Remember mahjong? That game where Jewish grandmothers push thick ivory tiles etched with exotic characters around a card ...

We have her mahjong set somewhere in storage. My uncle Norman said a relative purchased it on a business trip to China. As children, Norman and my dad would pelt each other with the ivory tiles.

Eyebrows furrowed in careful concentration as he chisels images and Chinese characters onto mahjong tiles, 70-year-old Cheung Shun-king is one of the last craftsmen of his kind in Hong Kong.