fortune cookie

/ˌfɔrtʃən ˈkʊki/

/ˈfɔtʃun ˈkʊki/

A fortune cookie is the sweet, crisp little dessert offered at many Chinese restaurants that has a slip of paper inside it. The message inside a fortune cookie says something like "Your hard work will pay off."

Fortune cookies are a sweet treat to look forward to after you finish your dan dan noodles and garlic green beans. They're made from circles of sweet batter that are baked, then folded into little packages — fortunes tucked inside — before they cool. Fortunes vary from predicting the future to offering inscrutable advice, like "Do it now — today will be yesterday tomorrow." While they're a mainstay of Chinese restaurants, fortune cookies originated in Japan.

Definitions of fortune cookie

1. noun

   thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
   type of:

   biscuit, cookie, cooky

   any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)