Gallery: Fortune Cookie Factory Still Rocks Old-School Tech ... In Bed

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    *An employee adds freshly mixed batter to a tub that feeds into the cookie-making machine.*
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    *The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory is hidden on a small side street in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood.*
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    *The batter is clamped shut inside a cooking surface similar to a Japanese *kata* and directed into a tunnel of gas flames.*
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    *A spout adds just enough batter to the cooking surface.*
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    *An employee pulls freshly pressed cookies to insert fortunes and hand-fold them into their signature shape.*
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    *Freshly made fortune cookies await packaging.*
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    *Reporter Amy Zimmerman breaks open a cookie to read her fortune.*
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    *Yoshi Takamura (left) and Joanne Phua buy some fortune cookies during their visit from Las Vegas.*
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    *Fortunes from "adult" cookies are in a tin, kept on the counter. Employees pass them to customers so they can see examples of the naughtier fortunes.*
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    *A pigeon picks at a broken cookie in the entrance of the factory.*
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