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A Sign of Things To Come

Chinese New Year

A fortune cookie told me: “Pineapple Tart Explosion starting.. soon”.

11 Comments

  1. donaq — 22 January, 2006 #

    Not to sound like a sua ku, but where the hell do you guys get fortune cookies? I just suddenly realised that I have never eaten a fortune cookie in my life, ever.

  2. popagandhi — 22 January, 2006 #

    I’ve never actually seen or eaten one. It just sounded better than ‘a little bird told me’..

  3. Angela — 22 January, 2006 #

    Sorry I know this seems a little late. I refer to your previous entry about getting a pap smear. Suffering from stage 3c cancer now, I urge all your readers to get tests regularly, including blood tests for CA125 level. I had a pap smear done but it didn’t indicate the cancer until my blood test.

  4. geroithe — 22 January, 2006 #

    haha tell me about it man – i have like 5 boxes of pineapple tarts in my kitchen, freshly out of the oven!

    Must. Resist. Temptation.

  5. w. — 22 January, 2006 #

    donaq – Visit all the chinkychonky chinese restaurants you can find and hope they give you one after your meal!

    I once tried to make fortune cookies but they were too hot to fold when malleable and started breaking once they’d cooled down, so I ended up with a whole tupperware of discs that tasted like fortune cookies. :|

  6. MercerMachine — 22 January, 2006 #

    fortune cookies sold at 7-11, upper east coast road next to killiney kopitiam. why? who knows? but it’s the only place I’ve seen ‘em in singapore.

  7. mungyo — 22 January, 2006 #

    i’ve only heard abt fortune cookies in western movies, never actually seen them, haha. to think the westerners keep portraying fortune cookies as part of the chinese culture.

  8. w. — 22 January, 2006 #

    That’s true – I’ve had a much higher rate of receiving fortune cookies in chinese restaurants outside of countries with a high population of chinese residents.

  9. jane — 22 January, 2006 #

    you can find fortune cookies now in guardian(of all places!) huge packets being sold :P

  10. donaq — 23 January, 2006 #

    Haha, thanks for all the information about fortune cookie sources. I’ll try to get my paws on a few, just to see what they taste like. :)

  11. jangace — 23 January, 2006 #

    It’s also interesting to see every single chinese restaurant in US serves fortune cookies! I never knew fortune cookies went so popular until I came to US.

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