I was once asked to go pick up a friends father …

We ascended a staircase in china town, to be confronted literally with a slab of a steel door with a sliding slot in it … and cameras surveying our every move.

In predictable fashion, my companion knocked …. the slat slid open, several words were uttered in chinese and we were ushered in …

To a mahjong empire … tables, people, old chinese lo-pang , the odd white guy, lots of smoke, and some very shady characters.

There’s a lot that goes on in Chinatown that some people are aware of, and things that others have no Idea about.