Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
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Some 3 billion fortune cookies are made each year, almost all in the United States. But the crisp cookies wrapped around enigmatic sayings have spread around the world. They are served in Chinese restaurants in Britain, Mexico, Italy, France and elsewhere. In India, they taste more like butter cookies. A surprisingly high number of winning tickets in Brazil's national lottery in 2004 were traced to lucky numbers from fortune cookies distributed by a Chinese restaurant chain called Chinatown.
Believe it or not,I do use fortune cookies number to buy lottery and Draw 4 but never won,of course.Usually when we run out of number to buy but not willing to use the automatic selection,we try fortune cookies luck!!

But there is one place where fortune cookies are conspicuously absent: China.
Yes,why?..I surprise when I read this article..It's the name Fortune in Chinese mean LUCK??.

Now a researcher in Japan believes she can explain the disconnect, which has long perplexed American tourists in China. Fortune cookies, Yasuko Nakamachi says, are almost certainly originally from Japan.
Fortune cookies are originally come from Japan!! hmmmm..very interesting...but Japanese restaurant doesn't serve fortune cookies

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