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<p>[CFWK] Create dish page (Infobox + Commons)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{#seo:<br /> |title=Fortune Cookie - Chinese Food Wiki<br /> |keywords=Fortune Cookie,幸运饼干,幸運餅乾,Chinese-American,fortune cookies<br /> |description=Fortune Cookie is a crisp folded cookie with a paper fortune, strongly associated with Chinese-American restaurants but not a traditional Chinese dessert; origin claims are disputed.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> {{Infobox chinese food<br /> | image = Fortune Cookie.jpg<br /> | caption = Fortune Cookie<br /> | alternate_name = Fortune Cookies; Chinese fortune cookie; American fortune cookie<br /> | pinyin = Xìng yùn bǐng gān<br /> | type = Folded crisp cookie with paper message<br /> | course = Dessert / end-of-meal novelty (diaspora Chinese restaurants)<br /> | country = United States (diaspora Chinese restaurants); not traditional China<br /> | region = United States and other diaspora Chinese restaurants; not a traditional mainland Chinese dessert<br /> | other = Chinese-American restaurant cookie — diaspora origin; Japanese-American and Chinese-American inventorship claims are disputed<br /> }}<br /> <br /> '''Fortune Cookie''' (Simplified Chinese: 幸运饼干; Traditional Chinese: 幸運餅乾; also fortune cookies) is a thin, crisp, folded wafer cookie that conceals a paper slip with an aphorism, prophecy, lucky numbers, or bilingual phrase. It is strongly associated with '''Chinese-American''' (and other diaspora) restaurant desserts, but it is '''not''' a traditional mainland Chinese pastry. Popular origin stories compete among early-20th-century California Japanese-American and Chinese-American bakers and tea gardens (including San Francisco and Los Angeles claims); researchers also link the form to Japanese ''tsujiura senbei'' fortune crackers. Soft mock-court or single-inventor headlines do not settle the dispute—treat exclusive inventorship as contested folklore. After World War II, Chinese-American manufacturers widely popularized the cookie in Chinese restaurants.&lt;ref name=&quot;wp&quot;&gt;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie Source]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == Characteristics ==<br /> <br /> Pale folded wafer; vanilla-sesame sweetness; brittle snap; paper fortune inside.<br /> <br /> == Ingredients (overview) ==<br /> <br /> Wheat flour, sugar, vanilla, oil (often sesame oil in classic U.S. formulas); paper fortune. Overview only.<br /> <br /> == History and culture ==<br /> <br /> Diaspora California confection with disputed Japanese-American and Chinese-American claims and Japanese cracker antecedents; became a stereotype end-of-meal item in North American Chinese restaurants. Not found as a traditional dessert in historical Chinese regional cuisines. See [[Egg Foo Young]], [[General Tso's Chicken]], and [[Orange Chicken]] for other diaspora-famous Chinese-American menu categories.<br /> <br /> == Serving and variations ==<br /> <br /> Complimentary or bill-end dessert in diaspora Chinese restaurants. See [[Egg Foo Young]] and [[General Tso's Chicken]].<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Egg Foo Young]]<br /> * [[General Tso's Chicken]]<br /> * [[Orange Chicken]]<br /> * [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{Reflist}}</div>

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