However, Heath felt he needed to correct one misconception: not every port city was a great place to eat seafood. Seafood had specific requirements when it came to water quality and origin. Sometimes, the seafood served in a port city might actually come from some remote fishing village whose name people had never even heard of. That was nothing unusual, and in Heath's view, Vermilion City was somewhat like that. It was a port city, but its fishing industry was not well developed.
But that was normal too. After all, nobody could expect a port with large numbers of cargo ships and cruise ships coming and going every day to make room for small fishing boats. Even if someone really planned to fish here, Vermilion City's port management and docking fees would drive costs enormously high, making it a very unprofitable undertaking.
Besides, rather than developing its fishing industry, Vermilion City was better off expanding trade between the League's various regions, then developing tourism and other such industries. Those industries made more money, so Vermilion City's development plans had been different to begin with.
Of course, since Heath had not visited Vermilion City's food market yet, he still did not know much about local seafood prices and the like. He was still using ingredients he had previously obtained in Eterna City and Lavender Town.
Shrimp could be considered one of the more popular kinds of seafood and aquatic produce, and there were all sorts of ways to eat them-so many that the number could even be described as surprising. Boiled, steamed, stir-fried over high heat-all kinds of preparations could bring out the delicious flavor of this particular ingredient, with one exception: drunken shrimp, or raw-marinated shrimp.
Whether it was drunken shrimp or so-called raw-marinated shrimp, both involved a troublesome issue: