Broken Fortune Cookies 8"x10" Print

Inspired by my family’s Chinese restaurant, I created the fortune cookie painting, “Broken Fortunes.” Our restaurants’ customers said, “If your fortune cookie breaks, your fortune won’t come true”. Depicting the failure of the American dream, I recreated broken fortune cookies with fortunes from my family’s restaurant.

About the artist: Menim Made wa created by Paulina Hoong to bring forward expressive watercolor plants, florals and food and AAPI inspired art into this world. Paulina is a queer, second-gen Chinese-American artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. She draws inspiration from Chinese symbolism, the diasporic Midwestern Asian-American experience, being a restaurant kid, and the natural world.