...at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now:
After they're done eating, (white) people ask if we have fortune cookies.
. . .
(Once, in fact, a [loud-voiced] [round-faced] [old] [white] man with [coke-bottle glasses] and a big [eccentric] group actually pulled out a box for his entire big [eccentric] group he was in with, to give each of them a fortune cookie, after they had finished enjoying their [Thai] meal cooked by us, he must have felt so strongly that everyone needed to finish their meal in that way.)
. . .
(Though, to be fair, maybe I'm being ungenerous here, some Thai places do do pan-Asian cuisine, and there's also that whole [Thai] [Chinese] thing with historic [Chinese] immigrant communities in [Thailand], so maybe some [Thai] restaurants really do hand out fortune cookies after meals, for all I know. I mean, my coworkers say that our restaurant does green curry in a way that just doesn't happen in [Thailand], and the red curry and cashew nut stirfry are things that don't happen there either, they've said, so who knows, maybe some [Thai] restaurants elsewhere take that same liberty and bend the cuisine to include the distribution of fortune cookies.)
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