There was little to say about the Yellow-Braised Chicken. Heath quickly finished it and brought it out to Ho-Oh, explaining how to eat it before returning to the kitchen under Palkia's inscrutable gaze to prepare the sauced noodles it wanted.
Sauced noodles were a relatively unusual noodle dish. They generally required firm, springy, smooth noodles, and making and cooking the noodles took some care so they would not turn out limp and snot-like. Although the dried noodles ordinary households bought could be used to make the dish, that version still fell a little short.
In Heath's view, a good serving of sauced noodles consisted of two parts. One was firm, springy, smooth noodles that whetted the appetite rather than bringing unpleasant things to mind. The other was the sauce and the meat served with them.
The soul of sauced noodles really lay in the sauce. Every noodle shop that did good business had a secret recipe it took pride in, and those recipes could even keep a shop thriving indefinitely. If the recipe was kept secret enough and tasted good enough, it could easily allow a family to live comfortably for two or three generations.
Heath had his own secret blend of seasonings too. As for the meat, however, he planned to let Charmander try preparing some roast beef with a distinctive texture. The beef needed to be cooked through yet tender to eat, and Charmander could achieve that perfectly. The little fellow just looked a little nervous.
Perhaps it was because Charmander had not helped Heath cook very often. As it stood beside Heath, took the beef he had sliced, and listened to his requirements, Heath could see its obvious nervousness. He could not help smiling. Although the little fellow was very hardworking, Charmander still seemed somewhat nervous and