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Whenever Americans go to Chinese restaurants, we expect fortune cookies to be brought out with our check.
Who created the fortune cookie? David Jung, founder of Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, claimed that he is the original inventor of the fortune cookie.
What are fortune cookies like in Japan? Traditional fortune cookies go by many different names: tsujiura senbei (“fortune crackers”), omikujisenbei (“written fortune crackers”), and suzusenbei (“bell crackers”)
In Japan, they aren’t nearly as popular as they are in America.
How did fortune cookies end up in Chinese restaurants? The big questions is…if fortune cookies are Japanese, why are they in Chinese restaurants?
This has been a hot debate since it has been hard to pinpoint the exact answer, but this is what we found.
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