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The History of Fortune Cookies
Chop sui is not a real Chinese dish. At all. It's as American as apple pie. Americans want dessert because we are American and we like things which are sweet and fatty. And that's how dishes like chop sui were invented. The name, actually means assorted pieces, like odds and ends.
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