| Although
it is commonly served at Chinese Restaurants, the
tradition of fortune cookie did not come from China. |
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There is a similar (but not the same) version of fortune
cookie in Japan, in which a piece of paper with fortune
(which can be fortune, misfortune or somewhere in
the middle) is placed in a Japanese-style cookie. |
| According
to Wikipedia,
number of people claimed to have introduced fortune
cookie: |
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Makoto
Hagiwara: Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea
Garden, San Francisco, 1890s or early 1900s |
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David
Jung: Hong Kong Noodle Company, Los Angeles,
1918 |
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Seiichi
Kito: Fugetsu-do of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles |
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