i was tidying up my stuff after my trip and came across 2 paper slips in the pockets of my coat... fortune cookie slips from the dinner with my auntie at Lily's in NewYork... where you can find really good authentic chinese dishes! it was so funny though how we ended up with the cookies... we thought that with a company of 4 we would get a complimentary plate of cut oranges as dessert but the waitress said we weren't a party-size and when we asked what a party-sized group was she replied that we had to pre-book a table -- which we did... and she said we should have gotten our fortune cookies but we didn't... and so she gave us one each.
i don't know how or why fortune cookies are so popular in the states... it's quite amusing really... a silly sort of fun.
anyways, we opened up ours and found our fortune slips... 2 were complete nonsense and my brother spotted the bowl of fortune cookies lying not far away from our table and saw that the close was clear and helped us to 4 more cookies to find our fortunes! heeeeheee
while we were happily reading the next set of fortunes, my auntie remarked that maybe we had better go because the waitress who then passed by our table seemed perplexed; possibly wondering how our 4 cookie slips multiplied to 8... but this time we had better luck!
1st cookie slip : "With your beautiful voice, please sing a song for everyone. some random numbers :[38 18 48 41 11 14]; Speak Chinese: Grape -- 葡萄 Pu(2)Tao(2)"
2nd cookie slip: "Reach for the stars, but keep your feet on the ground. random numbers :[8 48 36 44 6 19]; Speak Chinese: Grey -- 灰 Hui(1)"
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Sunday, 24 April, 2005 at 01:49 hrs
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