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Fortune cookie
Started turtoni · Date: Sep 5, 2007 22:44 · 1 post(s)

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Started Space Cowboy · Date: May 28, 2007 08:11 · 1 post(s)

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Fortune cookie
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for joy luck in alt.philosophy
Author: turtoni
Date: Sep 5, 2007 22:44

"The non-Chinese origin of the fortune cookie is humorously illustrated in Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club, in which a pair of Chinese immigrant women find jobs at a fortune cookie factory in America. They are amused by the unfamiliar concept of a fortune cookie but, after several hilarious attempts at translating the fortunes into Chinese, come to the ...

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Chinatown going upscale
Group: rec.food.drink.tea · Group Profile · Search for joy luck in rec.food.drink.tea
Author: Space Cowboy
Date: May 28, 2007 08:11

What hasn't changed. Joy Luck Dong Ding TGY from China. Weak multiple infusions versus Taiwan descendent. PouChong from Hsin Tung Yang located in Taipei which also uses the Qing character. So far all my commercial teas from Taiwan use this character for PouChong. If there is a back road from here to there I'll take it. I'm on one of those roads in my metro area I never visit. I ran across a huge new Asian ...

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