I got my first Fortune cookie at a Cantonese restaurant in the UK. These is no Fortune cookies in China so most of Chinese people don't even see these cookies in real life.
Fun fact for people who don't know Chinese culture outside of the west. Fortune cookies isn't even Chinese, it's an American Chinese thing created in America, exported all over the world, it didn't even originate in China 🇨🇳, it originated from America 🇺🇸, the Chinese locals there in America 🇺🇸 created this fortune cookie 🥠 thing, to cater to their clientele. To westerners. I've NEVER seen this thing inside China at National holidays, we don't don't have these fortune cookies at all, because its NOT from China, it's from America. Once it took off in America, then all these restaurants started doing it, we see it less here in UK, but in America you see it in Chinese restaurants all the time. I Europe too you see it. I've rarely seen it in China, in Hong Kong.
Fortune cookies is not from China but it was made by the Chinese immigrants in America. The same goes for Chow mein, Chop suey, Moo Goo Gai Pan and egg drop soup. Nobody drink egg drop soup outside the States.😋😋😋😋😋
Impressive information! ..and I never even heard of fortune cookies in Malaysian Chinese culture. It’s simply a culture originated from US, San Francisco China town & Western movies 😅😂
Andy. Thanks for the info. What about the amazing bridges, tunnels and highways? And the green projects like wind turbines and huge solar panels outlay?
Agree. 180km/h isn't High Speed Rail. Guangzhou subway trains almost have that speed at 160km/h. So the US "HSR" Is only a little faster than the Guangzhou subway train. Truly the best country in the world. Murica!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It depends. Being Americans, they probably go in the opposite direction when it checked out the speed, So the relative speed is much higher than it is.
I've learned that the diversity (specifically of spoken languages) is the reason why the written language system is pictograph-based, not sound-based. That makes very much sense.
Fortune cookie😂 that’s a fun fact! When I came here in 1988, that was the first thing I asked for when dining at the first Chinese restaurant, and guess what? Yeah… you're right. After asking several more restaurants, they didn't know what I was talking about… so I stopped asking😂… Yeah, Only Hollywood!
Thank you very much for the interesting facts, Andy. I know that whatever China puts its heart to it, it can become massive. As a Hans Chinese, I often ask myself why the Hans Chinese are comparatively successful than other ethnic groups. DO you know?
China has been called “the Middle Kingdom” because it is the center of the world in geography as well as in trade. The word “Han” comes from the first emperor and founder of the Han dynasty in the 2nd BC till 2nd AD. His name was Liu Bang but after he became emperor changed into Han Wuti, the most popular, benevolent, wise emperor of China who was regarded as the emperor of all Chinese people, the identity of the Chinese people, hence everyone today calls himself a “Han Chinese”. In actuality Han kingdom was the smallest kingdom of the seven kingdoms during the warring states period prior to the unification of China by emperor Qin Shihuang in the 3rd century BC. After the collapse of the Qin empire Liu Bang took over and reunited all Chinese in one Han empire.
Spains high speed rail network at 10% of China’s is pretty impressive when you consider they have 3.5% of the population and only 5.3% of the area. I’ve been on them and they're pretty cool.
China is the most awesome and wonderful country in the world. Is that any more wonder how they know how to live a meaningful life. Fortune cookies aside, there are countless foods and every imaginable snack.
Thank Rhadika Desai and Ben Norton. In the confusion we live in it is really helpful to follow you. It kind of dissipates the angst . Philosophy in arabic originally meant the search for peace of mind , not as translated by the Greeks, the love of wisdom. With your deep insight and research you help the man of the street reach that level of peace of mind, which sommehow relieves this economic world that pretends to relieve the pain but with no gain !
@@J.J.J.J.J.J.J strange! I did not comment here at all. And my comment disappeared on you tube lecture of Ben and Rhadika! Thanks anyway for your comment!
@@monacattan3014 No worries. I've had a bunch of comments disappear too! They must be on some mysterious video! Funny enough, right after I replied to your comment I was Andy Borham from Reports on China interview Ben Norton haha.
I'm not a food historian, but those dishes have their origins in China. It's just peasant food served to immigrant labourers during the late 20th century. Chop Suey is just bean sprouts. Egg fu young is still served in Hong Kong's Cafe de Coral. These dishes are just retro uncool by modern standards.
I think they are an American thing probably from California first. If it was anything like British Chinese cuisine it was an adaptation to suit locals.
No. They are an invention of a Japanese-American. They're an American invention. So yeah, not only you won't find fortune cookies in China, you won't find them in Japan as well.
Fortune Cookies are an over-sweet, over-priced gimmick imported product from California (USA) that contains slips of paper with idiotic nonsensical lines of "fortunes" on them, found in Australian supermarkets and given out in only very few Chinese restaurants and for a laugh.
@@j-frame MSG = Monosodium Glutamate, a flavour enhancer derived from seaweed. Some people have an allergic reaction to it and will need an injection of epinephrine (like from an "epi-pen") to neutralise it. MSG is now mostly not found in Asian cooking in restaurants in the West due to this.
Great vid Andy.
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The part about just how many languages are spoken in China was new to me. Not surprising, though.
That would mean you already know a lot about China. Most people outside of China thought that there were only 2: Mandarin and Cantonese.
The incredible breadth of spoken languages is the reason why the written language system is pictograph-based, not sound-based.
👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Thanks Andy for a “lighthearted” look on China.❤❤
The Fortune cookie myth shocked me most.
I got my first Fortune cookie at a Cantonese restaurant in the UK. These is no Fortune cookies in China so most of Chinese people don't even see these cookies in real life.
Please be sure do mention China's bridge, tunnel and dam constructions in the follow-up video.
Thanks Andy for a “lighthearted” look on China. Truly interesting facts, except fortune cookies 🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏🙏🐝
Fun fact for people who don't know Chinese culture outside of the west.
Fortune cookies isn't even Chinese, it's an American Chinese thing created in America, exported all over the world, it didn't even originate in China 🇨🇳, it originated from America 🇺🇸, the Chinese locals there in America 🇺🇸 created this fortune cookie 🥠 thing, to cater to their clientele.
To westerners. I've NEVER seen this thing inside China at National holidays, we don't don't have these fortune cookies at all, because its NOT from China, it's from America.
Once it took off in America, then all these restaurants started doing it, we see it less here in UK, but in America you see it in Chinese restaurants all the time. I Europe too you see it. I've rarely seen it in China, in Hong Kong.
Fortune cookies is not from China but it was made by the Chinese immigrants in America. The same goes for Chow mein, Chop suey, Moo Goo Gai Pan and egg drop soup. Nobody drink egg drop soup outside the States.😋😋😋😋😋
"Yee Sang" was created in Malaysia but has gone on to HK as a China New Year dish to get rich 🤑.
@@cb250nighthawk3 Malaysians even invented the Kopi 'O', Teh 'O' and Popiah whereas Singaporeans invented Angmoh. 😂😂😂😂
@@cb250nighthawk3 Malaysian rambutans were promoted in NYC as Singaporean Lychees. 😂😂😂😂
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Lychees with hairs🤣🤣🤣
Impressive information!
..and I never even heard of fortune cookies in Malaysian Chinese culture.
It’s simply a culture originated from US, San Francisco China town & Western movies 😅😂
Andy. Thanks for the info. What about the amazing bridges, tunnels and highways? And the green projects like wind turbines and huge solar panels outlay?
Kia Ora Andy, ❤❤❤To think that we have Chop Suey in New Zealand😱😢❗️Nga Mini.😘😘
Andy, HSR is when it can go faster then 250km/h.
USA "HSR" goes 180km/h.
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So it is NOT consider as HSR.
Agree. 180km/h isn't High Speed Rail. Guangzhou subway trains almost have that speed at 160km/h. So the US "HSR" Is only a little faster than the Guangzhou subway train. Truly the best country in the world. Murica!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It depends. Being Americans, they probably go in the opposite direction when it checked out the speed, So the relative speed is much higher than it is.
To the Americans, it is HSR.
Must say fresh fortune cookies are very tasty! Especially with a cup of strong hot jasmine tea!!🍵
I've learned that the diversity (specifically of spoken languages) is the reason why the written language system is pictograph-based, not sound-based. That makes very much sense.
Make a video about The Rebranding of Chinese Culture. Stealing from China and Rebranding as Japanese or Korean
Imitation is a form of flattery.
@@WalkOverHotCoal Not when the imitator claims to be original.
Koreans now believe they invented everything
Facts only. Thank you for them.
love these, should also add another fun fact of how many Chinese cities have population of over a million, vs the US.
Only the shopping festival was new to me. The other four were pretty obvious.
Sleepy Joe would have run his regime better if he had relied entirely on the wisdom contained in fortune cookies
Fortune cookie😂 that’s a fun fact! When I came here in 1988, that was the first thing I asked for when dining at the first Chinese restaurant, and guess what? Yeah… you're right. After asking several more restaurants, they didn't know what I was talking about… so I stopped asking😂… Yeah, Only Hollywood!
Andy, I enjoy watching your videos, but the background music on this video is very distracting.
Thank you very much for the interesting facts, Andy. I know that whatever China puts its heart to it, it can become massive. As a Hans Chinese, I often ask myself why the Hans Chinese are comparatively successful than other ethnic groups. DO you know?
China has been called “the Middle Kingdom” because it is the center of the world in geography as well as in trade. The word “Han” comes from the first emperor and founder of the Han dynasty in the 2nd BC till 2nd AD. His name was Liu Bang but after he became emperor changed into Han Wuti, the most popular, benevolent, wise emperor of China who was regarded as the emperor of all Chinese people, the identity of the Chinese people, hence everyone today calls himself a “Han Chinese”. In actuality Han kingdom was the smallest kingdom of the seven kingdoms during the warring states period prior to the unification of China by emperor Qin Shihuang in the 3rd century BC. After the collapse of the Qin empire Liu Bang took over and reunited all Chinese in one Han empire.
Spains high speed rail network at 10% of China’s is pretty impressive when you consider they have 3.5% of the population and only 5.3% of the area. I’ve been on them and they're pretty cool.
Interesting on Chinese cookie! ✌️❤️🙏😘
Fact number one is most interesting.
Thanks but weren't new to me at all cuz I follow Chinese facts.
China is the most awesome and wonderful country in the world. Is that any more wonder how they know how to live a meaningful life. Fortune cookies aside, there are countless foods and every imaginable snack.
Rodeo is Mexican 🇲🇽, not gringos 🇺🇸.
Kashgar is closer to Minsk (Belarus) than is to Beijing 😊
I believe that my family ancestors came from song dynasty
Thank Rhadika Desai and Ben Norton. In the confusion we live in it is really helpful to follow you. It kind of dissipates the angst .
Philosophy in arabic originally meant the search for peace of mind , not as translated by the Greeks, the love of wisdom. With your deep insight and research you help the man of the street reach that level of peace of mind, which sommehow relieves this economic world that pretends to relieve the pain but with no gain !
Ben Norton is great! And your comment on philosophy's meaning is meaningful.
However, you may have commented on the wrong video.
@@J.J.J.J.J.J.J strange!
I did not comment here at all. And my comment disappeared on you tube lecture of Ben and Rhadika!
Thanks anyway for your comment!
It was about how big corporations work in the program called geo political economy
@@monacattan3014 No worries. I've had a bunch of comments disappear too! They must be on some mysterious video!
Funny enough, right after I replied to your comment I was Andy Borham from Reports on China interview Ben Norton haha.
@@monacattan3014 Oh nice, ya that program is very informative.
Andy uk hasnt got a hsr network, the government is still trying to figure out what cities the hsr should cross😂
*Chop Suey !!!*
Chop Suey 雜碎 and Egg Foo Young 芙蓉蛋 both are invented in America too😆
I'm not a food historian, but those dishes have their origins in China. It's just peasant food served to immigrant labourers during the late 20th century. Chop Suey is just bean sprouts. Egg fu young is still served in Hong Kong's Cafe de Coral. These dishes are just retro uncool by modern standards.
What's that?
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How much would the chinese pay for a rare hard to find cookie?
They are an invention of over-sea Chinese.
A little bit Chinese 😂😂😂
I think they are an American thing probably from California first. If it was anything like British Chinese cuisine it was an adaptation to suit locals.
Invented by a Japanese.
Wrong. They're the invention of a Japanese-American, an overseas Japanese.
No. They are an invention of a Japanese-American. They're an American invention. So yeah, not only you won't find fortune cookies in China, you won't find them in Japan as well.
What is Chinese? You have over 90 ethnicities. 😂😂😂
Fortune Cookies are an over-sweet, over-priced gimmick imported product from California (USA) that contains slips of paper with idiotic nonsensical lines of "fortunes" on them, found in Australian supermarkets and given out in only very few Chinese restaurants and for a laugh.
it's sold at Aldi during Lunar New Year
不论政治观点如何，你非常有才华！
MSG is not Chinese but Japanese
MSG? What's that?
Ask Uncle Roger
@@j-frame Monosodium glutamate
@@j-frame MSG = Monosodium Glutamate, a flavour enhancer derived from seaweed. Some people have an allergic reaction to it and will need an injection of epinephrine (like from an "epi-pen") to neutralise it. MSG is now mostly not found in Asian cooking in restaurants in the West due to this.
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