Chinese American Association of Watertown, Massachusetts

CAAW has partnered with the Watertown Free Public Libraries (WFPL) to host the first of a series of Learn Chinese Mahjong sessions! The first one will be Introduction to Taiwanese Mahjong, Wednesday, September 10, 2025! Space is limited for this FREE event so registration with the WFPL is required. Registration opens on August 20, 9… Read more: Learn to Play Chinese Mahjong: Introduction to Taiwanese Mahjong

CAAW is looking into partnering with the Watertown Free Public Libraries to teach the community how to play Chinese Mahjong (144 tile set with flowers)! There are various different styles, and current members of CAAW are knowledgeable on Taiwanese style (16-tile base, 17 to win), Hong Kong style (13-tile base, 14 to win), and Dongbei… Read more: Mahjong anyone?

A little more than a month after debuting at the Boston Dragon Boat Festival, the Night Herons had a chance to get together and celebrate their success with some friends, family, and food! Since summer has gotten under way already not all the members of Night Herons could make it, but those present had a… Read more: Night Herons Celebrate with Dimsum

CAAW Night Herons are in the news again, courtesy of the Watertown Cable News! See the original article by Daniel Carito at Watertown’s Night Herons Make Impressive Debut at Boston Dragon Boat Festival.

The Night Herons had a fantastic first appearance at the Boston Dragon Boat Festival! The weather was fantastic and the team performed a respectable 9th place out of 12 in Division C. With 72 teams across Divisions A through F, this means we were 33rd out of the 72 teams! The day’s best was in… Read more: Night Herons — CAAW, CAAW, CAAW!

It was a wet day but the CAAW Night Herons have completed a major milestone — we completed the teams first ever timed trials at the Boston Dragon Boat Festival! The competition format was for the teams to race in 2 heats of 200 meter races against 3 other boats. The average time between the… Read more: CAAW Night Herons Made Division C at Timed Trials!

The dragon boat team was captured practicing on the Charles River by the Watertown Cable News! See their full article write up, Watertown Launches First-Ever Dragon Boat Team for Boston’s Annual Festival, written and videoed by Dan Hogan, on May 30.

We have had two practices so far in the Charles River with coaches and steerers from the Boston Dragon Boat Festival! The team is doing great being all novices who have never done dragon boat before! We’ve also experienced two completely different weather patterns, between it being gorgeous on the first practice and it being… Read more: Night Herons are Practicing in the Charles River!

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