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Fortune cookie

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A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", on which is an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. [1]

51 relations: Aleuromancy, American Chinese cuisine, Amy Tan, Aphorism, Asian American Journalists Association, Black comedy, Brazil, Brooklyn, California, Chifa, China, Chinese language, ColorLines, Cookie, Court of Historical Review, Flour, Fushimi Inari-taisha, Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company, Golden Gate Park, Hachette Book Group, Hong Kong Noodle Company, Internment of Japanese Americans, Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco), Kanazawa, Kau cim, Kyoto, List of American foods, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Lottery, Magic 8-Ball, Makoto Hagiwara, Midwestern United States, Minneapolis, O-mikuji, Oakland, California, Oil, Peru, Philadelphia, Prophecy, San Francisco, Seattle, Sesame oil, Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States, Sugar, Tea, The Joy Luck Club (novel), Tsujiura, Vanilla, ..., Western world. Expand index (1 more) »

Aleuromancy

Aleuromancy is the use of flour for divination.

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American Chinese cuisine

American Chinese cuisine is a style of Chinese cuisine developed by Americans of Chinese descent.

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Amy Tan

Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience.

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Aphorism

An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting "delimitation", "distinction", and "definition") is a concise, terse, laconic, and/or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.

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Asian American Journalists Association

The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) was founded in 1981 by several Asian American journalists in order to support greater participation by Asian Americans in the news media.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Chifa

Chifa is culinary tradition based on Chinese Cantonese elements fused with traditional Peruvian ingredients and traditions.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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ColorLines

Colorlines is a daily news site featuring investigative reporting and news analysis from the perspective of communities of color.

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Cookie

A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is small, flat and sweet.

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Court of Historical Review

The Court of Historical Review (sometimes called the Court of Historical Review and Appeal) is a mock court in San Francisco, California.

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Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains or roots and used to make many different foods.

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Fushimi Inari-taisha

is the head shrine of the god Inari, located in Fushimi Ward in Kyoto, Japan.

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Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company

The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company is a fortune cookie company with its main entrance off Ross Alley, near Jackson Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California in the United States.

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Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds.

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Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world.

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Hong Kong Noodle Company

Hong Kong Noodle Shop is a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, United States.

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Internment of Japanese Americans

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000Various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons.

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Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco)

The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California, is a popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling World's Fair, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894.

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Kanazawa

is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kau cim

Kau Cim, Kau Chim or Lottery poetry is a fortune telling practice that originated in China in which the querent (person asking the question) requests answers from a sacred oracle lot.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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List of American foods

This is a list of American foods and dishes.

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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

This is a list of topics that have, at one point or another in their history, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.

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Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lottery

A lottery is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers for a prize.

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Magic 8-Ball

The Magic 8-Ball is a toy used for fortune-telling or seeking advice, developed in the 1950s and manufactured by Mattel.

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Makoto Hagiwara

(15 August 1854 – 12 September 1925) was a Japanese and landscape designer responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, from 1895 until his death in 1925.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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O-mikuji

are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Prophecy

A prophecy is a message that is claimed by a prophet to have been communicated to them by a god.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Sesame oil

Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds.

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Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States

Stereotypes of East Asians are ethnic stereotypes found in American society about first-generation immigrants, and American-born citizens whose family members immigrated to the U.S., from East Asian countries, such as China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub (bush) native to Asia.

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The Joy Luck Club (novel)

The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan.

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Tsujiura

are notes used in Japan in conjunction with rice crackers called senbei in a similar way to fortune cookies in the United States of America.

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Vanilla

Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia).

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Western world

The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie

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