Separate chilli

Yesterday I went to I Mum Mum (for the first time in ages) and ordered their dry chilli pan mee. I remembered it being good, and the taste did not disappoint. But I felt extremely thirsty later...was this why I stopped going there?

Anyway, as the title says, this post is about separate chilli.

When ordering, we could choose whether we wanted separate chilli. I decided to select that, because I would then be able to use less if it turned out to be too spicy.

Psst...I wish I had tried selecting both "fully cooked egg" and "change soft boiled egg". They seem to contradict each other. I wonder what I would receive?

Anyway, this is the default egg. It actually seems pretty soft to me...so I don't know what would change if I had opted to change to soft-boiled egg. Maybe it would be more runny?

And as you can see from the photo, there is a separate dish of chilli. (the dish is square, so you can guess the amount of chilli they gave there!) 

What I didn't expect is that there would be chilli on the noodles as well. I thought that the chilli would be separated from the noodles. Which was why I was initially rather shocked when I saw that separate dish of chilli...I thought it was the same amount that would have been placed on the noodles, if I hadn't asked for it to be separated.

But I guess another interpretation of "separate chilli" is that we are asking for an additional separate dish of chilli. In any case, I'm glad I selected that, because I did add quite a bit more chilli from the side.