They’re far from cookie-cutter fortunes. New York City restaurants are baking up inventive — and sometimes naughty — fortune cookies to ring in Chinese New Year, which starts Monday.

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 ...

Ask your average American what associations they have with fortune cookies, and the predictable answer is that they’re the dessert that comes at the end of a meal at Chinese-American restaurants ...

When people think of Chinese restaurants, one of the first things that comes to mind is fortune cookies. While these are ...

Here's the first thing you should know about fortune cookies: They don't come from China. Surprising, perhaps, but not completely shocking. But how about this: They were not invented by Chinese ...

one diner shared a photo of an advertisement replacing a fortune in a Chinese restaurant's fortune cookie. "Fortunes replaced with ads at our fav Chinese place," the original poster wrote.

“A fortune cookie represents who I am,” Wong says. “I’m a Chinese American. I’m not entirely Chinese, and I’m not entirely American. I’m both, and that’s what a fortune cookie i ...

Ads for pubic hair trimmers have replaced the usual predictions and aphorisms found in fortune cookies in thousands of Chinese restaurants throughout the country, including several in Denver.