Chinese Fortune Cookies

“Chinese” Fortune Cookies

I was at the Maine Photographic Workshops last week and didn’t have a chance to post anything. The workshop on studio still life was very educational, and it’s always nice to take a break from the usual routine and just go away and concentrate on photography for the fun of it. It was a great workshop. I’m glad I’m home though.

To celebrate, we went for dim sum this Sunday morning. I had my usual favourites like sui mei (or shu mai) which are steamed dumplings with crab, shrimp, freshwater chestnuts, and coriander (my favourite herb). Another favourite is har gau which are tiny pleated shrimp dumplings. There was another which had pork and watercress. Loved that one. Anyways at the end of the meal, we got fortune cookies and I wondered whether these cookies were really “chinese.”