I've been to Golden Jaguar many times, and I like it, especially Oden (关东煮）-- very tasty =P~
However ... too noisy. If you want to date with your lover quitely, you'd better have other choices.

If you only have a bowl of noodles you can enjoy it and feel satisfied but when the choices are too many, you lose your way for the direction. That is the feeling of mine when I got into Galen jaguar. The food is good and the dishes are far more beyond your imagination. The environment is not bad but with the crowd diners, it's too crowded. Don't know others but I am the one who never had strong appetite when having buffet dinners.

sea food, Thai, Japanese, Guangdong, Western, dim sum, desert you can basically find anything in this huge buffet place.not many ice cream choices but things are good in general. There's live performance but suggest to go during lunch time, not only cause it's cheaper than 6-8pm time slot, also you have enough time to digest before go to bed.

If you are hungry enough to eat an elephant, then the Golden Jaguar is the place for you! Not only do they have enough food to build an elephant, they probably have elephant somewhere around there as well. The food is not only plentiful here, but the quality is supreme. This is one case where the quantity and quality are truly equal. After you stuff yourself with food from Thailand, Korea, Japan, and China, you can head over to the dessert bar where there are desserts from around the world such as tres leches cake, rice balls, puddings, fruit, and much much more. A word of warning for visiting the Golden Jaguar... wear stretchy pants. The ride home will be so much more comfortable.

Had a family lunch there this past weekend and while the place definitely impresses in its sheer size and scale, it doesn't quite match up to other branches I've tried in Shanghai (which were excellent, I might add).

On the positive side, the sashimi at this branch is quite good - they have an excellent and fresh selection of salmon, tuna, mackerel, octopus and other standards. They also do Cantonese style dim sum well (the durian puffs are exquisite, as are the various baozi, especially the one with crab meat). The raw oysters in the Southeast Asian section were gone in a matter of minutes.

There is a sizeable selection of Taiwanese style dishes (seafood and such), which most diners seem to ignore (like all branches, they queue up for the abalone, swallow's nest and, unfortunately, the shark's fin soup). Desserts are also decent - with a nice range of cheesecakes, fresh fruit juices and good ice cream; and they even do cocktails (with minimal alcohol, of course), serve decent draft beer (yanjing and budweiser) and god-awful domestic wines by the glass - all splayed out for the grabbing.

However this branch falls well short in the international food category (as compared to the Shanghai branches, which were surprisingly good in this area), with terrible renditions of mushroom soup, spaghetti bolognese and steaks (all prepared way too overcooked for my taste, with no option of getting it medium rare).

The decor is classic Chinese nouveau-riche - heavy on the red carpets, crystals and glass, but the layout is quite awkward - the interior is essentially a long, winding labyrinth and getting from station to station during weekend lunchtimes is like being in the subway at rush hour.

Service is efficient, but they get two thumbs down for trying to hawk RMB 3,000-5,000 membership cards (worth it only if you have an endless string of clients to impress) twice during our meal, as well as the rude hostesses at the door who harangued us to see our bill as we left, although no warning was given by the wait staff (who very perfunctly asked us to pay just 20 minutes into our meal) that we would have to show it upon leaving.