That’s a North American thing, fortune cookies were invented by a Chinese immigrant in LA, USA.Ģ. For people who might not know what a fortune cookie is, it’s basically a crispy cracker cookie thing where you crack it open, there’s a little paper inside that tells you your fortune, or like a saying. In Hong Kong and in China, we never serve fortune cookies at the end of the meal. I can quickly point out some differences.ġ. I quite like this topic because even back in college I wrote a paper on the comparative analysis of HK local dim sums and American adopted style dim sum. Last week we have talked about how to order food from a casual Cantonese restaurant, tea cafe 茶餐廳, this week let’s continue on to talk about how to order from a Dim Sum restaurant 茶樓 (Dummy PY: Cha Lao).
