Five bam. Flower. Two crak. Soap. West. Nine dot. Call – Mah Jongg! Sounds like secret code, but it’s what you might hear when you walk into a room where American Mah Jongg is being played. The game ...

Jan Esquith is new to mah-jongg but not unfamiliar with the Chinese game of chance that in its American form is similar to the card game gin rummy. “When I was growing up in Burbank, I remembered my ...

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 ...

Images of smoky late night mah-jongg dens packed with gamblers slamming down tiles with noisy abandon are best left to the movies. At the Matsumi-Gakuen free school in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, ...

Selma Weiss and three other players concentrate on the racks of plastic tiles before them. Then, the four women take turns picking and discarding the rectangular yellow-and-white mah-jongg tiles on ...

As Judy Greiner strolled through San Francisco’s Chinatown in the mid-20th century, she couldn’t help noticing that the bespectacled Jewish bubbes and tattooed Asian gamblers were eyeing one another ...

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 ...