Mahjong and Mooncakes

Let's celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival together with mahjong and mooncakes. Come learn, play, and enjoy locally made mooncakes by Little Moon Bakehouse, Gong Dessert Shop by Droo the Baker, and Napoleon Super Bakery.

Co-hosted with Oakland Bloom, The Mahjong Project and, Moments Cooperative the evening will feature:

🀄 Mahjong sets and tables - come with friends or meet new ones over this cultural classic game; tables will be beginner-friendly as well as select tables designated for playing for points (Hong Kong style)

😋 - Hong Kong comfort foods like scallion pancakes with curry tofu dipping sauce, lapcheung sticky rice, and more

📚 books - purchase your very own signed copy of Nicole Wong's book 'Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora' as well as other curated offerings from Moments Cooperative

🥮 Mooncake tasting + pick up your favorites - just in time for Mid-Autumn Festival. We'll be offering a limited number of mooncakes (vegan, vegetarian and classic lotus paste+ salted egg yolk) for sale. We will also be offering complimentary tastings of unique flavors*

🍸 Enjoy a special themed cocktail and drinks by Open Test Kitchen

It takes all of us to keep community food and culture alive and thriving. If you can, support our programs with a tax-deductible donation.

Accessibility: This is a family-friendly event. Indoor and outdoor seating will be available, weather permitting. Masks provided and encouraged indoors when not eating and drinking encouraged.

*Limited supply of mooncakes will be available for purchase - come early or message [email protected] to reserve your mooncakes!

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About Oakland Bloom

Oakland Bloom is a nonprofit that supports working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs and neighborhoods to thrive by fostering more a more connected, generative and direct local economy. Through its project Open Test Kitchen, Oakland Bloom hosts a community kitchen hub co-led with chefs, which offers opportunities for collaboration , a community space that hosts events for cultural joy. Oakland Bloom also hosts events that foster community healing, resilience, joy, and learning - at Open Test Kitchen, at neighborhood-based initiatives in Oakland Chinatown, and via partnerships connecting chefs to share their stories and craft across Oakland and the Bay Area.

Learn more about Oakland Bloom and Open Test Kitchen at @otk_eats and @oaklandbloom on Instagram.

About The Mahjong Project

Nicole Wong is the creator and founder of The Mahjong Project, and author of Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora. She organizes pop-up mahjong nights across the Bay Area, and writes about mahjong and Asian American culture. Her work has been featured by Vogue, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, NPR’s Code Switch, and more.

To learn more about The Mahjong Project, check out www.themahjongproject.com or @themahjongproject on Instagram.

About Moments Cooperative

Moments Cooperative and Community Space opened in January 2021 on occupied Ohlone land (downtown Oakland, CA) to share much-needed physical space and resources for artists and organizers — particularly Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+, low-income communities, and our unhoused neighbors. We are a not-for-profit cooperative that is volunteer-led and horizontally-run by and for QTBIPOC. We carry a curated selection of new and used books and zines by BIPOC and radical authors.Moments Co-op intends to support QTBIPOC voices, needs, and dreams. We hope to be a welcoming and supportive environment for our communities to thrive.

Visit https://www.momentscooperative.com/ or @moments.co.op on Instagram.

Photo credits: Dana Mariko Chang (IG: @danamariko) for Little Moon Bakehouse, and Andria Lo (@aweilo) for The Mahjong Project.