American Mahjong

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Kinsey Gidick, The Only Game in Town; In hotel lobbies across the country, the old-school table game of mahjong is making a comeback (again). Travel + Leisure, November, 2024, at page 74.
https://www.travelandleisure.com ... ave-amenity-8602126

Note:
(a) The URL above is published online in March 2024 (month according to Google). The print version is substantially revised, and shown below.
(b) Chop Suey Club "雜碎俱樂部" and its founder Ruoyi Jiang ("你好我是若仪 * * * 北京人在纽约"). In the same Web page, she uses both traditional and simplified See About. Chop Suey Club, undated.
https://www.chopsueyclub.com/pages/about-us
(c) "THE PALMETTO CAFÉ at the Charleston Place"
(i) As you may guess from the names it is a hotel located at Charleston, South Carolina, which is Palmetto State as its state tree is sabal palmetto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_palmetto
, where sabal is the genus name (as genus name, the first letter is capitalized). On the right margin of this Wiki page, heed the map, and you will see that sabal palmetto is native to north America, and its northern boundary is in South Carolina.

The words sabal and palmetto is interchangeable. To appreciate this palm tree, view the sketch at the upper left corner with the caption: "Sabal palmetto from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius's Historia naturalis palmarum." OR Sabal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal
("fan-palms")
and top photo.
(ii) South Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina
(section 2 Geography: Lowcountry)
Click Lowcountry, and the new page has a classification at the very top: " 'Lowcountry' redirects here. For the geographical region in and around the Netherlands, see Low Countries."