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  2. Feb 11, 2021 · Aaron Showalter/NY Daily News/Getty Images. Where did fortune cookies come from—and how did they become so ubiquitous? It’s customary in many restaurants for diners to receive a small treat with...

  3. 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.

  4. Oct 19, 2019 · So, where do fortune cookies come from? At this point, the weight of historical evidence seems to agree with a man interviewed for the movie, “The Killing of a Chinese Cookie”, who states, “The Japanese invented the fortune cookie, the Chinese advertised it, and the Americans tasted it.”

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  5. Jan 24, 2024 · In San Francisco, Makoto Hagiwara, the caretaker of the Japanese Tea Garden, is often credited with creating the cookie in its current form. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company, has his own claim to the cookie’s invention.

  6. Apr 8, 2024 · When Makoto Hagiwara first created his savory fortune crackers for the Japanese Tea Garden, he used a handheld mold called a kata, embossed with either his initials or the tea garden's logo. Eventually, Suyeichi Okamura developed a machine that could produce the cookies in larger quantities.

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  7. 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.

  8. Aug 23, 2021 · Appropriately enough, the fortune cookie was born in a place where people have often traveled in hopes of making a fortune: California, whose rich history includes the Gold Rush, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood, according to KQED.

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