Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company in San Francisco, CA 94108

Getting to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company may be half the fun, as you wander through Chinatown, past the tourist shops, and down an alley that time forgot.

In the tiny old-fashioned factory, which turns out thousands of cookies every day, you can watch three women deftly fold thin discs of cookie dough over slips of paper. The dimly lit setting evokes another century, and two of the women seemed very tired by the time we arrived in the afternoon. But a third passed out thin wafers for a taste, and the kids found the old machines fascinating, and begged to come back another day.