"Zhu Jia Jiao - Venice of Shanghai" Shanghai Off The Beaten Path Tip by aukahkay

Most tourists to Shanghai will take a day trip to Zhou Zhuang to see the water village. However, I decided to visit Zhu Jia Jiao, about an hour's drive from Shanghai. Unlike Zhou Zhuang, which is specifically catered to tourists, Zhu Jia Jiao is a real water village with normal inhabitants inside the village. Take a boat ride down the river while admiring the traditional houses on both sides. Restaurants and tea houses line both sides of the narrow canals.
As you walk through the narrow lanes of this village, you will find shops selling a traditional local speciality - braised pig trotters. You can buy a piece of pig trotters and consume it back in your hotel for dinner later in the evening.
If you want to have lunch at Zhu Jia Jiao, their main specialty is seafood. However, I did not like the seafood at all - the steamed fish was so bony that you had to tease the bones away. The boiled prawns were so tiny that there was hardly any meat.