Giti Thai is the vision of JeRome Tarver, who was the first Black restauranteur on Cannery Row, in Monterey California with Nick's Oceanside Cafe, next to Bubba Gumps, and the second Black restaurant …
This Giti's Fried Rice is FIREEEEE! Thai food is my all time fav and I have to say...this is the BEST! The Thai Veggie Egg Rolls are also flavorful. This is Thailand Gone Black Hollywood...Love Love Love Love Love it! I'll be buying again.
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Marcco T
Emerging Expert • 5 contributions
Loved
• 3/31/26
• DoorDash order
This is my first time eating here and to be honest the food is phenomenal! The flavors are on point, the food is hot and super fresh! Love the spice levels. They're very accurate too - Spicy is spicy, mild is mild, etc. I had the Thai Veggie Egg Rolls, Ghiti Fried Rice w/ crab and shrimp and the Druken Noodles. Everything was spectacular, flavor wise. The portions are good; however, I felt like they could've given a couple more shrimp in my rice. They gave a total of 5 medium size shrimp. I'm pleased with the size just not the amount. And the crab is not imitation crab. It's Blue Crab, and I absolutely LOVEEEE the fact that they're using real crab! I hate places that use imitation crab. The only issue ai have is that there's not much crab in the rice. I'm sure if you ordered extra there would be a nice amount, but it's a bit disappointing to pay close to $30 and get a small amount of crab and only 5 shrimp. Aside from that, the Egg rolls are great! Nice and crunchy and the veggies inside are so savory! The Drunken Noodles were pretty outstanding too. No complaints at all with the Egg Rolls and Noodles. I think I'm just not too please about the amount of crab and shrimp in my rice, but all in all, the food is so good! I mean BURSTING with flavor! You will not be disappointed. I'm absolutely going to order again!
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Nicole H
Emerging Expert • 11 contributions
Didn't like
• 9/4/25
• DoorDash order
I don't know what I did in my past life to deserve this subpar, overcooked, flavorless dry ahhh Orange Chicken. It was like chewing a dog toy dipped in sugar water. I'd get better orange chicken as an inmate at Rikers.
What possessed them to not only screw up my dinner, but to actually serve it to me and charge me $14 for it is beyond me. I wouldn't have paid $5 for that if I had known.
To add insult to injury, half of the portion was unseasoned vegetables! So I ended up paying $60 for two spoonfuls of nasty chicken and some steamed frozen vegetables.
The fried rice was meh , and also half vegetables.
Maybe their usual cook was sick, or left. But GET HIM BACK STAT!!!!
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Malikka M
3 contributions
Didn't like
• 6/15/26
• DoorDash order
I ordered the combination fried rice and was really disappointed. The rice was overcooked and mushy. It was also very bland and lacked flavor. For a “combination” fried rice, there was barely any protein. I found only about three small shrimp, could hardly find any chicken, and there was essentially one and a half tiny pieces of beef in the entire dish. The beef itself wasn’t enjoyable either. It was tough, rubbery, and required constant chewing.
The only redeeming part of my order was the wings, which were actually good. Unfortunately, based on the fried rice, I don’t see myself ordering from this restaurant again unless I’m specifically craving the wings.
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Kaitlin B
1 contributions
Liked
• 8/14/22
• DoorDash order
The Salmon Teriyaki with Steamed Veggies was extremely tiny should not be a $22 dish. It was supposed to come with 2 egg rolls but those were missing. Other than that the pad Thai was perfect and the Tom Kha Coconut Milk Soup was delicious!
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