mahjong resources

How to Play Guide 

• Mahjong pocket guide

  • Wonderful downloadable freebie file by my friend Lili Chin

  • + mahjong merch!

• Mahjong Basic Picture Guide

• Cheat Sheets (Victoria Mahjong Club)

• Cheat Sheet (Play Mahjong SF)

• Refresher on Mahjong fundamentals?

  • Watch this 10-minute video

Documentaries, books & other writings

• Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora​

  • Mahjong Project

• Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

  • Author's presentation at USF

• Everyone’s Playing Mahjong
  —But Whose Stories Are Getting Told?

• Mahjong, Mah Jongg and Movies about Mahjong(g)?

• Pong: The Meaning Behind Mahjong (mini doc)
   

Where to Learn and Play in the SF Bay Area & Beyond?

• 13 Orphans Lounge - Oakland

• Alameda Mahjong Social Club - email Jean at jmelgar.mj@gmail.com

• Asian Art Museum (Sundays and Thursday nights)

• Bay Area Mahjong Meet Up

• Belly Restaurant - Oakland

• Ferry Building - SF

• Marin Mahjong

• Mr. Mahjong's - SF

• Mo Pai Mahjong Club - SF

• Mahjong Finder

Riichi

• Pacific Mahjong League - Fremont

• A Beginner's Guide to Riichi Mahjong

• Riichi Mahjong Glossary

• Yaku & Scoring Sheets
   

Where you can get mahjong sets locally?

• Mahjong Project's: Where to buy a mahjong set?

• Kingstone Bookstore in Pacific East Mall, Richmond

  • ( 33 & 36mm tiles | $85 & $95)

• Oakland Chinese Bookstore (behind the counter | $75)

• Online suggestion: Yellow Mountain Imports. Est 2004.

• Your local Chinatown!
   

Where you can find me?

• Teance

• 13 Orphans Lounge (Various | 6-10pm)

• Oakland United Beerworks Taproom (6/25)

• BeChinatown Night Market (6/12, 7/10, 8/14, 9/11, 10/9/26
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Mahjong Merch by small biz artists?

• Lili Chin illustration and gifts

• Sunnie Creative

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