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Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11744021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. 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Downey's longest cast hit 191 feet. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's Not Just Old Guys\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tournament officials say they've seen a growing interest in fly fishing in women and young people in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's event included a record number of female entries with nine, and the ages of competitors ranged from casters in their early 20s to those in their 80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolfensperger says the beauty of Spey casting is that with enough practice, anyone can learn how to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes skill. Does it take a lot of strength? No. So the women are competing and really, really as good as men,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Knight, who finished third overall in the women’s field, had the longest individual cast in the division, hitting 136 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s becoming more accessible to ladies,\" she said of the sport. \"It's great to be out here and show other people they can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spey-O-Rama women's champs (L-R) Whitney Gould (1st), Mia Sheppard (2nd), Kara Knight (3rd). \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it's about more than just competition. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highlight for many spectators is the Snake Roll, in which the caster loops the rod through the air in a circular motion, animating the line above the water, before drawing back and shooting it forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re making these beautiful sweeping motions that are extended through the rod and the line,” said tournament chair Libby Wolfensperger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s done right, it just becomes a physical extension of the person, and it’s just astounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11744021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the clock times out, the longest of each of the four types of cast are tallied into a single score. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prizes — which this year included glass trophies, handmade fishing reels and bottles of aged Scotch — are awarded for total score as well as the longest cast in men’s, women’s and senior divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champions took home trophies, handmade fishing reels and top-shelf Scotch for their victories on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s men’s champion Gerard Downey of Ireland picked up his sixth Spey-O-Rama title and made the longest cast of the tournament at 191 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior division champion Martin Kiely broke the tournament record for ages 55 and up with a cast of 169 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1200x970.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spey-O-Rama men's champs, (L-R) Tommy Aarkvisla (2nd), Gerard Downey (1st), Zach Zack Williams (3rd). 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"content": "\u003cp>What comes with the check at almost every Chinese restaurant? Fortune cookies. Like orange slices after a blood draw or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731290/how-bill-grahams-nazi-escape-might-explain-his-fillmore-apples\">apples at San Francisco’s Fillmore\u003c/a>, they’re a given. But how did they come to be? Are they really Chinese? And if so, why do they serve them at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.japaneseteagardensf.com/\">Japanese Tea Garden\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11742906\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36697_IMG_0183-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tea cookies and green tea served at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a chilly morning, I meet Steven Pitsenbarger at the front gate of the Tea Garden. He’s a gardener here and a bit of a historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people put the Japanese Tea Garden in the same box as Alcatraz or Fisherman’s Wharf,” Pitsenbarger says. “But we are really a gem that’s for San Francisco — just as much as it’s for the tourists.”\u003cbr>\n[baycuriousbug]\u003cbr>\nHe tells me the garden was originally an exhibit in the\u003ca href=\"http://www.outsidelands.org/1894_midwinter_fair.php\"> California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894, \u003c/a>then tended by a landscape architect named Makoto Hagiwara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an early immigrant from Japan,” says Pitsenbarger. “He came a decade before most Japanese immigrants came. A lot of folks came in the late 1880s and 1890s. But he came in 1878.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagiwara started serving visitors fortune cookies along with green tea in the garden’s tea house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11743019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Makoto Hagiwara and his daughter in 1924.\" width=\"324\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-160x210.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-1020x1337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-915x1200.jpg 915w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut-1920x2517.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36763_aad-2922JPG-qut.jpg 1562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makoto Hagiwara and his daughter in 1924. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The story that I understand is he took a Japanese cookie, senbei, and he got the idea to put a little note in it, and originally started making the cookies by hand here with just a little flat press,” says Pitsenbarger. “They would fold the cookies while they were still fresh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow. So this could be the birthplace of the fortune cookie?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Author Jennifer 8. Lee says of the fortune cookie']‘I like to say that the Japanese invented them, the Chinese popularized them, but the Americans ultimately consume them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t see anything that marked this historical culinary invention until we went to the gift shop. Mounted to the top of a display case are two small black iron presses with long, thin handles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re called kata, and are used to make senbei or Japanese crackers. Inside they’re engraved with an H and an M — inverted they would appear on the cookies as MH for \u003ca href=\"https://hanascape.com/japanese-tea-garden\">Makoto Hagiwara.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you came to the garden while he was managing it, everything had his name on it. Napkins would say M. Hagiwara. There would be pots in the garden with M. Hagiwara … tea pots, tea cups. His name was everywhere, and the fortune cookie is one of those things that helped to spread his popularity,” Pitsenbarger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And make the cookies popular, too. But since each fortune cookie was being made by hand, demand became too much for the Hagiwara family. Makoto asked a local confectionary shop, Benkyodo, to take over making the cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 352px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-861x1200.jpg 861w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benkyodo on San Francisco’s Geary Boulevard in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suyeichi Okamura opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.benkyodocompany.com/\">Benkyodo\u003c/a> in 1906 and after a few moves, it’s located today at Sutter and Buchanan in San Francisco’s Japantown. His grandson, Gary T. Ono, is the family’s historian and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2007/10/31/fortune-cookie/\">written articles\u003c/a> about his family’s connection to the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-160x245.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1020x1564.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-783x1200.jpg 783w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1920x2944.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. Ono’s grandfather, Suyeichi Okamura, opened Benkyodo in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went to visit Ono in Los Angeles, in his apartment in Little Tokyo. A giant foam fortune cookie hangs in the living room, and the fortune poking out of it reads: “Made In Japan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ono drags out a heavy suitcase from a closet and pulls out several kata wrapped in newspaper. They sport the familiar initials: MH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a service person to Makoto Hagiwara,” Ono says. “And advised Hagiwara in converting the taste (of the fortune cookie) to something more palatable to American tastes. So they came up with a vanilla extract flavor that we know today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 203px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This flat-iron press, called a kata, was originally used to make fortune cookies for the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. The initials MH stand for creator Makoto Hagiwara. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says Benkyodo helped develop a machine to mass produce the cookies for the garden, sometime around 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. Ono holds two kata from his grandfather’s bakery, Benkyodo. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Ono isn’t the only one to make family claims to the origins of the fortune cookie: A few Chinese companies have also claimed the invention, as has another Japanese sweet-maker in Los Angeles called \u003ca href=\"http://www.fugetsu-do.com/history.htm\">Fugetsu-Do\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Kito owns Fugetsu-Do, just down the street from Gary Ono in Los Angeles. Brian’s grandfather opened Fugetsu-Do in 1903, three years before Benkyodo opened in San Francisco. And Gary says Brian heard similar stories about his grandfather creating the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were never confrontational about it or argumentative. We didn’t know precisely that our grandparents did this or did that,” Ono says. “[Brian] even said, ‘Well, if it wasn’t my grandfather, I hope it’s your grandfather.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Jhmz2Al_pjA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author Jennifer 8. Lee says you can probably trace the history of fortune cookies in America back to L.A. and San Francisco. But as a concept, they go back to Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Japan they’re called tsujiura senbei or bell crackers,” says Lee, who traced the history of the American fortune cookie in her book, “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures In the World of Chinese Food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee writes about Yasuko Nakamachi, a Japanese researcher whom she met through Gary Ono. Nakamachi was investigating the connection between the fortune cookies she saw in New York with a cracker made in Kyoto. She unearthed a copy of a woodblock print from 1878 of a Japanese man grilling fortune cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 515px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg 515w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Japanese woodblock print showing fortune cookies being grilled dates back to 1878. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy; Gary Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Around the shrine in downtown Kyoto, there are actually a bunch of families that still make ‘fortune cookies’ in the Japanese tradition,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they’re actually bigger and browner. They’re made with miso paste and sesame, so much nuttier than the American versions, which tend to be yellow and buttery, reflecting the American palate,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cookies also have fortunes, but not inside. Instead they’re pinched in the fold. They look almost exactly the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how did this American adaptation of a Japanese cracker become so associated with Chinese restaurants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Japanese first came to the U.S., a lot of them actually ran Chinese restaurants, because back in the 1910s and 1920s Americans were not eating sushi,” says Lee. “You had Japanese opening Chinese restaurants because that was familiar, with chop suey and chow mein and egg fu yung.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='golden-state-plate' label='More stories from the Golden State Plate series']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this mix of Japanese families opening Chinese restaurants, they began serving fortune cookies as a form of dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back then, they were not called fortune cookies, they were called fortune tea cakes, which is actually a better reflection of their name in Japanese,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bakeries like Benkyodo and Fugetso-Do manufactured fortune cookies for decades until 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering people of Japanese descent into internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortune cookie makers were among those interned. During World War II, Chinese restaurants surged in popularity and began manufacturing cookies “en masse,” Lee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to say that the Japanese invented them, the Chinese popularized them, but the Americans ultimately consume them,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Ono’s family was lucky. After being released from the camps, they resumed their business in San Francisco and reclaimed their property. But others weren’t: Many Japanese confectionaries stopped making the cookies after the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Ono’s family connection to the fortune cookie lives on at the \u003ca href=\"https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2010/07/origins-of-a-fortune-cookie.html\">Smithsonian\u003c/a>‘s National Museum of American History, where three of Benkyodo’s katas now reside.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11742907 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36705_IMG_0191-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the fortune cookies served at the Japanese Tea Garden? They now come from \u003ca href=\"http://www.meemeebakery.com/\">Mee Mee Bakery\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t see anything that marked this historical culinary invention until we went to the gift shop. Mounted to the top of a display case are two small black iron presses with long, thin handles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re called kata, and are used to make senbei or Japanese crackers. Inside they’re engraved with an H and an M — inverted they would appear on the cookies as MH for \u003ca href=\"https://hanascape.com/japanese-tea-garden\">Makoto Hagiwara.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you came to the garden while he was managing it, everything had his name on it. Napkins would say M. Hagiwara. There would be pots in the garden with M. Hagiwara … tea pots, tea cups. His name was everywhere, and the fortune cookie is one of those things that helped to spread his popularity,” Pitsenbarger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And make the cookies popular, too. But since each fortune cookie was being made by hand, demand became too much for the Hagiwara family. Makoto asked a local confectionary shop, Benkyodo, to take over making the cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 352px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-1020x1421.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1-861x1200.jpg 861w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36751_Benkyodo-outsiide-retouch-300-copy-qut-1.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benkyodo on San Francisco’s Geary Boulevard in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suyeichi Okamura opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.benkyodocompany.com/\">Benkyodo\u003c/a> in 1906 and after a few moves, it’s located today at Sutter and Buchanan in San Francisco’s Japantown. His grandson, Gary T. Ono, is the family’s historian and has \u003ca href=\"http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2007/10/31/fortune-cookie/\">written articles\u003c/a> about his family’s connection to the fortune cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-800x1227.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-160x245.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1020x1564.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-783x1200.jpg 783w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1-1920x2944.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36752_Suyeichi-Portrait-qut-1.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. Ono’s grandfather, Suyeichi Okamura, opened Benkyodo in 1906. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy: Gary T. Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I went to visit Ono in Los Angeles, in his apartment in Little Tokyo. A giant foam fortune cookie hangs in the living room, and the fortune poking out of it reads: “Made In Japan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ono drags out a heavy suitcase from a closet and pulls out several kata wrapped in newspaper. They sport the familiar initials: MH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a service person to Makoto Hagiwara,” Ono says. “And advised Hagiwara in converting the taste (of the fortune cookie) to something more palatable to American tastes. So they came up with a vanilla extract flavor that we know today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 203px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36718_IMG_0808-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This flat-iron press, called a kata, was originally used to make fortune cookies for the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. The initials MH stand for creator Makoto Hagiwara. \u003ccite>(Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says Benkyodo helped develop a machine to mass produce the cookies for the garden, sometime around 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11742881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36723_IMG_0813-qut-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary T. 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We didn’t know precisely that our grandparents did this or did that,” Ono says. “[Brian] even said, ‘Well, if it wasn’t my grandfather, I hope it’s your grandfather.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Jhmz2Al_pjA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Jhmz2Al_pjA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Author Jennifer 8. Lee says you can probably trace the history of fortune cookies in America back to L.A. and San Francisco. But as a concept, they go back to Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Japan they’re called tsujiura senbei or bell crackers,” says Lee, who traced the history of the American fortune cookie in her book, “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures In the World of Chinese Food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee writes about Yasuko Nakamachi, a Japanese researcher whom she met through Gary Ono. Nakamachi was investigating the connection between the fortune cookies she saw in New York with a cracker made in Kyoto. She unearthed a copy of a woodblock print from 1878 of a Japanese man grilling fortune cookies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 515px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743033\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut.jpg 515w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36753_woodblock-senbei-cooking-copy_jpg_515x515_detail_q85-qut-160x117.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Japanese woodblock print showing fortune cookies being grilled dates back to 1878. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy; Gary Ono)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Around the shrine in downtown Kyoto, there are actually a bunch of families that still make ‘fortune cookies’ in the Japanese tradition,” says Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they’re actually bigger and browner. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Golden Gate Park Polo Field in San Francisco is probably best known as the home to music festivals like Outside Lands and massive concerts like those during the Summer of Love in 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Cliff Bargar has been to many of those music festivals, which made him wonder if there was ever actual polo, with horses, played at its eponymous field.\u003cbr>\n[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003cbr>\n“If polo was happening, I’d probably check it out at least once,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alas, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department said there hasn’t been polo at the Polo Field in a very long time. Instead, it’s mostly home to youth and adult soccer leagues and music festivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fear not, polo fans. There is a thriving polo community in San Francisco. Cliff and I just had to go about 5 miles east to Dolores Park to find it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We walked up a set of stairs from 18th Street between Dolores and Church streets, across the street from Mission High School. On our left were tennis courts. And on our right was a multi-use blue court that at that moment had six people riding around on their bikes and hitting a small ball with mallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134147568\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule book is \u003ca href=\"https://nahbpa.gitbooks.io/nah-ruleset-2017/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17 pages long\u003c/a>, but the basics are pretty simple: teams of three play against each other, and the first team to score five goals wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Upmeyer started playing bike polo five years ago when he was a bike courier in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was going on a bike on my regular route, and I ended up finding bike polo just down in the Mission,” Upmeyer said. “It looked interesting, so I stopped by, and not 30 seconds went by and they were like, ‘Hey, come on try this out.’ I was kind of addicted after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652207\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Upmeyer in Folsom at the 2016 North-American Hardcourt Bike Polo championships.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29587_28275718_551906775173402_491768129_o-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Upmeyer in Folsom at the 2016 North American Hardcourt Bike Polo championships. \u003ccite>(Nhia Vang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said it was “scary as hell” at first, but he eventually got the hang of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game looks more like hockey than it does horse polo. For instance, in horse polo, players aren’t allowed to cut someone off who has the ball because it would be dangerous for both the rider and the horse. But that’s fair game in bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The players even wear hockey or lacrosse gloves to protect their hands, in addition to other protective gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us have a real job that would not like us to break our fingers, so protecting your hands is probably the most important aspect of it,” Upmeyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike polo has its \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnkbikepolo.com/History-of-Bike-Polo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">origins\u003c/a> as a grass sport founded in Ireland in the late 19th century. In 1908, it was featured as an exhibition sport in the London Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardcourt bike polo, like what’s played in Dolores Park, got its start in Seattle in the late 20th century and quickly spread. Today, it’s played competitively all over the world, with the 2017 World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship being played in Lexington, Kentucky, last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Upmeyer’s money, the court in Dolores Park is one of the best in North America. It was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/23/san-franciscos-bike-polo-league-finds-a-home-at-new-dolores-park/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">built in 2015\u003c/a> with sports like hardcourt bike polo in mind, and you can find \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanfranciscobikepolo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pickup games\u003c/a> here several nights a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of bike polo players are kind of renegade,” he said, “so we’re usually trying to steal a tennis court or a basketball court and it’s hard to find time. 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[I’ve made] friendships with people that I’ll hang out with for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So should we expect to see our question asker, Cliff Bargar, pedaling into a game any time soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find this a lot more interesting than horse polo, to be honest,” he said, “[but] I’m not sure yet if I’ll be back with my own bike … but I’ll definitely consider it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For instance, in horse polo, players aren’t allowed to cut someone off who has the ball because it would be dangerous for both the rider and the horse. But that’s fair game in bike polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The players even wear hockey or lacrosse gloves to protect their hands, in addition to other protective gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us have a real job that would not like us to break our fingers, so protecting your hands is probably the most important aspect of it,” Upmeyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike polo has its \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnkbikepolo.com/History-of-Bike-Polo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">origins\u003c/a> as a grass sport founded in Ireland in the late 19th century. In 1908, it was featured as an exhibition sport in the London Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardcourt bike polo, like what’s played in Dolores Park, got its start in Seattle in the late 20th century and quickly spread. 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