In Chinese restaurants in the US and Canada, fortune cookies are always given to customers after a meal.

This familiar cookie is prized for more than just its good taste.The secret sentiments inside the smiling crescent shape guise makes a fortune cookie hard to resist.

After the meal fortune cookies come,everyone chooses their fortune,people open them up,some people eat the cookies first,others read the messages first.And it's just the start of an evening's conversation.

Believe it or not,the fortune cookie is an American tradition invented in 1916 by a Los Angeles Chinese noodle manufacturer and popularized during the great depression.

The fortune cookies were meant as something to boost the morale of the people,not just the Chinese people,but also the American peole living here.