With the mention of Sunset Boulevard (1950) in the episode, this means that the series as a whole begins in 1950, in the same year the movie came out.
The Emerald Hill scene in the present day which the voice-over narrator Huang Zhen En visited and took photographs of the houses there still does exist in Singapore. That is where part of the title for the drama series came from.
Rayson Tan (Zhang Qi Ye) and Li Ping Chen (Ah Zhu) are actually husband and wife in real life, but they do not share any scene in the episode.
Zoe Tay's Xiu Niang has three sons and a daughter: Romeo Tan's Jin Quan, Chieh-kai Shiou's Jin He, Shaun Chen's Jin Hai, and Sheila Sim's Yin Niang. In real life, she is the mother to three sons, though her sons are much younger than her on-screen sons.
Reuniting Dawn Yeoh (Kang Si Li) and Gini Chang (Ah Zhen) not since they were both in the movie King of Hawkers (2024), though back then Yeoh played the mother to Chang's character who played her daughter.
