I saw this quality Valentine's Day themed product for sale today: chocolate-covered fortune cookies, complete with red "Chinese takeout" shaped box. Each fortune apparently has a romantic theme. The character 愛 (love) is written on the box in reasonably legible traditional script, but for some reason it has been rotated counter-clockwise by 45 degrees.
At least this company knows better than to use a stereotypically pointy "Chinese take-out menu" font (for some examples of this, see here). That being said, I do think it's rather odd that the white tear-drop shaped portion of the yin/yang symbol becomes the "dot" in the letter "I" as well as the apostrophe.
P.S. The origin of the fortune cookie is disputed (see here), but as far as I know it is not actually a Chinese invention.
P.P.S. I have not purchased, nor have I tasted, these cookies.
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I agree that there is dispute and many also believe that it is an American tradition, wwhatever it is, it is a unique tradition that brings often fortune to one'e life.
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