Overall, we had a pleasant stay at J Hotel, but the breakfast was very disappointing.
My Chinese partner found the food bland with very limited variety, while as a foreign guest, I could barely find anything worth eating.
The so-called Western options were particularly poor. The toast wasn't proper toast bread, the waffles were just small, soft pre-packaged cakes, the jam was excessively sweet, and there wasn't even butter available.
There was no coffee either. When we asked, staff brought out an old plastic coffee maker with what appeared to be some kind of instant coffee. The orange juice tasted more like sugary artificial syrup than actual juice.
It felt like the hotel tried to offer a Western breakfast without really understanding what that involves. I certainly don't expect a European breakfast when travelling in China, but even the Chinese options disappointed my partner.
A shame, because everything else about our stay was genuinely good.