While we were in China, we learned to play mahjong. We enjoyed it so much that we all bought mahjong sets. Ours came from the Number 9 Department Store in Shanghai, just down the street from our hotel. Seth and Tara bought four sets after scouring the city for just the right ones.

We played in the hotel on the night that Tod wasn’t feeling well then again the morning before we flew back to Tokyo. And we had a final game together the night before Seth & Tara left Tokyo. Tod’s installed two different mahjong games on the computer and is staying up late at night to practice.

Really good mahjong players move the tiles so quickly they are only barely taking turns. For us, play is pretty slow and careful. I’m sure we’ll speed up once we learn the strategy. Posted by kuri at August 10, 2001 07:55 AM