If this isn't about the principle.

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Fortune cookies are disgusting.

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Oh I’ve noticed. I share your pain. I need answers.

Taste of north China has amazing tasty Chinese food and they always give us fortune cookies

I’ve seen that place on the delivery apps. I’ll have to try it.

Order from there this week for the first time and we didn’t! Great food though.

As a Chinese person, my theory is that Chinese restaurants here are opened by newer generation who actually didn’t grow up here and just never think fortune cookie is a thing (it’s not a thing in China, and is actually inherited from Japanese immigrants because during WWII they were put in camps), and probably want to distinguish themselves from the older generations of Chinese restaurants that do serve fortune cookies (which is perceived as cheap unauthentic American Chinese food)

Fortune cookies are actually Japanese and we're adopted by Chinese American places. I would not expect fortune cookies from places that are delivering authentic Chinese and only might expect it from places that are Chinese American style.

Chef Tan does and they’re really the best. Also depending on the place there are halal or more specialized Chinese restaurants which are not opened up by the families who have been here for generations.

King Szechuan sends a few fortune cookies whenever I’ve ordered some soup and noodles from them

Just got some in an order from Future two days ago

Today I learned that some people give a shit about fortune cookies.

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This is what the Chinese spy balloon was trying to find out.

Thats a great answer

So outrageous I honestly didn't notice in my 3 years of living here

Americanized Chinese food is also to be loved as it's own sloppy thing. Plenty of places in town slinging classic Americanized Chinese

Fulop's fault obviously.

New Kellogg Garden near Acme on 440 does.

I chuckled at first, but then I thought about it a bit. The joke is that the Chinese spy balloon is delivering american-chinese takeout food. Haha those ridiculous communists. But there are no fortune cookies in China. The people who work in these restaurants are not the CCP; and I know that's not what you meant but the joke implies that they are connected. Does anyone remember Freedom Fries? Bans on Stoli and Smiroff? That's all.

They had to cut back because of the out of control taxes and rent! (I hope that's not the real answer...)

Damn….a Reddit post about a lack of fortune cookies… that’s wild

That’s one of our go-to places and they usually don’t give them. You got lucky!

Outrageous !! No fortune cookies!!

A great question! My Chinese family says American-invented Fortune cookies were handmade and only in the United States are they a dessert giveaway. And, since the older workers retired, there has been few new workers to learn how to fold HOT soft cookie sheets into fortune cookies. Also, factories dedicated to making fortune cookies, once upon a time located in lower east side of New York City, now million dollar condos. Price of butter up, too, not worth giving away. No cookies for you, Jersey City!