Hong Kong Mahjong with My Mother in Law - Tips and Tricks

[@CantoneseCorner]

Thanks for watching with me! I hope you enjoyed it and if you have any questions or suggestions for future mahjong videos, let me know!

[@treehann]

You are fortunate to have such a great relationship with your mother in law. Thank you for bringing her on and making this video!

[@viann5603]

I’m a 13 years old hk kid and I’m learning how to play mahjong from your videos😂 I love your videos✨;3

[@CantoneseCorner]

omg that's awesome! Thank you so much!! I know a lot of people don't believe in kids learning to play because of the $$ aspect, but it's SUCH a fun game to play with friends. I hope you have fun playing and will win with many sahp sāam yīu (13 orphan) hands! 👏👏

[@HOLYMOTHERGOD]

Best tutorial for westerners. Thank you. You are a genius you know all the slangs I can’t imagine you can😂

[@tungchungchan]

Your husband and in-law is so lucky to have you😉

[@ANEWCreationLimited]

I'm really enjoying your videos - especially these mahjong ones. I recently got invited to my neighbor's home (I live in a village near CUHK) and, while we had a fun time, I definitely need to improve to make it more exciting (and so I don't constantly lose. Haha). This also helps me improve my Cantonese - I appreciate how you balance both Cantonese and English in these videos - it makes it easier for me to familiarize myself with the new vocab and phrases.

[@carolithe]

This has been so useful for me! My dad, mum, aunties, and my husband's family have been trying to teach me mahjong for years - they've always tried to teach me via the Chicken variation, which has always left me super confused 😅 I'm Australian-born and pretty much Western-raised, l've been learning so much about Cantonese from your channel. Your way of explaining things has been so much easier for me to understand, thank you so much for your videos!

[@jjvidald]

Hello, just last week I bought a beautiful Chinese mah jong game online and I am waiting for it. I am reading and studying the rules of Chinese mah jong. I really appreciate this video, the enthusiasm and love for teaching put into it. My greetings to you and your mother-in-law... I hope to soon have my mah jong in hand to enjoy with the family.

[@metamii]

Hey I just want to say that I really really enjoy watching these and learning! It’s so great to see mother and daughter in laws getting along so well and also learning so many great mah jong tips! I need to play more and practice straightening tiles as fast as your mother in law!! She’s got smart fingers!

[@CantoneseCorner]

I know, right?! She's amazing ... like second nature to move her fingers in the way to get the tiles in the right direction and together, then flip them over like that. 🤩 Thanks SO much for liking the videos, and yes, I got lucky in the mom-in-law department -- she's had to put up with a lot (haha) and has always been there for us. I hope it's not too long before I can get back and play with her some more!

[@HM-ot2hr]

Your Mother in Law is so gorgeous ! Thanks for her awesome tips and your great videos :)

[@CoolsBreeze]

Your mother in law looks so young! And I love playing Mahjong, it gets really addictive lol.

[@KK-yu2kn]

I’m born in HK I remember when I was young everyday I watched my grandmother play the mahjong I feel very funny and good for the memory

[@CantoneseCorner]

I'm so glad this could bring back good memories for you! :)

[@spongebobby188]

Your mother in law reminds me of my math teacher in secondary school teaching us advanced calculus! 🤣

[@CantoneseCorner]

🤣🤣🤣 that's so funny! I'll let her know :)

[@368chen]

I love the game of mahjong. The sound of shuffling or discarding the tiles, the strategy of outsmarting your opponents, and a bit of luck never hurts.

[@streetsmart73]

Just reminds me of my childhood days in HK where my late father literally taught his children the intrinsics of mahjong.

[@oldguy1958hk]

May i thank you n yr mum in law for this delightful session in this depressive atmosphere. No doubt sparrow is much much more interesting than bridge.

[@SHUNJIMAT]

Hi love your program, could you create a video playing with jokers please ? Thank you 🙏

[@domeshtan1677]

Head spinning a bit. Yet another Mah Jong variation. I never heard of taking out a suit or winds with less players. I started with a book years back. (Mah Jong Handbook). Just dug it up again the other day after many years. I played a few PC versions but mostly play Nintendo Famicom and Super Famicom versions. (They all play the Japanese Riichi variation and I have well over a dozen different ones. Some play 2 player, mostly 4 player but a couple can be set for 3 player.) So some questions on your variation... Is there any "dead wall" at the other end? (14 tiles left at the end. If nobody wins by that time the hand is a draw.) Also it looks like there is no kan or kong in your version? (Not sure of the terminology for another language but basically 4 of a kind of any tile). If a 4 of a kind is allowed do you pick a tile from the dead wall? (Opposite end). When breaking the wall with the dice on a 3 player game you are still counting 4 seat positions but if it lands on the unused seat it goes to the next one? Is there a point of discarded tiles where the hand is considered a draw? (Trying to find out more with 2 player variations. I've seen one version end after 36 discards (18 for each player). 2 other two player cartridge versions end after 40 discards. (20 per player). I have tried American Mahjong with the Joker tiles but with the "charlston" tile swapping at the begining, possible 5 of a kinds and very picky hands i could not get into it as much. Riichi mahjong is my favorite so far. Learning about a required "yaku" to be able to win really changes things. (Special criteria your hand needs to go out. Some possibilities... Concealed hand, all simples (2 thru 8 tiles only), a pung of dragons, a pung of a wind of the round, a pung of your own wind, 2 identical sequences, all one suit...) It goes on and on. A bit difficult to learn at first but keeps you from putting together "anything" to win. Also a dora tile revealed for extra bonus points for certain tiles in your hand. Im waiting on a book on Riichi mahjong (mainly for the scoring as the cartridge versions figure out the points for you). Same for watching your videos. Yet another variation to learn. So many out there. Thanks for showing yet another way to play.

[@evroadwarrior8408]

A refresher for sure after years of absence from a mahjong table 😆

[@janineconway73]

Can I ask where you got your mahjong set from. I love the colour and the size.

[@johnlemmo681]

I just found this. Been playing for the past 2 years at least once a month with my Chinese friends. My biggest problem is still understanding the scoring system, which has a ton of variables.

[@fernlow4235]

Thank you for these videos. I am revising how to play mahjong and improving my cantonese at the same time.

[@kristielam]

Nice video, interesting conversation I don’t know how to play but this video helps😸

[@nancyt602]

Thank you so much for the tips at the end! Will have to try next time I play :)

[@hillmoon9833]

Happy hour🤭🤫🤔🤗😜😝😘😍😂😅🤣

[@theresatang8467]

Awesome👍👍. Thank you for the subtitles.

[@CantoneseCorner]

You're welcome!

[@mahjonglun]

奶奶太可愛💗

[@SSL_SSL]

蘇珊你好！真係好耐冇見啦 ! 你奶奶睇起嚟好年輕。 你老公嘅媽咪教你打麻打得好好。 我希望你贏多過輸嘅次數。 風牌: 東 南 西 北。三元牌 ... 雞和 一番 二番 三番 四番 ! 你現在喺邊度啊 ? 返到香港還係喺美國東海岸？ 別擔心，要開心 ！ 祝你一切順利。下次見。

[@CantoneseCorner]

Hi there!!! So nice to hear from you, as always! My mom-in-law is so young and young at heart, which makes it fun for everyone. I miss her, and editing this video was kinda hard since I didn't think I'd be leaving so soon after we recorded it, yet that's what happened. So yes, I'm back on the east coast of the USA for the time being -- trying not to worry too much. Thanks for the well wishes and all the best in return. I hope everything is going well, all things considered with the new outbreak and now threat of lockdowns again. Sigh... :(

[@itsme6026]

wow, your mother in law is so young

[@Bevis888]

Mahjong is so fun, my mum is very familiar to play it 😉👍

[@JC-vr4iu]

I don’t know how to play Mahjong even I am a HongKongers🤣 I like the translation of 雞糊Chicken hand 🤣 Thanks for teaching.

[@fl4435]

Hi, I have watched a few videos of yours and I I think I like to see the sample of your book but I can't find it. Could you please provide me any link I can go to see. Thank you for your videos. I like them a lot.

[@niti0109]

Can you please provide a link to where you got these tiles? I'm interested in buying this set as well. Thank you! :)

[@CantoneseCorner]

Hi there! I’m so sorry but this set I got from my mother-in-law many years ago and my most recent set I got from the mahjong shop in Hung Hom. I’m really not sure where to get one elsewhere …. I wish I had a better recommendation but short of the mom and pop shops in HK I don’t know where to go. I would recommend when buying though that you make sure the tiles are HK standard size - it is my understanding that tiles from Taiwan can be smaller (my NY Yankees set is and that was bought in Taiwan) and I also have a slightly larger set than HK standard size. Also make sure you get the set you want in terms of English notation on the winds and specials or not. I teach people to play by putting different colored circle stickers on to differentiate if they don’t know the Chinese characters- same for the character suit. So that way I don’t need to get a set with English letters and numbers on them. I wish you luck and happy playing! 🀄️

[@fernlow4235]

@@CantoneseCorner My mother lives in Hung Hom. I also bought my set of tiles from Hung Hom, also green in colour, in mid 80s, early 90s. If you are outside HK, try chinese stores.

[@kurlexchoi]

Although I haven't been playing Mahjong for a very long time way before the COVID, one of my peers told me the rules have changed. Based from what I knew back then, the player discarded the cube don't pay for everybody but has to pay the full price of the points or double to the winner of the round while the other two players only pay 50% or full price each. If a player selected the cube from the stacks to win that round, then everyone has to pay the same complete price of the points earned. One player may consider for others by sacrifice to ensure the other two players don't lose too much money to the winner, but for those that were rivals and don't like each others that much would allow the winner to select the bullseye cube off the stacks just to feel a little better knowing that you don't suffer alone.

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

I play on playing with my brother, mother and step father tomorrow. None of them have ever even touched the original Mahjong. All they know is the "memory mahjong" that used to be installed on Windows back in the day. I will start them off by just playing without points and just getting down the 4x3 and a pair way of playing, before I will even begin to think of adding the point system and the requirements to win. I already know that when I get started on explaining those to them, they would 100% quit right then and there. In today's day and age it's really sad how little memory and energy people have to learn new things.

[@urbanhunter81]

im chinese but i cannot cannot play mahjong! its too complicated !

[@sceng2784]

I just want to add a chicken hand is without your seated flower and if you dont self pick your winning card

[@MayLily]

No wonder you're soo good in Cantonese- you probably practice a lot with your husband and his family over the years, lol. I'm assuming you met your husband in Hong Kong.

[@HOLYMOTHERGOD]

you are so smart being a westerner you know the trick of this game. Seniors like to play this game to kill time also to train their mind of logic while some are so addicted who want to make money from gambling. I personally enjoy the western way of lifestyle, quiet and relax, not this type of activity especially at home.

[@andyso81]

You remind me of my mom’s teaching me Mahjong when I was really young. 😄

[@kamChai]

原來你先生係香港人！😊

[@CantoneseCorner]

🤩

[@spongebobby188]

Omg...I only just made the connection...your mother in law is Chinese so your husband must be Chinese too! I never thought about it before. 🤭👍

[@CantoneseCorner]

@@spongebobby188 😂😂😂

[@sianke1991]

3:41 special tiles... Does that mean winds and dragons?

[@CantoneseCorner]

Yes, it does :) I just call them "special" although yes in English they're properly referred to as the winds and dragons. I'll try and remember that next time!

[@katherinechan3785]

❤

[@ccuuttww]

麻雀係解決婆媳糾紛最好途徑 依家其實麻雀館有開好多後生女仔去打兩舖

[@CantoneseCorner]

If I understand you correctly, perhaps the best example in cinema is the mahjong scene in Crazy Rich Asians between Rachel (not yet a daughter-in-law, but close!) and Eleanor? IMHO, that scene is sheer perfection.

[@ccuuttww]

@@CantoneseCorner This only work between 師奶仔 because 師奶仔 daily lives look like 追麻雀數 借醬油 百佳超市特價 I wonder can sue cook Chinese food? if u mess up the meal your mother in law will grab 藤條 to teach you it is also known as corporal punishment

[@ロイドフォージャー-n6n]

我對中國資深文明遊戲非常有興趣而且好 所以看這個視頻是為了看看能不能有一些點子

[@kcyeung6787]

Lol this is beginning level

[@pillowpig7405]

雞糊係又碰又上，唔做牌，只係鬥快食所以好「雞」！呢啲就係真正嘅廣東話😄

[@chanyuenchi116]

說得對

[@hillmoon9833]

😅😂🤣😍😘🤩😝😜🤗🤔🤫🤭

[@alexisle7053]

Yup chicken hand is boring. It’s only for beginners to practice

[@julial3758]

Wow, she looks really young to be your mother in law . What's her beauty secrets! HAhaaaa

[@hillmoon9833]

🕺💖💃🕺💖💃🕺💖💃🕺💖💃📽️🎥

[@name1927]

雞胡，因為組合牌容易。

[@WhatWhoWhere11]

So confusing…

[@uncleb8068]

這不是鷄胡 是一番 因為沒有花

[@simpsonandrew9572]

We like to play HongKong style Taiwan Mahjong since it is more flexible and more combinations.