{"id":3156,"date":"2010-12-03T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T15:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T21:58:10","slug":"got-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/got-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Collections: Got Fortune?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Noodle Company located on the corner of San Pedro Street  and 9th Street, opened around 1913 in downtown Los Angeles&#8217; Chinatown.  According to several sources, David Jung, the owner of Hong Kong Noodle  Company invented the fortune cookie in 1918. It is said that Jung  invented the cookie out of his concern for the poor whom he saw  wandering near his shop. He created cookies containing strips of paper  with inspirational bible messages and passed them out for free on the  streets. Fortune cookies were originally served as an appetizer, not a desert, to help pass the time between ordering your food and having it served. The surprise fortunes inside the cookies promoted conversation among the diners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Hong Kong Noodles Baker's Hat and Tea Cakes Tin\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/12\/HongKongNoodlesCollections.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong Noodles Baker's Hat and Tea Cakes Tin\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The baker&#8217;s hat and the tin can in the photo date from the 1930s. These &#8220;tea cakes&#8221; are actually fortune cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Look for these objects at the upcoming exhibit \u201cSweet and Sour: Chinese Food in America\u201d which is \u00a0scheduled to open in February 2011 at the National Museum of American History.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Sources:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Merlin Lowe, Owner of Hong Kong Noodle Company<\/p>\n<p>Lee, Jennifer 8. <em>The Fortune Cookie Chronicles<\/em>. New York, NY: Twelve Books, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Noodle Company located on the corner of San Pedro Street and 9th Street, opened around 1913 in downtown Los Angeles&#8217; Chinatown. According to several sources, David Jung, the owner of Hong Kong Noodle Company invented the fortune cookie in 1918. It is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7983,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/7983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}