but none of them buy their tiles from him. “My mahjong sets are expensive,” he admits. A full set of hand-carved tiles costs HK$5,500 (US$700), he says, whereas machine-carved ones are around ...
Mahjong tiles were once carved by hand – a painstaking task – but you’d be hard-pressed to find a set of hand-carved mahjong tiles these days. Ho Sau-mai is one of the last mahjong carvers ...