From KQED. It's Youth Takeover Week here at KQED. That's the public media station where the Bay Curious Podcast is made.

So all week, students from around the Bay Area are helping to make our programs.

Bay Curious is getting help from a high schooler named Kira.

She's got a question for us, so we set her to a tiny alleyway in San Francisco to help get the show started.

I'm Kira O'Hara Hines. I'm a senior at Santa Clara High School.

We are at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie factory in Chinatown and there's this huge machine

that takes up the entire shop. I think it's the Fortune Cookie machine. The dough

comes out and is squished between these two plates and then some people are taking the hot dough and folding it into a fortune cookie and putting the fortunes inside.

We're here because I heard that San Francisco was the home of the original fortune cookie and I was interested in the story behind

it. That's where we can help.

I'm Olivia Allen Price.

Today on Vacurious, we're exploring the surprising origins of the fortune cookie.

How's it taste? Delicious. Delicious.

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Fortune cookies appear at the end of almost any meal you might have at a Chinese restaurant,

but where did they really come from?

Susie Rachio brings us the latest installment in our Golden State Plate series,

about iconic dishes that got their start right here in California.

It's a chilly morning at another San Francisco tourist attraction, the Japanese tea garden in Golden Gate Park.

I'm here with one of the gardeners, Stephen Pittsenbarger.

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