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It's Chinatown

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The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company

The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company is based in San Francisco's Chinatown. The fortune cookie machines flatten round dabs of batter onto a conveyor belt and a worker sits next to this belt and folds the hot cookies around the paper fortunes, one by one by hand. Ming learned how to fold the cookies when he was around eight years old.

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