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Texas Launched a Glitzy Mahjong Revival. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.
In Chinese culture, it’s tradition to wear red on the Lunar New Year to represent joy and good luck. On a recent February evening at San Antonio’s Vino Grotta wine bar, I watched as about thirty women sipped espresso martinis, nibbled flatbread pizzas, and, to celebrate the first evening of the Year of the Horse, played mahjong, the nearly two-hundred-year old Chinese game. It requires skill, but also luck—and it reliably produces joy. The women all wore red.Played at home, at work, or in rooms like this one, the game is everywhere. It’s at Dillard’s, where mahjong tiles have been reconfigured as earrings; at Target, Hobby Lobby, Sam’s Club, and Costco, which sell sets and related paraphernalia; and on the Hallmark Channel, which is releasing…The post Texas Launched a Glitzy Mahjong Revival. Not Everyone Is Happy About It. appeared first on Texas Monthly.