Dominic Chua was introduced to the fortune cookie about two years ago during a visit to the US of A. This fabled cookie doesn’t exist in his Chinese culture so he brought a bunch home and videotaped the reaction. “It was kind of fun, cracking it open, and getting the slip of paper, all the while wondering which entrepreneurial Chinese immigrant had come up with these and hoodwinked a whole generation of Americans into thinking that this was what the Chinese folk back home did.”