Besides schooling Tang, Leung and Wang in the ways of the Shanghainese in the 1940s, Lee has taken them to Ipoh in Malay除了教授汤唯.梁朝伟.王力演绎40年代的上海人，李安也带他们到马来西亚的怡保去见识老式建筑，特别是有瓶形围墙的露台。