mah-jongg

She calls mah-jongg a superficial, frivolous game, and was a bit taken aback to hear her own 29-year-old daughter, Amy, had taken it up.

' We joke that by the time we are old enough to go on mah-jongg cruises , we 'll clean up because we started young, ' she said .

She also said he had affairs with a number of women and demanded a total of 500, 000 yuan from Mr. Lan to finance mah-jongg games and trips.

But unlike her mother, she can't get enough of mah-jongg.

Today, some are exclusively devoted to mah-jongg, a tile game that is one of the most popular forms of recreation among the Chinese.

Some in her group said that colleagues do a double-take when they hear about their love for mah-jongg.

Finally, I returned to the hotel, where I discovered my floormates click-clacking away at mah-jongg.

The cave is popular among locals, however; they gather each morning to talk and play mah-jongg.

Ultimately, the diagnosis the doctors came up with was "mah-jongg-related deep-vein thrombosis. "

Clad in black and speaking Chinese, the three men entered a mah-jongg parlor hidden in a building on Hester Street in Chinatown.

Although Cantonese tea houses are very noisy, nobody plays cards or mah-jongg.

Mah-jongg players at a Chinatown community organization.

The omen of this year is good, and the lucky comes back on the mah-jongg table.

But there are those in the generation that 'skipped' mah-jongg who cast a cold eye on the new fashion-especially when it hits home.

The gambling, they said, was friendly, low-stakes games of mah-jongg and cards.

The company doesn't sell mah-jongg sets.

Mrs. Singer, 83, is also thrilled: Most of the women in her mah-jongg group are in their 80s and 90s.

Enthusiasm for mah-jongg has waxed and waned over the past century.

Not all mah-jongg games involve gambling; acquaintances often gather to play for fun, with no wagering.

The robberies have chilled the mah-jongg network.

Mah-jongg's not just for grandma anymore.

But as more and more women joined the work force in the 1970s, many no longer had time to play mah-jongg for hours at a stretch.

Mah-jongg is becoming as hip as martinis in New York, but in Hong Kong, this Chinese game is far from 'cool. '

"I like to play mah-jongg on the computer, but you have to wait when school is out, " he said.

One reason why Hong Kong's younger generation isn't playing mah-jongg is the huge investment of time it requires.

The Jiun Bao Mahjong Club is a typical mah-jongg parlor in Hong Kong. It is open 24 hours.