Sunday marked the Chinese New Year, and as a result there are bound to be a lot of fortune cookies eaten in celebration. Many people will crack open their oven-baked pastry to find grammatically ...

Yoda our new Confucius is. The purpose of fortune cookies became startlingly clear to me then: This is Western wisdom recycled for an American audience. The Chinese are just the middlemen.

Confucius would be so disappointed in us. Fortune cookies, one of the last bastions of unadulterated good left in this world, are now just a vessel for selling you crap. A New York City-based ...

Considering how ubiquitous fortune cookies are in American Chinese restaurants, you can understand why I was troubled to learn that they aren't actually a Chinese invention.According to today's ...

Although the sayings of Confucius fill many a fortune cookie, neither Confucius nor most people living in mainland China or Hong Kong today have ever broken one open. These purely American treats, … ...

THAT’S THE WAY the fortune cookie crumbles. Guests at a Chinese New Year event hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz got an eyeful after cracking open fortune cookies with mess… ...

If you’re like me, I think the fortunes inside of fortune cookies are more fun than eating the cookie. That’s why I’m really into Fortune Tees. Babies, kids, pregnant ladies, moms, and dads ...

If you’re like me, I think the fortunes inside of fortune cookies are more fun than eating the cookie. That’s why I really into Fortune Tees. Babies, kids, pregnant ladies, moms, and dads have ...

So just who was Confucius, anyway? It’s a question I’ve been hearing a lot lately. Confucius: Who was he? A kind of Chinese Jesus? A martial arts master? A bitter old man with a long, wispy beard? A ...

No word on whether the die reads more like something from Confucius, or whether it has the same basic sayings as before. Personally, when I need a Magic 8-ball to answer a question I fire up my ...