Having just completed one whole 60-year cycle of the Dragon zodiac (that is if I make it until midnight) I'm kind of sad the Year of the Dragon is coming to an end and the Year of the Snake is about to begin.
Talking About Dragons in 2024, The Year of the Dragon?πππ²Why does my Year of the Dragon token look like Jupiter? |
I started reading Bryce Courtenay's novel 'Fortune Cookie' recently, having found it in a street library on the way to a Brisbane Lions AFLW game last year, as I wrote in this post -
Synchronicity and The Hidden Hand in Jeremy Vaeni's Word Salad?✋✍⛅πΈπ»π₯π¦Bryce Courtenay's novel 'Fortune Cookie' |
I see that Bryce Courtenay passed away in 2012, the last Year of the Dragon.
Surprisingly, fortune cookies are a Japanese invention that really got going in San Francisco, so I've heard on a few recent podcasts and reading the never wrong Wikipedia.
"Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in the U.S. to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the early 1900s. The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo."The oldest operating public Japanese Garden in North America? |
Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory |
Allegiant Stadium and Las Vegas |
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