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Mah-jongg clicks with new crop of players

Published: December 30, 2011 6:19 PM
By JOAN REMINICK  joan.reminick@newsday.com

Photo credit: Ed Betz, 2011 | Mah-jongg is played all around Long Island.

At King Kullen in Commack, you'll find dairy products in aisle 10, paper goods in aisle 5 and, by the produce section, an American-style mah-jongg game in progress.

These days, you never know where you're going to hear the click of tiles. A restaurant. A library. Almost anywhere that there are playing surfaces and chairs.

As players of this popular tile game stow away their bridge tables...