Bams, cracks, dots, dragons, and winds, it’s the terminology of Mahjong. It might sound like a different language, it’s not as easily understood as go fish, or blackjack, but it’s a language every generation speaks.
“The game has been around at least in the US since the 1920s, there is the Chinese version of mahjong and then there’s the American version of mahjong,“ said Crystal Martin, owner of the Social Parlor.
Mahjong nights draw young crowds to San Francisco bars and restaurants
Crystal is fluent in Mahjong, an ancient Chinese game that has taken the country by storm and it’s all the rage in central Arkansas.
“I got started in mahjong. I just wanted to learn how to play, saw the cute tiles, and wanted to see what it was about, and taught myself how to play,” Martin said…