The dragons. The four winds. The calligraphy. The clicking tiles. The sounds and visuals are like something out of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" or "Crazy Rich Asians," but the setting is Huntington ...
Perhaps it was the memorable scene in 2018’s “Crazy Rich Asians” that sparked new interest in an old game. Or, maybe it was about a year later when Julia Roberts revealed to “The Late Show” host ...
The “Project Mah Jongg” exhibit, which originated in New York, is making its way to Jewish museums across America, bringing back memories of bams and craks for generations of Jewish women and ...
Mah-jongg, a game in which players match or sequence sets of tiles, is often referred to as China’s “national pastime.” However, its rise as a globally beloved game has roots somewhere else: in the ...
I remember my mother having weekly Mah Jongg games that rotated among the players’ homes. When it was her turn to host, she put out lots of yummy snacks, and I watched the women laughing and ...
Last February, my friend Fiona texted a question to me and two other friends: Who wants to learn how to play mah-jongg? None of us — a group of millennial moms in our late 30s and early 40s — had ever ...
Four women stare down at bone-white game pieces in their hands. Plastic tiles clatter and clink in the center of the table. The players gaze over wooden racks with plastic arms that hold a ...
A line of children was seen forming outside the entrance to a classroom in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward slightly past 10 a.m. on a recent Sunday. But these eager pupils did not come for a weekend cram ...
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