Who Invented Fortune Cookies. David jung was a chinese immigrant who established the los angeles’s hong kong noodle company. In 1988, mike fry invented the concept of fortune cookies in fun flavors and colors and founded fancy fortune cookies®.

Like chop suey, fortune cookies are an american invention. Concerned about the poor he saw wandering near his shop, he created the cookie and passed them out free on the streets. David jung was a chinese immigrant who established the los angeles’s hong kong noodle company.