Night fell, and the waves of Kala'e Bay gently lapped against the rocks and cliffs along the shore.
The kitchen of the seaside villa was brightly lit.
As Li Wei had requested, Mallow had been coming over every evening to study cooking for an hour to an hour and a half.
These were private lessons with Li Wei.
Naturally, Mallow would never turn them down.
Li Wei intended to take Mallow on as his apprentice later,
but he was in no hurry just yet.
That could wait until he was about to leave the Alola Region.
"Mallow, you have a natural instinct for preparing and pairing ingredients," Li Wei praised.
Wearing an apron, Li Wei nodded.
"That's a rare gift."
That was also why Li Wei had called Mallow a genius.
Just as his elder uncle's aesthetic sense was at the Master Tier, that eye for beauty was practically innate.
Mallow had that sort of talent too,
except hers lay in pairing ingredients.
"Yes! Thank you so much, Teacher Li Wei!" Mallow tied on the cute apron she had prepared, her eyes sparkling.
"Steenee! Steenee!"
Steenee looked eager to give it a try as well.
Mallow had originally hoped to invite Cynthia to taste the curry with them, but Cynthia couldn't come because she was investigating newly discovered ruins.
Besides the Ursaluna ruins discovered a while ago, another site connected to Hisui had been found in Sinnoh two days earlier.
So Cynthia had thrown herself into her work again.
She was right in the thick of it now,
and even Li Wei found it difficult to see her.
Li Wei's teaching was thorough and meticulous.
He began with selecting Berries, mainly because Mallow still had some questions about them.
"Oran Berries provide the basic sweetness and make the dish filling,