Chat & Selfie: Bad fortune cookies, critics from Mars and crab Rangoon. May 23, 2015 4:41 PM PT . ... Like most Chinese restaurants, fortune cookie factories are small family operations.

For lunch today I decided to patronize a large chinese buffet around the corner from my office. After finishing both my meal and my paper the check was delivered along with the usual fortune cookie.

THAT'S THE WAY the fortune cookie crumbles. Guests at a Chinese New Year event hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz got an eyeful after cracking open fortune cookies with messages ...

This Fortune is Bad...In Bed. By . Jen Chung. Published Feb 10, 2006. Modified Mar 7, 2008. Share ... Besides, fortunes in fortune cookies these days are more bromides than actual fortunes.

Not horrible: Here’s how my cookie crumbled at Golden Pavilion , Jupiter. (Photo by Liz Balmaseda) We have decreed the end of the work week as Fortune Cookie Friday. But don’t confuse this with… ...

That's right -- the fortune cookie is not Chinese at all. They were actually invented in Japan, and then migrated to U.S. Japanese restaurants in California in the early 1900's.