Shanghai bar mixes clay and alcohol

January 3, 1998
Web posted at: 3:04 p.m. EST (2004 GMT)

SHANGHAI, China (CNN) -- A Shanghai nightspot has a new spin on entertainment. You can sip your favorite drink and make a pot at the White Art Pottery bar -- and customers appear to love it.

Would-be artists have access to a spinning wheel to make their creations.

Bar manager Xing Jianping said the idea was to give customers a place where they can relax and create. And with customers queuing up to have a go at the potter's wheel, the young entrepreneur appears to have found a market niche.

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Many escape to the bar to unwind from the stress of the city's busy financial center.

"I feel very relaxed, like I don't have to think about anything else. There is no pressure," said 24-year-old Yu Zheng.

This feeling was echoed by Liang Ning, another young customer who said, "making these pottery items lets me feel a sense of achievement."

Reuters contributed to this report.

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