I have a long standing love affair with Chinese food. I never tried Chinese food until college, but liked it then. I didn’t get to go very often – until I started dating Tim. He goes through phases now, but when we met, he really loved going to eat Chinese. He taught me to eat with chopsticks on about our third or fourth date. To this day, I always eat that kind of food with chopsticks. We always ask in restaurants if they don’t bring them out, and we have a nice set at home that we use.
It’s funny, because Tim knows how much I love Chinese. We go to restaurants, and we get take-out, and I even do some easy Chinese type dishes at home to satisfy my cravings. Tim always knows that if he asks, I will always accept his offer to go out to eat Chinese. Tim has called on the way home from work before, with my having already started or finished cooking supper and said “Do you want to go eat Chinese tonight?” The answer is always, always – Yes! I have put up supper in tupperware containers for the next night and washed a sink full of dishes from cooking, then gone out to eat Chinese, LOL!
Anyway, like most people, we always have fun opening up our fortune cookies at the end of the meal, to see what we got. We went to a Chinese buffet for lunch a couple of weeks ago, when my dad was here and Tim’s dad was in the hospital. We all opened our fortune cookie before we left, and we were dumbfounded by one of them. We still can’t figure it out. It has to be some kind of misprint. I just don’t get it. Like I told Tim, maybe it means something in Chinese, but it is totally lost in the translation. Then again, it’s probably just a crappy fortune 🙂
See if you can decipher it, and see who lucked out with the bad one!
My Dad’s says – Find release from your cares, have a good time.
Mine says – Fame and fortune are coming your way.
Tim’s says – I spent the time prepare the song, while the song is not being sung.
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I LOVE Chinese food also, and I can use chopsticks! 🙂 I shouldn’t have read this post though, cause now I am so hungry for some Chinese and I haven’t been able to eat anything other than soup and jello! UGH!
As for the fortune cookie….Tim’s is not one I can even try to understand!!!! LOL
I can use chopsticks, but not very well. And especially since my right hand is immobilized, I have to use a fork.
Also, before the surgery, the use of chopsticks would make my wrist very sore… so now when I’m healed I should be able to use them without a problem!
i actually had chinese today and for the first time in a long time ate so not friendly weight watchers choice. I had my favorite General Tso’s Chicken. Halfway through I stopped and planned to keep it that way due to being full. However since I did not get up from the table (I was with my friends) and kept it in front of me I kept eating it and finished it all and am very much regretting it now. I have a stomach ache from eating too much and am way to full for my nice weight watchers meatloaf I just made for dinner! Oh and I have never tried to use chopsticks but I make a mess with a fork so I do not think I would fare well with them.
I haven’t had chinese food in so long!
I love chinese food! I usually think the fortunes are crummy, Tim’s is weird. Wonder if it was supposed to be “preparing” the song……..spent time working on something, preparing something but it’s not being used. That’s a long shot in the dark, I have no idea what it means, I can’t always figure them out! To me they’re not fortunes but just sayings.
It must be Tim’s. It sounds like it was written by a very frustrated musician. He wrote the dang song, and now no one is singing it!
HUH?!! That is so weird!
I love Chinese food too but it’s never on my diet. We have a restaurant nearby that has a really good buffet so once in a while we go on Fri. night. I have never learned to eat with chopsticks though! I feel inferior when at a Chinese restaurant! LOL One of these days, I’ll learn.
I have a really great Chinese restaurant in my town that uses really good quality ingredients. You are making me hungry for that!!!
Somehow, I think the “song” was lost in translation!
I love Chinese food. But after Saturday night, I might prefer Japanese – a little cleaner and I didn’t miss the sauces. Mike unfortunately doesn’t love Chinese but he will endure it occasionally . . . he likes the won-ton soup and egg rolls best I think.
Tim’s means that you can spend lots of time preparing something, but if you don’t LIVE it (sing it) then it doesn’t mean anything. (** I think**- ha!). My favorite fortune of all time is “Give the lady what she wants”…and it hangs proudly on our refrigerator.
I just found this in my search for meanings of a quote on a fortune cookie, and mine says the exact same thing….three and a half years later. Not too many people answered what they thought it meant, they just said they like or miss chinese food, or chopsticks. Thanks for sharing your blog, if you’re still around, and I hope we can find meaning some time!
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