The Taishengyuan restaurant on Yellow River Road in Shanghai has become a popular tourist destination and drew many visitors on Sunday after being featured in Wong Kar-wai’s new hit TV series “Blossoms,” which debuted Dec. 27. Photo: VCG

People queue to buy shares at the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1993. Photo: VCG

A construction crew works on the Yangpu Bridge in 1993. The bridge began being built in May 1991 and connects Shanghai’s Yangpu district with Pudong New Area. Photo: IC Photo

Workers pull carts past a billboard for Olympus cameras in Shanghai in 1993. Photo: VCG

Job seekers wait to be interviewed in a recruitment center in Shanghai in 1994. Photo: VCG

A senior citizen gazes at the Shanghai skyline across the Huangpu River in 1998. Photo: VCG

A dancer stretches in a Shanghai longtang, lanes similar to hutongs in Beijing, in 1998. Photo: VCG

Clerks at a McDonald’s restaurant in Shanghai take orders in 1998. Photo: VCG

A foreign-style bar in Shanghai in the 1990s. Photo: IC Photo

A visitor takes a selfie at a window Saturday at the Fairmont Peace Hotel on Nanjing East Road to recreate a scene from “Blossoms.” Photo: VCG