When I visit my family in Torrance, we usually play a lot of mahjong and this visit was no different. My brother killed us one night with a limit hand right off the bat. It was tragic… But still a lot of fun.

Source

My parents’ mahjong set is getting plenty of use this holiday season! It’s so fun playing with family. We have lots of silly rules and call the different tiles different names. For instance, the 8 bamboo tile is called “Crazy Rich” (from the movie Crazy Rich Asians), the one circles is called “Magic Carpet”, and the 9 characters is called “Fish Hook” (because of the shape of the kanji). Is it strange, or does every family have their own mahjong traditions?

Source

Although I have only won one game over two nights, I’m enjoying playing mahjong with the family. It’s so fun!

Source

こんばんは。How’s it going?

One of our Christmas traditions is having nice big Jamaican food feast. Sometimes we enjoy it on Christmas Day, but this year it was Christmas Eve. Either way, it’s always delicious, with the main dish everyone is looking forward to being the curry crab. The sauce is my mom’s variant of Jamaican Run-down, with coconut milk, curry, and other magical spices and the crab legs go perfectly with it.

Besides the crab, we also had stew peas, rice and peas, jerk-chicken, jerk pork, callaloo greens, macaroni/potato salad, and plantain. In addition, my mom prepared a dish we don’t often have: Escovitch fish. Super yummy!

After dinner, we played Mahjong, which is another family tradition of ours. Of course, we play anytime we can, not just Christmas Eve.

I hope you had a nice day!

またね～

Source