How do you say "it's delicious" in Thai?

อร่อยมากเลย (à-rɔ̀i mâak ləəi). Add a polite particle at the end. A man says อร่อยมากเลยครับ (à-rɔ̀i mâak ləəi khráp). A woman says อร่อยมากเลยค่ะ (à-rɔ̀i mâak ləəi khâ).

How to say "it's delicious" in Thai (with phonetics)

อร่อยมากเลย

à-rɔ̀i mâak ləəi

It's really delicious.

When you are telling the cook you liked the food, this is the everyday way to say "it's delicious" in Thai.

Tips

Add a polite particle at the end. A man says อร่อยมากเลยครับ (à-rɔ̀i mâak ləəi khráp). A woman says อร่อยมากเลยค่ะ (à-rɔ̀i mâak ləəi khâ).
Tone tip: say à-rɔ̀i flat and low, both syllables, not rising or high. Then mâak falls from high to low, and ləəi stays level in the middle of your voice.
You can shorten it to just อร่อย (à-rɔ̀i) or อร่อยมาก (à-rɔ̀i mâak). Adding เลย sounds friendlier to the cook.

Word by word

อร่อย à-rɔ̀i: delicious, tasty (Low tone on both syllables.)
มาก mâak: very, a lot (Falling tone, long vowel.)
เลย ləəi: (emphasis particle: really, so) (Makes it warm and natural. Mid tone, long vowel.)

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