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Personally, I didn't call them "Chinese" fortune cookies. I'll try to borrow a digital camera sometime since I don't have one of my own.

Didn't say you did. Just thought I'd throw that tidbit of information in.

I think there's a lot of things like that where some sort of food doesn't actually come from the country people think it's from. For instance, Caesar salad was actually invented in Mexico. And I believe pasta was invented by the Chinese.

Yup. That's right. The Chinese had pasta first then the Italians stole it! (just kidding) I heard that a Caeser salad in Mexico has raw egg in it.

Fortune cookies are in fact similar to the ancient mooncake. In the Yuan Dynasty (coincidentally, this dynasty is rumored to be the time of Mulan), the Mongolians ruled China. Some rebels put a piece of paper saying "kill the Mongolians at night" in some round-shaped cakes ("mooncakes") and distributed them to the villagers during Mid-Autumn Festival. The villagers did as told and by the next morning, a lot of Mongolians were killed. The Yuan Dynasty soon ended. Now in present day we still have this kind of "mooncake" in China but of course, there aren't any rebel paper slips.

BTW, speaking of pasta, here in Hong Kong there is a restaurant called Spaghetti House and on the menu it says:

"[pasta] There is a saying that the Chinese taught the Italians, and the Italians taught the French. Of course, never say that to a Frenchman."

DisneyChris wrote:Fortune cookies are in fact similar to the ancient mooncake. In the Yuan Dynasty (coincidentally, this dynasty is rumored to be the time of Mulan), the Mongolians ruled China. Some rebels put a piece of paper saying "kill the Mongolians at night" in some round-shaped cakes ("mooncakes") and distributed them to the villagers during Mid-Autumn Festival. The villagers did as told and by the next morning, a lot of Mongolians were killed. The Yuan Dynasty soon ended. Now in present day we still have this kind of "mooncake" in China but of course, there aren't any rebel paper slips.

BTW, speaking of pasta, here in Hong Kong there is a restaurant called Spaghetti House and on the menu it says:

"[pasta] There is a saying that the Chinese taught the Italians, and the Italians taught the French. Of course, never say that to a Frenchman."

That is very clever! Thanks for the background information, it was very educational and I enjoyed the knowledge. Next time I visit HK, I will look up that establishment.

Nedakh wrote:

DisneyChris wrote:Fortune cookies are in fact similar to the ancient mooncake. In the Yuan Dynasty (coincidentally, this dynasty is rumored to be the time of Mulan), the Mongolians ruled China. Some rebels put a piece of paper saying "kill the Mongolians at night" in some round-shaped cakes ("mooncakes") and distributed them to the villagers during Mid-Autumn Festival. The villagers did as told and by the next morning, a lot of Mongolians were killed. The Yuan Dynasty soon ended. Now in present day we still have this kind of "mooncake" in China but of course, there aren't any rebel paper slips.

BTW, speaking of pasta, here in Hong Kong there is a restaurant called Spaghetti House and on the menu it says:

"[pasta] There is a saying that the Chinese taught the Italians, and the Italians taught the French. Of course, never say that to a Frenchman."

That is very clever! Thanks for the background information, it was very educational and I enjoyed the knowledge. Next time I visit HK, I will look up that establishment.

I totlay agree thats why I love it here you can alwys come and learn something new . So thank you everyone for the information you contribute .

yes, just like café is a French word...

*hides from anaël


For some reason, even tho I'm not usually interested in this kind of extra stuff/merchadise, Mulan is different!



Does living in Orange County help?
*envy grrr

It doesn't matter where you live. It's just promotional stuff they send press people. Some of it is stuff from the goodie bag given out at the DVD presentation in August ( http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00002216.html ) but some of it is just stuff they sent out of the blue. I'm going to try to borrow a digital camera over the weekend so I can let you guys see this stuff.

Now in present day we still have this kind of "mooncake" in China but of course, there aren't any rebel paper slips

u never know, there might be some promotional vote BUSH and vote KERRY cookies coming your way soon

Okay, here we go:

http://www.christianziebarth.com/mulanmerchandise.html


I forgot to get a picture of the very nice press release they sent out but it basically looks just like the video cover is going to.

Very cool, Christian! Thanks for sharing the pics! If they do neat stuff for all their major releases, I bet you've built a great collection of it.

I don't know why they've only sent stuff for Mulan. Kind of weird, but kind of cool too I guess in a way. They did send a little toy for Home on the Range that made the sound of a cow-mooing and they sent the Brother Bear press release in a bear fur envelope, but they've really gone all out for Mulan. They didn't even send anything special for Aladdin except that the press release was in a nice envelope rather than in the generic blue BVHE envelope. I do have two interesting Aladdin items that I got in the goodie bag from the premiere that I'll be posting pictures of here sometime.

That's some cool stuff. How did you get it? I like that Mushu kite.

Thanks a lot for posting, Christian! Lots of cool stuff indeed.

It's great to see Disney is putting this much effort on this release. Let's hope the same happens to "Pocahontas" and "Lilo & Stitch".

Today I stopped by my local Toys R Us and reserved Lady and the Tramp because I'd get a cool plushie set that I thought would be cool to give to my sister. But then now that I look back at it, would the DVD and the plushie set both be worth $20?

Sure it would..it just depends on how good the plush looks.

I think it sounds like a good deal. I think I paid that for Bambi at my local Best Buy and got a free plushie of Thumper that was really cute. I thought it was worth it. I may have to check my Toys R Us to see if they are offering the same thing here in Oklahoma City.

"plushie set" as in more than one plush?
That's pretty cool! Wonder if BB will be giving away something knowing that TOYS r US is doing that?..