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id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Place of origin</th><td class="infobox-data country-name"><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Main ingredients</th><td class="infobox-data ingredient"><a href="/wiki/Flour" title="Flour">Flour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vanilla" title="Vanilla">vanilla</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Other information</th><td class="infobox-data">Unicode <a href="/wiki/Emoji" title="Emoji">emoji</a> 🥠</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;padding-top:0.25em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li> <span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/18px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/24px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fortune_cookies" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Fortune cookies">Media: Fortune cookie</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>fortune cookie</b> is a crisp and sugary <a href="/wiki/Cookie" title="Cookie">cookie</a> <a href="/wiki/Wafer" title="Wafer">wafer</a> made from <a href="/wiki/Flour" title="Flour">flour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vanilla" title="Vanilla">vanilla</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sesame_seed_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Sesame seed oil">sesame seed oil</a> with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", an <a href="/wiki/Aphorism" title="Aphorism">aphorism</a>, or a vague <a href="/wiki/Prophecy" title="Prophecy">prophecy</a>. The message inside may also include a <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a> phrase with translation and/or a list of lucky numbers used by some as <a href="/wiki/Lottery" title="Lottery">lottery</a> numbers. Fortune cookies are often served as a dessert in <a href="/wiki/American_Chinese_cuisine" title="American Chinese cuisine">Chinese restaurants in the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Chinese_cuisine" title="Canadian Chinese cuisine">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_Chinese_cuisine" title="Australian Chinese cuisine">Australia</a>, and other countries, but they are not Chinese in origin.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The exact origin of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century. They most likely originated from cookies made by <a href="/wiki/Japanese_people" title="Japanese people">Japanese</a> immigrants to the United States in the late 19th or early 20th century. The Japanese version did not have the Chinese lucky numbers and were eaten with <a href="/wiki/Tea" title="Tea">tea</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translations_of_the_name">Translations of the name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_cookie&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Translations of the name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is no single accepted Chinese name for the cookies, with a large variety of translations being used to describe them in the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese language</a>, all of which being more-or-less literal translations of the English "fortune cookie". Examples include: 幸运籤饼 <i>xìngyùn qiān bǐng</i> "good luck <a href="/wiki/Kau_cim" class="mw-redirect" title="Kau cim">lot</a> cookie", 籤语饼 <i>qiān yǔ bǐng</i> "<a href="/wiki/Kau_cim" class="mw-redirect" title="Kau cim">fortune words</a> cookie", 幸运饼 <i>xìngyùn bǐng</i> "good luck cookie", 幸运籤语饼 <i>xìngyùn qiān yǔ bǐng</i> "lucky <a href="/wiki/Kau_cim" class="mw-redirect" title="Kau cim">fortune words</a> cookie", 幸运甜饼 <i>xìngyùn tián bǐng</i> "good luck sweet cookie", 幸福饼干 <i>xìngfú bǐnggān</i> "good luck biscuit", or 占卜饼 <i>zhānbǔ bǐng</i> "divining cookie". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_cookie&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fortune_Cookie_1878.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Fortune_Cookie_1878.jpg/220px-Fortune_Cookie_1878.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Fortune_Cookie_1878.jpg/330px-Fortune_Cookie_1878.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Fortune_Cookie_1878.jpg/440px-Fortune_Cookie_1878.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1040" data-file-height="766" /></a><figcaption>Baking <i>Tsujiura Senbei</i>, or Japanese fortune cookies, in the Edo period (1603–1868), from a book written in 1878</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fortune_cookie_broken_20040628_223252_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Fortune_cookie_broken_20040628_223252_1.jpg/220px-Fortune_cookie_broken_20040628_223252_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Fortune_cookie_broken_20040628_223252_1.jpg/330px-Fortune_cookie_broken_20040628_223252_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Fortune_cookie_broken_20040628_223252_1.jpg/440px-Fortune_cookie_broken_20040628_223252_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>An opened fortune cookie</figcaption></figure> <p>As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern fortune cookie was made in <a href="/wiki/Kyoto,_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyoto, Japan">Kyoto, Japan</a>, and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called <a href="/wiki/Omikuji" class="mw-redirect" title="Omikuji">omikuji</a>. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker dough; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter. They contain a fortune; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion. This kind of cookie is called <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Tsujiura" title="Tsujiura">tsujiura</a> senbei</i></span><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">辻占煎餅</span></span>)</span> and is still sold in some regions of Japan, especially in <a href="/wiki/Kanazawa,_Ishikawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Kanazawa, Ishikawa">Kanazawa, Ishikawa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-solving_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solving-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also sold in the neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Fushimi_Inari-taisha" title="Fushimi Inari-taisha">Fushimi Inari-taisha</a> shrine in Kyoto.<sup id="cite_ref-reallyjapan_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reallyjapan-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Makoto_Hagiwara" title="Makoto Hagiwara">Makoto Hagiwara</a> of <a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park" title="Golden Gate Park">Golden Gate Park</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Japanese_tea_garden_at_Golden_Gate_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese tea garden at Golden Gate Park">Japanese Tea Garden</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> is reported to have been the first person in the U.S. to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo.<sup id="cite_ref-Nagata_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nagata-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ono_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ono-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Martin_2004_8_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Martin_2004_8-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David Jung, founder of the <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Noodle_Company" title="Hong Kong Noodle Company">Hong Kong Noodle Company</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-Brunner_2005_5_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brunner_2005_5-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> San Francisco's <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Historical_Review" title="Court of Historical Review">Court of Historical Review</a> attempted to settle the dispute in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a piece of evidence with a message reading, "S.F. Judge who rules for L.A. Not Very Smart Cookie". A federal judge of the Court of Historical Review, from San Francisco themselves, determined that the cookie originated with Hagiwara and the court ruled in favor of San Francisco. Subsequently, the city of Los Angeles condemned the decision.<sup id="cite_ref-Brunner_2005_5_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brunner_2005_5-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Seiichi Kito, the founder of Fugetsu-do of <a href="/wiki/Little_Tokyo,_Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California">Little Tokyo</a> in Los Angeles, also claims to have invented the cookie. Kito claims to have gotten the idea of putting a message in a cookie from <a href="/wiki/Omikuji" class="mw-redirect" title="Omikuji">Omikuji</a> (fortune slip) which are sold at temples and shrines in Japan. According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, before spreading.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Up to around <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, fortune cookies were known as "fortune tea cakes"—likely reflecting their origins in Japanese tea cakes.<sup id="cite_ref-solving_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solving-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fortune cookies moved from being a confection dominated by Japanese-Americans to one dominated by Chinese-Americans sometime around World War II. One theory for why this occurred is because of the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_American_internment" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese American internment">Japanese American internment</a> during World War II, which forcibly put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps, including those who had produced fortune cookies. This gave an opportunity for Chinese manufacturers.<sup id="cite_ref-solving_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solving-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg/220px-Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg/330px-Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg/440px-Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="345" /></a><figcaption>Unusual negative prediction found in a fortune cookie</figcaption></figure> <p>Fortune cookies before the early 20th century were all made by hand. Fortune cookies are made from a simple batter of sugar, flour, water, and eggs. When heated, the dough stays flexible, allowing it to be shaped. As it cools, the sugar crystallizes, creating a crisp, glossy cookie. Traditionally, bakers would bake 3-inch circles of dough, insert a fortune while still warm, and use chopsticks to fold the cookie into its iconic shape before it hardened.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>The fortune cookie industry changed dramatically after the fortune cookie machine was invented by Edward Louie in the late 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The machine allowed for mass production of fortune cookies which subsequently allowed the cookies to drop in price to become the novelty and courtesy dessert many Americans are familiar with after their meals at most Chinese restaurants today. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Manufacturers">Manufacturers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_cookie&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Manufacturers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fortune_cookie_factory.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Fortune_cookie_factory.jpg/220px-Fortune_cookie_factory.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Fortune_cookie_factory.jpg/330px-Fortune_cookie_factory.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Fortune_cookie_factory.jpg/440px-Fortune_cookie_factory.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="349" /></a><figcaption>Hot fortune cookies being folded around paper fortunes at Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory</figcaption></figure> <p>There are approximately 3 billion fortune cookies made each year globally, the majority of them consumed in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-solving_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solving-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest manufacturer of the cookies is <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wonton_Food,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wonton Food, Inc. (page does not exist)">Wonton Food, Inc.</a>, headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York. They make over 4.5 million fortune cookies per day. Other large manufacturers are <a href="/w/index.php?title=Baily_International&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Baily International (page does not exist)">Baily International</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Midwest" class="mw-redirect" title="Midwest">Midwest</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Peking_Noodle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peking Noodle (page does not exist)">Peking Noodle</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. There are other smaller, local manufacturers including <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsue_Chong_Co.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tsue Chong Co. (page does not exist)">Tsue Chong Co.</a> in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Keefer_Court_Food&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keefer Court Food (page does not exist)">Keefer Court Food</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunrise_Fortune_Cookie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sunrise Fortune Cookie (page does not exist)">Sunrise Fortune Cookie</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_Fortune_Cookie_Company" title="Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company">Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>. Many smaller companies will also sell custom fortunes. </p><p>Manufacturing processes vary, but they generally follow the same procedure. The ingredients (typically made with a base of <a href="/wiki/Flour" title="Flour">flour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vanilla" title="Vanilla">vanilla</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sesame_seed_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Sesame seed oil">sesame seed oil</a>) are mixed in a large tank and squirted onto fast moving trays. These function like a conveyor belt and are heated to cook the dough. Cookies are compressed with round hot plates to shape and cook them. The cookies bake for approximately one minute and are reshaped. They can be mechanically shaped or folded by hand. When automated, a machine folds the cookie into the correct orientation with the fortune inside. Cooled and hardened cookies are sealed in plastic wrappers, which are inspected before being shipped. Today, most cookies are produced in the United States with the biggest factory located in Brooklyn.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marketing">Marketing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_cookie&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marketing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The message inside may include a list of lucky numbers used by some as <a href="/wiki/Lottery" title="Lottery">lottery</a> numbers; since relatively few distinct messages are printed, in the recorded case where winning numbers happened to be printed, the lottery had an unexpectedly high number of winners sharing a prize.<sup id="cite_ref-snopes_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snopes-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Authorities briefly investigated Wonton Food in 2005, after 110 Powerball lottery players won about $19 million after using the "lucky numbers" on the back of fortunes.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fortune cookies are sometimes used for special marketing promotions. For example, the film <i><a href="/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda_3" title="Kung Fu Panda 3">Kung Fu Panda 3</a></i> was promoted by putting quotations from the protagonist of the film on fortune cookie slips.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1989, fortune cookies were reportedly imported into <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> and sold as "genuine American fortune cookies".<sup id="cite_ref-snopes2_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snopes2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wonton Food attempted to expand its fortune cookie business into China in 1992, but gave up after fortune cookies were considered "too American".<sup id="cite_ref-snopes2_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snopes2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nutrition">Nutrition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_cookie&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Nutrition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cookies from different manufacturers have different ingredients and nutritional content. One cookie typically contains around 80 to 130 kilojoules (20 to 30 kilocalories) of <a href="/wiki/Food_energy" title="Food energy">food energy</a> and 5–7 g of total carbohydrates. A cookie may have sugar varying from 0–3 g, between 2–8 mg of sodium, and may have significant (compared to their size) amounts of iron or protein. The small size means they have little overall nutritional value.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Around_the_world">Around the world</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_cookie&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Around the world"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fortune_english_francais.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Fortune_english_francais.jpg/220px-Fortune_english_francais.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Fortune_english_francais.jpg/330px-Fortune_english_francais.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Fortune_english_francais.jpg/440px-Fortune_english_francais.jpg 2x" data-file-width="983" data-file-height="1115" /></a><figcaption>The fortunes in Canadian fortune cookies are generally written in English and French.</figcaption></figure> <p>Fortune cookies, while largely an American item, have been served in Chinese restaurants in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-solving_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solving-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Peru, they are served in <i><a href="/wiki/Chifa" title="Chifa">chifas</a></i>, Chinese-Peruvian fusion food restaurants.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>There are also multi-cultural versions of the fortune cookie. For instance, the Mexican version of the fortune cookie, called the "Lucky Taco", is a red taco-shaped cookie with a fortune inside.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same company that makes the Lucky Taco also makes a "Lucky Cannoli", inspired by Italian <a href="/wiki/Cannoli" title="Cannoli">cannolis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fortune_cookie&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output 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