{"id":4349,"date":"2024-09-14T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2024-09-14T17:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T17:48:05","slug":"fortune-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Both the readers of this blog probably remember a previous discussion about fortune cookies. Well, I was out with some friends a few days ago and the subject came up again. Actually, the discussion started with someone referring to \u201cAmerican Chinese\u201d food as opposed to \u201creal\u201d Chinese food.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably most \u201cAmerican Chinese\u201d dishes were inspired by their counterparts from China. But, due to different cultures, tastes, and other things, the American versions of Chinese foods are usually more meat-centered and less dependent on vegetables than dishes that originate in the far East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of popular dishes like General Tso\u2019s chicken, Sesame, chicken, Chinese chicken salad, chop suey, chow mien, crab rangoon, fried rice and Mongolian beef, to name a few, are items at Chinese restaurants that are essentially American derivatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there is the fortune cookie \u2014 indisputably American, even though it was probably created by a a Chinese immigrant in the United States.\u00a0<br>Fortune cookies became synonymous with Chinese restaurants in the United States. The cookies were folded by hand and the fortunes were inserted using chopsticks until 1964. <br>Today fortune cookies are everywhere \u2014 even in\u2026.. China. <br>Fortune cookies only became available in Asia because American tourists kept asking for them\u2026..<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the readers of this blog probably remember a previous discussion about fortune cookies. Well, I was out with some friends a few days ago and the subject came up again. Actually, the discussion started with someone referring to \u201cAmerican &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}