Get your hands dirty at Yingge's pottery street

If fancy yourself a ceramist and would like to try your hand at making your very own pot, bowl or cup, then many of the stores also offer studios where you can craft your very own creation. If you're not artistic and worry that you'll end up with a lumpy mound of clay instead of a beautifully crafted bowl, don't worry—an instructor is there to guide you through the process and help appropriately.

Afterwards, you can carve your own design into whatever you made. Then you hand it off to have it fired in the kiln, and in two to three weeks your finished product is mailed to you.

This story has somewhat of an unhappy ending, though, as I waited and waited for the bowl that I painstakingly designed to arrive. Finally, almost two months later, my husband received a package that had our group's pottery pieces in it ... everyone's except mine.

So be wary of the studio that you choose and perhaps try to pick one that seems more established, even if you have to pay a little bit more (the studio we went to has, conveniently, stopped answering their telephone). Though I am a bit despondent that I'll never get to see my finished product, well, at least I had the experience. Besides, I like to think that they decided to keep my bowl because it was the best one.

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