It was almost noon when Qingyu discovered that the Gym was facing a serious crisis.
The ingredients he had stocked up on during his last trip to Flat Dish Town were running out!
In the Paldea Region, humans and Pokémon actually shared the same staple food: sandwiches, which offered incredible freedom to mix and match ingredients however you liked.
Both ready-made sandwiches and the ingredients to make them were available in shops.
Having been Chinese in his previous life, he wasn't quite used to eating these things for every meal. But after several failed attempts at cooking for himself, he had more or less accepted his fate.
Even a master of culinary disasters like him couldn't possibly mess up something that required practically no skill beyond piling ingredients onto slices of bread.
After deftly scattering a pile of ingredients such as Klawf sticks, sliced ham, and cheese onto the bread, Qingyu placed another slice on top and pressed it down, silently musing:
I wanted to complain about this back when I played Pokémon Scarlet and Violet in my previous life. How did the protagonist manage to be bad even at arranging food? How could you fail to get the top slice onto this thing?
Even he couldn't recreate those architectural sandwich monstrosities...
"Vee~"
"Ri!"
Now that was a sandwich with some heft!
Dividing the finished sandwich into three portions, Qingyu watched Eevee and Riolu wolf theirs down as he ate, and soon made up his mind-
He would head back to Flat Dish Town that afternoon to stock up on food!
On his way back from Flat Dish Town, Qingyu walked along Poco Path with two large bags of ingredients in his hands, looking around.
Unlike other regions, Paldea had very loosely defined regional boundaries, and roads with fixed