{"id":391386,"date":"2026-07-09T00:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:58:38","slug":"san-francisco-chinatown-night-market-adds-free-mahjong-play-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391386\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Chinatown Night Market adds free Mahjong play \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer in San Francisco means festivals and night markets almost every weekend, with the goal of attracting tourists to different neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Every second Friday of the month through October, the BeChinatown Night Market will take place with the added addition of &#8220;Mahjong on Waverly.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The tile-based game originated in China in the 19th century and has exploded in popularity worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Janelle Wang got some Mahjong tips from Jaimie Lau of Mo Pai Mahjong Club. See more in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer in San Francisco means festivals and night markets almost every weekend, with the goal of attracting tourists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-391386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}