{"id":1093,"date":"2008-08-26T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T00:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2008-08-27T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T12:50:33","slug":"a-chinese-entrepreneur-introduce-fortune-cookies-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/26\/a-chinese-entrepreneur-introduce-fortune-cookies-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese entrepreneur introduces Fortune Cookies to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny to see the the way that people in China react to fortune cookies &#8212; with a mixture of confusion and amusement. As part of research for my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\">The Fortune Cookie Chronicles<\/a>, I went around China handing out fortune cookies to random people (my bellhop, people on the street, vendors) and recorded their reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Often times, they would put the cookies in their mouth, and then be surprised when they found a piece of paper either in their mouth or in a cookie.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune cookies are <em>not<\/em> intuitive. This was confirmed when I was in Beijing and discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/27\/dining\/27fortune.htm\">a woman named Nana Shi who was making fortune cookies in China<\/a>. But she too put instructions on the red wrapper telling people to break the cookie before eating them because they were necessary.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1098\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/howtoopenafortunecookie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1098\" title=\"howtoopenafortunecookie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/howtoopenafortunecookie-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"How to Open A Fortune Cookie\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to Open A Fortune Cookie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Otherwise, this is what happens:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bp4IGgQoVQE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Americans find high emotional attachment to the slips inside their cookies, looking to them for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/11\/nyregion\/11fortune.html\">winning lottery numbers<\/a> and becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/08\/business\/smallbusiness\/08fortune.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">upset when the fortunes inside are unfortunate<\/a>. The Chinese, on the other hand, would often tell me after trying the curved vanilla-flavored wafers, &#8220;Americans are so strange, why are they putting pieces of paper in their cookies?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny to see the the way that people in China react to fortune cookies &#8212; with a mixture of confusion and amusement. As part of research for my book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, I went around China handing out fortune cookies to random people (my bellhop, people on the street, vendors) and recorded their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-hD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}