{"id":54862,"date":"2026-05-24T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54862"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:12:21","slug":"how-mr-mahjong-is-telling-hong-kong-stories-through-his-one-of-a-kind-outdoor-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54862","title":{"rendered":"How Mr Mahjong is telling Hong Kong stories through his one-of-a-kind outdoor exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In Hong Kong\u2019s bustling Central district, the pedestrian-only Shin Hing Street is a popular haven known for its wide staircase and its many great bars and restaurants. Now, one of the neighbourhood\u2019s most beloved streets is getting its own visual identity over three days in May, courtesy of 33-year-old Daniel Wu, also known as Mr Mahjong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Starting from May 29, the 15 shops that hug the steps will each display a one-of-a-kind mahjong tile-inspired artwork on their facades.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The project is the first outdoor \u201cexhibition\u201d by Wu \u2013 <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">@mmj_HK on Instagram<\/span> \u2013 after spending the past few years turning the traditional 144-tile game into a unique canvas for Hong Kong stories.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wu is a civil engineering graduate from the University of Hong Kong who unexpectedly ended up following an artistic path. While at university, having any \u201ccreative output\u201d felt like a distant world, he says, but he started \u201cmessing around\u201d to test how far a mahjong tile design could be bent before it was no longer seen as a proper mahjong piece.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That idle curiosity became an obsession when he realised that the blank faces and simple iconography of the tiles could be repurposed into almost anything, from Cantonese wordplay to personal names and miniature street scenes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Shin Hing Street project is the first outdoor \u201cexhibition\u201d by Daniel Wu. Photo: Sun Yeung\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/21\/518f8721-3434-45af-89e6-a2ad08321100_e29f8c84.jpg\" title=\"The Shin Hing Street project is the first outdoor \u201cexhibition\u201d by Daniel Wu. Photo: Sun Yeung\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">The Shin Hing Street project is the first outdoor \u201cexhibition\u201d by Daniel Wu. Photo: Sun Yeung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">\u201cI\u2019m actually a terrible mahjong player,\u201d Wu confesses with a grin. The spark was purely visual. \u201cI was just drawn to the design of each one. I looked at them and thought, \u2018I really want to make something out of those.\u2019 <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">You can do almost anything with a tile<\/span>.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3354356\/how-mr-mahjong-telling-hong-kong-stories-through-his-one-kind-outdoor-exhibition?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hong Kong\u2019s bustling Central district, the pedestrian-only Shin Hing Street is a popular haven known for its wide staircase and its many great bars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5730,3569,5231,21582,17351,10746,1726,1755],"class_list":["post-54862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-exhibition","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-mahjong","tag-oneofakind","tag-outdoor","tag-stories","tag-telling","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}