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The Mystery of the Fortune Cookies - Coggle Diagram
The Mystery of the Fortune Cookies
Fortune Cookies Today
Common in Chinese restaurants in America
Not served in China
3 billion made annually in the U.S.
Popular worldwide
Origin
Not Chinese
Originated in Japan
Found near Kyoto in the 1990s by researcher Yasuko Nakamachi
Fortune was folded on the outside of the cookie
Yasuko Nakamachi's Research
Sparked by curiosity
Researched for 6 years
Old documents and drawings
Interviews with bakers
Discovered
Cookies were once popular in Japan
Paper placed outside to avoid being eaten
Historical Evidence
Drawing from 1878
Showed Japanese man making similar cookies
Conflicts with American claim that fortune cookies were invented in California in the 1920s
Adoption in America
Japanese immigrants brought them to the U.S.
Chinese restaurants adopted the idea
Became a tradition in American-Chinese dining