Jubilife Breeding Center, Workshop.
After arriving at the Breeding Center, Dawn, Brock, and Ash headed straight to the Workshop to find Li Wei.
Li Wei was working on a new dish, Crab-Stuffed Orange, and all three of them happened to be interested.
Brock was interested in making it.
Dawn and Ash were interested in eating it.
Pikachu and Piplup stood at attention, too!
Crab-Stuffed Orange sounded delicious!
Brock asked if he could learn to make it, and Li Wei readily agreed. "Of course you can. I'm planning to make a video of this dish and upload it anyway."
Li Wei never kept his knowledge to himself. He shared everything he knew about making a dish well and posted it on the Eevee Network.
That was also why people called him Coach Li.
"Dawn, help me prepare some more oranges. Leave a little juice at the bottom-hmm... about thirty milliliters."
Li Wei prepared an orange on the spot,
cutting off the top quarter and scooping out the flesh while keeping the peel intact,
then gently scraping the inner wall with the back of a spoon until it was translucent. This would prevent the peel from making the dish bitter.
"Use this orange as your example. Got it?"
"Yes, Teacher!"
With Dawn, Ash, and Pikachu here, he could simply have them eat the orange flesh.
"I'll help, too!"
"Pikachu!"
Li Wei strongly suspected Ash would only get in the way...
Sure enough.
Ash, who relied on brute force to work miracles, scooped straight through the orange, and Li Wei promptly banished him.
"You'd better just sit over there."
"Oh..."
Ash looked small, helpless, and pitiful.
"This dish needs to be steamed, so only leave a shallow layer of orange juice at the bottom, about thirty milliliters."
Brock nodded and wrote it in