The IMPORT⁄EXPORT Fortune Cookie

Good luck is a bir­die, über­set­zen inter­na­tio­na­le Ver­mark­ter die ers­te Zei­le des berühm­ten Wie­ner Lieds. Ande­rer­seits glau­ben nicht nur Ame­ri­ka­ner, dass die Glücks­kek­se aus Chi­na kom­men – schließ­lich wer­den sie ja im Chi­na-Restau­rant ser­viert. Irr­tum, sagt Jen­ni­fer 8. Lee: „I was once one of tho­se peo­p­le. After all, I was born in New York City and we got for­tu­ne coo­kies in the Chi­ne­se restau­rants that we went to gro­wing up. What did I know? I didn’t step foot in Chi­na until I was in my 20s. It was only in midd­le school, while rea­ding a popu­lar novel, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, that I lear­ned that for­tu­ne coo­kies weren’t Chi­ne­se at all becau­se the women in the book, Chi­ne­se immi­grants, were making fun of them at a for­tu­ne coo­kie fac­to­ry in San Francisco.
My world stood still. For­tu­ne coo­kies weren’t Chinese?“