14 hours ago, Duvel said:
Seeing the quotation marks, did it come from the black forest (like the one a few kilometers from here down the Bergstrasse) ? Or a black forest (in China) ?
It's from the Black Forest of Qingdao, Shandong Province, north-eastern China. Supposedly, German style.
Shandong was under German control pre-revolution and Qingdao has a load of German architecture.
It also has Tsingtao* Beer made in the brewery built by Germany.
* The old transliteration for Qingdao.