Rice is a side dish and so is brought together with dishes that are meant to accompany more substantial dishes much as Westerners serve vegetables with the meat.
Although Thai cuisine does not quite differentiate food in quite the same way, for the sake of classification we will call them sides.
There is some overlap between our classifications as some snacks could easily be classified as a side too depending on the context of where it is eaten.
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