Real Fortunes

[snowcrab]

Most fortune cookies contain fortunes that are either impossibly vague, or just boring. There's a faux-Japanese restaurant in my area (run by Chinese people... naturally!) that has a giant bin of free fortune cookies. The fortunes contained within these cookies are... a little different from what you get at most places. Here's a sample of real

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[ponpoko]

I thought fortune cookie sayings originally were either Bible verses (from the original fortune cookies, which were handed out to feed the poor) or Confucian sayings. I don't think they were ever really "fortunes" per se.

As a side note, we've noticed that any Japanese restaurant not actually Japanese-owned/run tends to have a Japanese town/place name in the title (and tends to be Korean owned/run, not Chinese owned/run, in m experience). This helps distinguish restaurants when I'm visiting a new town and paging through a phone book in a hotel room or something. For example, a restaurant called "Tokyo Garden" has a 99% chance of not being a real Japanese owned/run restaurant, while one called "Eki Mae" has a much better chance (though, in fact, it's a Korean owned sushi shop here, with a kick ass name). I won't even go into how much I love the name "Wagamama" which is the name of an international noodle chain from the UK.

[snowcrab]

Hey, you're right! This place is called "Little Tokyo". Other places in my area that seem to be Japanese-owned: Sakura, Haruno, Nakato, and Mijuri (I haven't decided if that's a silly transliteration of "Missouri" or not...)

[kaija187]

You have to add "in bed" to the end of every fortune from a fortune cookie and they all immediately will make sense!