{"id":3013,"date":"2010-08-15T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T10:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/is-there-a-connection-between-the-dutch-and-the-japanese-fortune-cookies\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T11:08:26","slug":"is-there-a-connection-between-the-dutch-and-the-japanese-fortune-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/15\/is-there-a-connection-between-the-dutch-and-the-japanese-fortune-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a connection between the Dutch and the Japanese fortune cookies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/emzWG9xrK76uFm3q0BTAMHkDnvuF3JRrlr21myA9pJ42nDQuLGjKOQv9Cnyi\/IMG_19800205_004506.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/XjmlQorvcNARahg6UuMBjpNG6GG8RE99SohNM4LpZUpdvMzblHJR6v9NZekI\/IMG_19800205_004506.jpg.scaled.500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalmuseum.sg\/\">National Museum of Singapore<\/a>, and spotted these Dutch &#8220;pancake grills&#8221; that carry an incredibly strong resemblance to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/historic-fortune-cookie-grills-donated-to-the-smithsonian\/\"> the Japanese kata that were used to make the original fortune cookies<\/a>. It made me wonder if there was a Dutch influence to the original fortune cookies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The cookies made here seemed to be flat (not curved into fortune cookie shape), though very ornate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/tOkbxEAx3bc8YxlADwwC2GK2UC8R4AqO4PQ6yXvzpzfqluKs9drgyXopqAFa\/IMG_19800205_004529.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/qHY0yMCULdZ8RM4PuMgZFL5JXj8VjJT5suRj9g7WUhJVSZNLBaQAmr5yy0WL\/IMG_19800205_004529.jpg.scaled.500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was part of a larger display about all the cakes, cookies and confectionaries that were available in Singapore once upon a time in an ongoing food exhibit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/l3rGq3fa8SYzGdG9uMy8qXw5A0cuGhZezdPQk97wcANjBiYsioh2KOXd5dmr\/IMG_19800205_004548.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/fortunecookiechronicles\/OIa6ZH3OM9miw5YtaxYfnBDgfzHZ9Hps4ePOnbxXrs7NAN7hVDzL2lNoAlfE\/IMG_19800205_004548.jpg.scaled.500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lest you think the connection is a bit nutty, you should remember that\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kikkoman.com\/foodforum\/thejapanesetablebackissues\/06.shtml\">tempura came to Japan via Portugal<\/a>, the missionaries, in the 1500s or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the National Museum of Singapore, and spotted these Dutch &#8220;pancake grills&#8221; that carry an incredibly strong resemblance to the Japanese kata that were used to make the original fortune cookies. It made me wonder if there was a Dutch influence to the original fortune cookies. The cookies made here seemed to be [&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-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-MB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","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=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}