The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, (Paperback)

from bostonian71

Entertaining and informative. It took me a little while to get used to how much the narrative rambled -- I'm more used to more linear foodie memoirs -- but the topics were so interesting I got beyond that. (Who knew that fortune cookies were probably invented by the Japanese? Or that Chinese rest...

from dele2451

A Mandarin-speaking, Chinese-American reporter from New York spends 3+ years traveling the globe researching the murky origins of the fortune cookie and the popularity of Chinese restaurants around the world. A quirky, interesting, and hunger-inducing piece of fusion nutritional-anthropology-meet...

from engpunk77

This took months to read as it traveled with me everywhere in my purse, ready to be read in an emergency waiting situation. I don't know how I ended up with this book, but it was well-written and absolutely fascinating. I hadn't previously cared to know anything about Chinese restaurants, illegal...

from Shmuel510

Scattershot but fun. (Though parts of it -- especially the search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant -- seem to exist largely to justify the author's expense account, without really adding much of value.) Might have benefited from being both more organized and more thorough... I enjoyed ...

from Rosa.Mill

This was much darker than I thought it would be. I was expecting it to be the story of the development of Fortune Cookies not american chinese food as a whole. It's definitely an interesting story and I love all the trivia type knowledge I got out of it.