May 8, 2012 6:30 AM

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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