It's Mother's Day tomorrow, a time when local pastry chefs go all-out.
This latest from Maxim's really takes the cake, so to speak: a 1kg creation with kiwis and strawberries, topped by a chocolate-coated mahjong table set for mum. The mahjong combination shown on the cake, appropriately named 'lucky in all directions', is the Chinese equivalent of a full house.
Hasn't Maxim's seen the new government TV ad against gambling featuring a chain-smoking, mahjong-addicted mother betting away while her children go without food?
LoDown has first-hand experience - not from his own mum of course - of the terrible effect of mahjong.
I take my kid to a school bus stop every day to get him to kindergarten. I found out recently that some of the housewives at the bus stop used to be great friends - but no more.
They used to play 18-hour marathon mahjong sessions together until, of course, someone started losing big. Some are not on speaking terms anymore but are stuck together at the same bus stop every day because there isn't another stop within a 1km radius.
