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 ...

Back in the heyday of the fortune cookie boom, during the 1950s and ’60s, a handful of fortune writers actually did look to the East for their inspiration, drawing from the I Ching, Confucius ...

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.

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 messages ...

Confucius’ hometown in Qufu is now a famous tourist destination for those who wish to better understand his life and thought. ... In Waley’s translation, Confucius’ thought is captured at its sagely ...

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 ...