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photography Con Poulos

fortune cookie place settings

Fortune cookies make easy, inexpensive and fun place settings. Write your guests’ names on squares of hand-torn paper and slot it into the gap in the cookie. After everyone has taken their seat, they can break open the cookie and read their fortune; it’s a great way to get everyone talking at the table. Buy them from Asian grocers and supermarkets.

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  • works great with our cosy asian menu
  • works great with our asian nibbles menu
  • this style idea is from instant entertaining (HarperCollins, 2006)