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  2. Feb 11, 2021 · One of the most oft-repeated origin stories of the American fortune cookie cites the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park as the first known U.S. restaurant to serve the...

  3. Oct 19, 2019 · Almost every Chinese restaurant ends a meal with a few fortune cookies, those crunchy, folded treats with a special message inside. But you may be surprised to know that the fortune cookie is not Chinese at all. In fact, modern-day fortune cookies first appeared in California in the early 1900s.

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  4. Nov 9, 2020 · Ever wonder how those little slips of paper make it inside the fortune cookies at your favorite Chinese restaurant? Or who came up with the idea to bake a fortune into a cookie in the first place? There’s some debate, since Makoto Hagiwara and David (Tsung) Jung both served fortune.

  5. Apr 21, 2018 · The history of fortune cookies is kind of mysterious. Their origin is unclear, but it’s known that – although we thought they come from China – they’re an American invention. Immigrant groups in California have popularized fortune cookies in the early 20th century.

  6. The exact origin of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century. They most likely originated from cookies made by Japanese immigrants to the United States in the late 19th or early 20th century.

  7. Jul 30, 2020 · A 107-ish calorie cookie that enlightens, illuminates and occasionally teaches those who crack it open a few words of Mandarin. But the first thing you should know about fortune cookies is they do not come from China. In fact, it wasn't even a Chinese person who first created the beloved confection.

  8. Jul 8, 2010 · In 1906, Suyeichi started Benkyodo, a Japanese confectionery store in San Francisco. The store supplied fortune cookies (Japanese fortune cookies are a regional delicacy and much larger than the ones we know) to Makoto Hagiwara, who ran the Japanese Tea Garden at the Golden Gate Park.

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