes-cookies\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:38:42","slug":"the-fortune-of-the-fortunes-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2024\/04\/08\/the-fortune-of-the-fortunes-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"The fortune of the Fortune’s Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]Picture yourself in a Chinese restaurant.
\nYou’ve just stuffed yourself with egg rolls<\/em> and roast duck<\/em>.
\nThe waiter brings you the bill, along with a small delicious biscuit, so light you can indulge with it without feeling too guilty.<\/p>\n

Not before breaking it in half to read the message written on a small piece of paper.
\nA message which, in most cases, is an aphorism or a sort of prophecy (which may even apply to you… It all depends on the Forer Effect<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Now, that’s the fortune cookie<\/strong>, nowadays a must in Chinese restaurants almost all over the world.
\nAnd I say almost<\/em>, because it doesn’t exist in China<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yes, it is not a Chinese tradition<\/em>.
\nRather, it is a phenomenon that has developed and over time become a tradition of Chinese restaurants in the States, but China has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

How did it happen?<\/p>\n

There’s a big question mark here… and several theories.<\/p>\n

The most accepted of these is that fortune cookies are a Japanese tradition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With some variations: they were served in bakeries and not in restaurants; the message was stuck to the biscuit and not filled inside; and it wasn’t really a biscuit, but rather a sort of rice cracker, called senbei<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was first brought to America (in San Francisco, more precisely) by the manager of the Japanese Tea Garden<\/em><\/a>, Mr. Makoto Hagiwara, in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n

These messages (Tsujiura<\/em>, in Japanese) quickly became an attraction in Asian-style restaurants throughout California.<\/p>\n

Then the war came. The Japanese were confined to the infamous concentration camps.
\nAnd their cultural legacies suffered a sort of damnatio memoriae<\/em>.
\nFortune cookies were no longer Japanese. Better to make them Chinese.<\/p>\n

From here their popularity gradually grew until they became a phenomenon of Chinese restaurants around the world.
\nExcept in China<\/em>, of course.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]Picture yourself in a Chinese restaurant. You’ve just stuffed yourself with egg rolls and roast duck. The waiter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}