Dish · chinese
Fortune Cookie
A thin, crisp wafer folded around a paper fortune while still hot, lightly sweetened with vanilla.
Where it comes from
Fortune cookies did not originate in China; they trace to Japanese immigrant bakers in California in the early 1900s, though which baker made them first is disputed, and Chinese restaurants adopted them after Japanese Americans were interned during World War II.
What cooks argue about
Cooks argue over folding the wafer by hand while it is still hot enough to bend, since a wafer that cools even slightly cracks instead of folding.
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