Dessert at Mr. Tangs

Comments and critiques welcome. Thanks for looking.

very beautiful light,color and composition !

martha stewart would be proud :)

Martha Stewart's my middle name :)

 

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Good fortune good food! Great Photo! What more could one ask for? Peace to you and yours.

Thanks :) Peace and good fortune right back at ya!

 

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Been there - great food. Great shot. Thanks for sharing.

Bright oranges ... tasty composition, regards for you.

I find myself wanting to see one cookie cracked open with half the fortune exposed for reading. I love the detail you got in the slice of orange, it makes me want to BITE IT!!!

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Shawn - not only were they photogenic but those oranges were might delicious. And I'm from Florida! It never occurred to me to show part of a fortune, but it would have been clever. This is exactly the way the dish was presented to us. Everything at this restaurant was First Class.

 

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Yummy! Excellent colors and composition.

 

Alberto

Ooh - nice still life ... well-lit and great detail.

A delight of image in all senses, Alberta. Excellent shot! Congrats!

Thanks!

 

Does your family give you grief when you bring your camera into a restaurant and photograph everything in sight? Mine does. And then they admire the after effects. So we must keep shooting :)

 

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We don't have fortune cookies here but I have tried it before & I still remembered my anticipation when cracking it open.

Interesting history on the fortune cookie (from the Wikipedia):

 

San Francisco and Los Angeles both lay claim to the origin of the fortune cookie. Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is said to have invented the cookie as an extension to Japanese desserts in 1909, while David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, is said to have invented them in 1918. San Francisco's mock Court of Historical Review took the case in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a key piece of evidence with a message reading, "S.F. Judge who rules for L.A. Not Very Smart Cookie". A federal judge of the Court of Historical Review determined that the cookie originated with Hagiwara and the court ruled in favor of San Francisco. Subsequently, the city of Los Angeles condemned the decision.

 

A legend says that in the 13th and 14th century, when the Mongols ruled China, a revolutionary named Chu Yuan Chang planned an uprising against the Mongols. He used mooncakes to pass along the date of the uprising to the Chinese by replacing the yolk in the center of the mooncake with the message written on rice paper. The Mongols did not care for the yolks, so the plan went on successfully and the Ming Dynasty began. The Moon Festival celebrates this with the tradition of giving mooncakes with messages inside. It is believed that immigrant Chinese railroad workers, without the ingredients to make regular mooncakes, made biscuits instead. It is these biscuits that are believed to be today's fortune cookies.

 

The sad part about the Western version of the fortune cookie is that we seem to have run out of "fortune" and instead inside the cookies find sayings more often than not. Utterly disappointing.

 

My dogs (two Schnauzers, gone many years) used to love these things!

 

Have you heard of or attended a Moon Festival, as mentioned above?

 

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Very sweet capture, interesting presentation, Alberta P., lovely capture! GOOD LUCK IN 2OO8!

Thanks. And good fortune to you too in 2008 - mental, physical and financial :)