One of the fun things about ordering Chinese food is getting a fortune cookie with your meal and breaking it open to reveal a short, often mysterious prediction on a small slip of paper. While those ...
Do you believe in miracles? One New Jersey man certainly does now. Back in mid-April, an anonymous lottery player opened a fortune cookie after enjoying a meal from a Chinese restaurant, the New ...
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Where fortune cookies really come from

They are small, crispy, and packed with wisdom: fortune cookies. Whether served as a dessert in Asian restaurants, as a snack ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who says he based his Powerball entry on a fortune cookie he got from his granddaughter now has a fortune to celebrate. WRAL in Raleigh reports retired ...
The United States has always had questions about Chinese cuisine. Are low mein and chow mein the same thing? How does dim sum work? Is MSG actually a myth? The list of questions goes on and on, but ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Lexington woman won big after fortune cookie numbers inspired her to play Kentucky Lottery games online. Kathy Bailey and her family had just finished eating Chinese takeout when ...
Over the past two decades, Charles Li, the owner and chief executive of Chicago-based fortune-cookie factory Winfar Foods Inc., has drawn on Chinese proverbs and popular sayings to write thousands of ...
“Life is like a bush,” read the fortune accompanying my Chinese food delivery. “Sometimes it needs a little trim to see the path clearly.” The bush-trimming innuendo initially seemed unintentional – a ...