Who
could go to a Chinese restaurant, or order Chinese restaurant delivery (https://rotr.com/menu/Northern-California/San-Francisco/94111/352/Unicorn-Pan-Asian---SF/4481/), without expecting that
hard little cookie with the fortune inside to come along with it? But while
these traditional desserts are tasty (and entertaining!) many are under the
mistaken belief that fortune cookies originated in China. In fact, it was in
San Francisco that this iconic cookie was really born.
Before
anyone was thinking about including the hard cookie in with their Chinese food
delivery (https://rotr.com/menu/Northern-California/San-Francisco/94111/352/Siam-Saigon/5020/)orders, back when San
Francisco was first being built, Chinese workers were the ones doing most of
the building. Unfortunately, these Chinese people were held in isolation camps,
trying desperately to keep any remembrance of home that they could. Moon cakes
were one of those things. Moon cakes are a bit bigger and darker than fortune
cookies, but the concoction of flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil was the closest
they could get. Although it is these Chinese people that came up with the
concept, it wasn’t until the 1890s that they started being sold publicly.
That
was when Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park’s Japanese Tea Garden first
started selling them, and was the first person in the United States to do so.
While he didn’t offer office catering (https://rotr.com/) at the time, he did allow the San
Francisco bakery, Benkyodo, to start creating and selling them. Early in the 20th
century, the first fortune cookie machine for mass production was created by
Shuck Yee from Oakland, California. Before that time, every fortune cookie made
in the U.S. was made by hand.
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