Howard Huge Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Without fail, every night when driving home when I get to around San Jacinto and Elgin, there is a pungent, mouth watering smell of either cookies or cakes baking and its driving me NUTS! SOMEONE HERE KNOWS WHAT IT IS, TELL ME!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 I think it's a fortune cookie factory... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) Yep, fortune cookie factory, Wonton Food Corp at Caroline and Anita. Very noticeable if you go to 13 Celsius wine bar across the street. There's another fortune cookie factory that you can smell at Dunlavy and Fairview. Edited November 8, 2013 by kylejack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Didn't know there was such a thing in town. Makes perfect sense. When walking around campus at UH I used to love the smell from the coffee plant just upwind during the colder months of the year. Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 Yep, fortune cookie factory, Wonton Food Corp at Caroline and Anita. Very noticeable if you go to 13 Celsius wine bar across the street. There's another fortune cookie factory that you can smell at Dunlavy and Fairview. I think it's a fortune cookie factory...Thanks you guys, yall are awesome!Its been baffling me and my girlfriend for months now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I used to think it was some amazing desert at 13 C which I never tried but no, it's definitely the fortune cookie factory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Originally Phil Rich Fan Co.: http://arch-ive.org/archive/phil-rich/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 ............i want that building 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchCity Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Is it odd that they took out all the windows? I always heard that the people who wrote the fortunes were trapped in the factories, but never thought it could be true until now. Take away the windows, take away their hope for escape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 The cookie smell seems to crank out of another building on the property, this one with the vents: https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.741317,-95.373484&spn=0.002087,0.004128&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=29.741243,-95.373541&panoid=y2JPftN7sk9jAIqVea62yw&cbp=12,346.73,,0,3.45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian0123 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I used to live one block over on the corner of Anita and Austin. I friggin loved that smell of the fortune cookies being made there. They frequently threw bags of cookies into the dumpster (I guess the bad ones) along Caroline. I was soooo tempted to grab a bag but never did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Originally Phil Rich Fan Co.: http://arch-ive.org/archive/phil-rich/ Whenever I see pictures like this I can't help but wonder: what made people think, time and time again, "Gee, let's disfigure this nice building and make it a windowless anonymous block!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Crime, maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Remember the days when Nabisco was on Almeda and Maxwell House roasted coffee on the east end? Both were great sniffing smells. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Crime, maybe. I'd bet insulation and cost. How much can it be for some walls with insulation vs insulated windows, caulk, and all that comes with it? Summer cooling bills must be a lot cheaper. No matter how many windows you have, or don't have security is still a requirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian0123 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 For this building I doubt insulation was a factor. They leave the doors open all the time as forklifts drive in and out. They painted this building the solid white color a couple years ago because the exterior paint was crumbling and they it was starting to get it's fair share of graffitti on the outside. I would bet it was done strictly for security especially since they have people sleeping on that front porch all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 Originally Phil Rich Fan Co.: http://arch-ive.org/archive/phil-rich/ Oh Houston. Breaks my heart to see this time and time again in our city. What is that, art deco? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Whenever I see pictures like this I can't help but wonder: what made people think, time and time again, "Gee, let's disfigure this nice building and make it a windowless anonymous block!" Because it's a business and the aesthetics frequently just aren't as important as having the building configured the way you need, at the cheapest possible cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 The long-time Midtown home of Wonton Food Corp (2902 Caroline St) appears to be shutting down operations soon. The cookie smell is still coming out of the building, so this is still operating as usual for now. Anyone have info? @Urbannizer posted this replat in 2015. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs315 Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Caroline has so much potential. And yet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooklyn173 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 8 hours ago, corbs315 said: Caroline has so much potential. And yet.. I'm curious. A real question. If Caroline reached it's potential, what street would it resemble? Houston or elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs315 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 12 hours ago, Brooklyn173 said: I'm curious. A real question. If Caroline reached it's potential, what street would it resemble? Houston or elsewhere. Great question! I don't have an answer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Regardless of what street it resembles, once all of the road construction is finished and the apartment building going up right now gets finished this is going to be a popular area for the neighborhood. They already have two longtime hospitality spaces in Weights and Measure, and 13 degrees Celsius. The new street improvements will make it a very enviable spot to add walk up traffic in east Midtown. Maybe thats why Wonton is leaving. They probably sold the property to a developer who will build a new mid rise there. Just speculating. You've got HCC on the south end and a straight shot from downtown for lunch business. I guess you could look to the west side of Midtown on Bagby since they did this same thing over there. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 IIRC, Wonton (2902 Caroline) was designed by the same architect who designed the Rich's (now Space) building at 2401 San Jacinto. There's certainly a resemblance between the two buildings. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 On 5/7/2022 at 8:05 PM, Brooklyn173 said: I'm curious. A real question. If Caroline reached it's potential, what street would it resemble? Houston or elsewhere. 19th Street but with better sidewalks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X.R. Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 On 5/9/2022 at 1:00 PM, bobruss said: Maybe thats why Wonton is leaving. They probably sold the property to a developer who will build a new mid rise there. Just speculating. You've got HCC on the south end and a straight shot from downtown for lunch business. I guess you could look to the west side of Midtown on Bagby since they did this same thing over there. In Caroline street's and Midtown's current iteration, a facility like this makes sense in Stafford, but does not make sense where it currently is. I'm assuming bob's comment is what happened. The plan was probably for Wonton to be on the land only as long as it takes to get a great deal. Now they probably got a great deal. I'm going to guess this will eventually get developed into multifamily. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonMidtown Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 I will miss the smell when I ride my bike through that area... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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