Monday, June 21, 2010

Xìngyùn bǐnggān

I hope I didn't just say something bad/awkward in Chinese. I think that's the romanization of the chinese word for fortune cookies. Which actually originated in San Francisco (the fortune cookie, not the romanization).

This post is to put to rest any ideas that I have Chinese ancestry (I don't, though I was asked if I did at the last Embassy gourmet night, when you were supposed to bring either a food from the land of your heritage OR one you really liked) and to show that I wasn't bluffing before about making fortune cookies. I made them again!

3 comments:

Tammy and Alvin said...

That's awesome! Did you hand deliver certain "fortunes" to certain people. You could have a lot of fun with that.

Mike said...

I once had an EFY participant ask me if I had Asian ancestry. Didn't realize I looked Asian. Apparently you have the same look.

Jandel said...

Sorry Mike, I am going to say neither you nor Shannon look Asian.
Those cookies look really neat, do you have a recipe?