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One history of the fortune cookie claims that David Jung, a Chinese immigrant living in Los Angeles and founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company, invented the cookie in 1918. Concerned about the poor he saw wandering near his shop, he created the cookie and passed them out free on the streets.
At first, fortune cookies were made by hand using chopsticks. Today, they are mass-produced by special machines. The world's largest fortune cookie maker â Wonton Food Inc. â is located in Long Island City, New York. It ships over 60 million fortune cookies every month! Around the world, more than three billion fortune cookies are made every year. Isn't that incredible? Just do the math. If there are that many fortune cookies, how many meals are served in Chinese restaurants each year? It must be billions! As for predicting the future, no, fortune cookies don't have special powers of foresight. The fortune cookie you open at a Chinese restaurant came into your hands randomly. If it happens to contain a fortune that comes true, it's just coincidence. Besides, many fortunes don't even predict the future.