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With the Chinese New Year rapidly approaching, thoughts turn to colorful parades, fire crackers, spectacular fireworks exploding in the sky, and a plethora of food. What would a celebration be without those crunchy fortune cookies with the hidden messages?
No one knows for sure where fortune cookies first made their appearance. There are several schools of thought. Historically speaking, the first mention of secret messages hidden within a cookie occurred during the 13th and 14th centuries. China was occupied by the Mongols. In order to get word of the upcoming revolt, the patriotic revolutionary Chen Juan Chen disguised himself as a Taoist priest so that he might be able to enter walled cities which were occupied by the Mongols. He was able to move safely through these cities under the guise of a priest and thus, able to hand out moon cakes to other revolutionaries. It was said the Mongols did not care for the taste of lotus nut paste, an ingredient usually contained in moon cakes, The Chinese replaced the lotus nut paste yolk with secret messages, successfully alerting the revolutionaries of the uprising which would be the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.
Another Chinese custom involving cake rolls with messages is that when a baby is born, it is customary for the family to send out cake rolls containing a birth announcement.
An additional version of the origin of it involves the Chinese 49ers who laid down the railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains during the California Gold Rush. The Chinese workers had few pleasures but they did exchange, during the Moon Festival, biscuits containing happy messages in place of the traditional moon cakes. It has been suggested that in San Francisco, a cottage industry making fortune cookies sprung up after completion of the railroad and the Gold Rush.
The generally accepted version of the origin of it goes back to 1914 San Francisco. Japanese immigrant Machete Hagiwara, a landscape designer, developed the plans for the renowned Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. He was fired by San Francisco's anti-Japanese mayor around the turn of the 20th century, leaving him in financial distress until he was reinstated by a later mayor. There are two versions to the development of the fortune cookie. One version proposes Hagiwara created the cookies with a thank-you note inside as a gift of gratefulness to those who did not abandon him during his misfortune. Another version says he made the cookies as refreshment for the visitors strolling through the Japanese Tea Garden. In 1915, his cookies were on display at San Francisco's world fair, the Panama-Pacific Exhibition.
In the early 1900s, entrepreneurs proposed a plan to transform San Francisco's Chinatown from a poor slum area into a tourist destination. The city promoted decorations, parades, and architecture reminiscent of China. It is said the increased tourism led to the creation of fortune cookies so the visitors might have a dessert item. To this end, in the 1930s, a worker at San Francisco's Kay Heong Noodle Factory designed a plain flat cookie. While the flat cookie was still warm, it was folded around a slip of paper on which was written a prediction or some Chinese wisdom.
Still another version involves 1918 Los Angeles. It states that it was invented by Chinese immigrant David Jung, proprietor of the Hong Kong Noodle Company. Jung, worried about all the impoverished, unemployed men milling around the area near his business, passed out free cookies which contained uplifting verse, written for Jung by a Presbyterian minister.
Fortune cookies were traditionally made by hand using chopsticks but in 1964, Edward Louie of San Francisco's Lotus Fortune Cookie Company, designed a machine that automatically folded the dough and inserted the fortune.
Although they are served in Chinese restaurants throughout the world, they are almost unheard of in China. In the few places they are available in China, they are advertised as "Genuine American Fortune Cookies."
In 1983, in an attempt to finally ascertain the origins of them, there was a mock trial in San Francisco's pseudo-legal Court of Historical Review. San Francisco was declared the winner, with Los Angeles denouncing the decision.
Chinese, Japanese, or American? It does not matter - the cookies are delicious, no matter from whence they came.
See more hints, insights, and unusual facts about food and cooking at Food and Cooking Tips. Terry Kaufman is also Chief Editorial Writer for Niftygarden.com and Niftyhomebar.com.
©2008 Terry Kaufman.
Purchase Chinese Antiques, Bypass Modern Dragon Death Buys
It is a shock to first see the recent world color map of CO2, cancer causing coal ash particles in the air. Released from the Royal Netherlands Geographic Institute, the map shows red as most polluted, meaning dark skies at noon, through yellow to gray to light blue to dark blue. The shock is the huge red block of dark sky over east China, showing immediately the most polluted nation on earth. Those cancer fume clouds now reach our shores, and your once pristine walk on a Pacific coast beach now involves your breathing in China coal dust air. Some slow boat from China, it now moves like the wind, which it fills. Enough!
Around most of earth otherwise, dirty air is limited to dots of red, such as two small red dots in India, one in Canada, where the auto industry is. Portions of earth such as most of Canada, Australia and the Sahara are still dark blue, which means the skies are not cloudy all day. The report states that while America and Europe have improved their air quality greatly since the 1970's, much needs to be done. Most of the oil refinery locations are red, but west of a line from mid Texas up to Minneapolis the blues are at least light, and occasional grays.
Los Angeles is the largest red in the American west, one of the three most polluted cities on earth, yet would disappear in the vast swath of red in east China. Is there any thing any of us can do, down as we are at the bottom of the food decision chain? Yes there is. We can take ourselves back to Happy Days. 1970. When we were all thin, because we all got along with so much less, two ton Bess, or Les. When we ate food at home, organic and not out of a package, which we heard was coming and would laugh about. A people one day so stupid and fat they pay a dollar for five cents worth of cooked noodles and most of the cost in the package? No way.
The way back, is through the door we came in. Except now those doors are at huge warehouse stores, loaded with packaged goods, mostly from China, all marvelous fakes that we clutter our houses, our credit cards, our lives up with. And plenty of packaged food. Stuff we don't need, can't afford, will tire of and find it moves slowly at the garage sale because everyone else now has one in their own garage sale. Are we blind? Did we not go through this with Japan some time ago? We bought all their cheaper goods until they bought up our treasures.
But we could use our minds, and sense where the global ball is going this time and get into position to catch it first. Like the star brilliant mind of a Steve Nash of basketball fame. Think where it is going to go next, grab it, heave it to your tall guy by their net, and that's how the game gets won. We can do that, if Steve can do that; Steve grew up in my home town of Victoria Canada, so we pay attention. So let us think like an elite athlete, not those huge buggy folks in the discount store line.
This time, pass on your huge discount store buggy, reserve the card for an investment in your retirement, not a lead lined fake, a hindrance to your fate. Clear the mantle piece, and go on the net. Do not buy a fake from a smoke burning factory. Go back in time and buy a true Chinese antiques piece of what they made way back then. Unlike your discount fake, your true antique increases in value every day, even now. But you think of a decade from now, when the people of Shanghai really live at a western level, as in Tokyo today.
Soon enough the new rich of China will look up from their cell phones and new gadgets and notice while their factory spewed CO2 all day, they sold their heritage away. And they will want it back. And you will see that it costs them. You Marco Polo, you. And at that time, when they notice that some foreign person has bought up their family antiques; as with Japan and Taiwan when they got personally rich,they begin to search the earth, paying too much to bring their heirloom treasures back home. Now, the new cell phone is all the rage.
Who cares about grandma's Ming Vase? I do, you too. They will, and then who has something, that someone newly rich wants? You can say, make me rich, you can have grandma's clock back. We might talk the same language after all. Thanks for cleaning up those smoke stacks. Well, that last part could happen.
And the earlier part, fakes to riches, well that is up to you. Put up a real comfy chair, look in some Chinese Antiques sites, and in a way, you are Marco Polo again, and anything from his era on this site could sit fine on your mantle, Mickey, making sure you hit your home run.
And so there it sits on your mantle in bliss, now worth two more zeros at the end of it's worth. You may choose to say no. Come another day, Mr Wong. Take your fake with you. And get filters on those most noxious smoke stacks on earth. Then we could talk about your great grand mother's Ming vase on my mantle, with the other Chinese antiques. Priceless, are they not?
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What are the similarities/differences b/w chinese concept of ming and egyptian royal doctrine?
i have some idea of the "ming" comcept, but for the egyptian royal doctrine,i can't find any information If anyone know about the ancient egyptian royal doctrine, please help me out
I can tell you that the Ming dynasty is played a big role in the chinese history. During that time, the emperor is Qian Long. I know because I am part Chinese!!! Trust me.
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