I play American, Chinese Mahjong Competition Rules, and Japanese Mah-Jongg mostly. Once in a while I even get to travel to Japan, China, and Europe. Click on the links below to see my mah-jongg friends.

• My 1st Mah-Jongg Adventure in Japan
• More Adventures in Japan (Japanese mah-jongg, of course)
• My former weekly Saturday group (American mah-jongg)
• Little Tokyo no tomodachi (Japanese mah-jongg)
• My weekly Thursday group (American mah-jongg)
• Mah-Jongg Fun Days (American mah-jongg)
• Vega Mah-Jongg Parlor (Japanese mah-jongg) - ENGLISH
• Vega Mah-Jongg Parlor (Japanese mah-jongg) - JAPANESE
• Janyou no tomodachi (Japanese mah-jongg)
• My Excellent Hong Kong Mah-Jongg Adventure!
• My Excellent Smithsonian Adventure!
• At Alice's Restaurant (American mah-jongg)
• Farmer's Market (New Style mah-jongg)
• Pacific Asia Museum (Chinese Official mah-jongg)
• The World Championship in MJ 2002 (Chinese Official mah-jongg)
• Riichi-ing out in Shibuya
• A visit with Taiwanese author Dragon Chang
• The Marjorie Troum tournament at the Flamingo in Las Vegas
• The 2003 JMPA Friendship Tour in Los Angeles
• Sightseeing in Seoul, S. Korea (2003)
• More Seoul Sightseeing (2006)
• The 2003 China Majiang Open Championship in Hainan
• Forbidden City (Beijing, China)
• J.R. Fitch, creator of Hong Kong Mahjong (San Francisco)
• Walter Wlodarski, founder of Le cercle de mah-jong de Montréal
• The 2005 Open European Mahjong Championship in Nijmegen
• the 2005 Chinese Majiang Championship outside Beijing.
• the 2006 Chinese Majiang Championship in Tianjin.
• the 2007 Open European Mahjong Championship in Copenhagen.
• the 2007 World Mahjong Championship in E Mei Shan.
• My Mumbai Mahjong Adventure, 2009.
• Tokyo Kaikan Tournament, 2009.

In May of 2002 the Homestead Museum ( http://www.homesteadmuseum.org/) held an event featuring music, garb, and trends of the Roaring Twenties. I went and spoke on mah-jongg as it was played in the 1920s.

Here I am, teaching mah-jongg in my great-grandpa's bowler hat!

Here I am again. That hat looks kinda silly on me, doesn't it...

"No doubt about it - I gotta get me another hat!"
- Bullwinkle J. Moose

Photos courtesy Craig Chyrchel, Homestead Museum.

In March 2003 I coached players in advanced strategy at Pebble Beach in Monterey, California.

This is (L-R) Tony, Jami, and Julie. All put up with me in good humor. At least I wasn't wearing that darned hat this time. The munchies were scrumptious!
By the way, Jami is TV actess Jami Gertz. When she came to sit at my table, I kept looking quizzically at her, thinking "her face looks familiar." She cleared it up for me pretty soon and we just had some good mah-jongg fun.

© 2002-2008 Tom Sloper