"Crab? Sure." Heath nodded. Come to think of it, Ho-Oh seemed quite fond of crab. To be honest, although Heath felt that Legendary Pokémon were all normal people, every time he saw them, he still couldn't help picturing their Pokémon forms. Take Ho-Oh, a bird, for example. Heath often felt that Ho-Oh ought to eat worms, or raw meat and things like that. Luckily, Ho-Oh couldn't read minds, or Heath figured she would have slapped him several times by now.
Naturally, Heath had stocked plenty of an unusual ingredient like crab. He could even provide Purple Crab if Ho-Oh wanted it. She hadn't really used the customers' satisfaction lately, because Heath planned to save it up for now. Saving it should work out quite well. If some extremely expensive special ingredient came up in the future, he could use the Customer Satisfaction he had accumulated. It was like saving money every month in his previous life: when an emergency came along, he wouldn't have to beg everyone for help.
However, Ho-Oh's request for a tasty crab dish really did leave Heath in a bit of a bind. After all, there were simply too many dishes he could make with crab: spicy crab, garlic crab, and so on. Even steaming it was an option, so Heath found such a broad request rather difficult to work with. Luckily, he could see his customers' preferences; otherwise, he wouldn't have known what to make at all. But after checking Ho-Oh's preferences, Heath gave up again, because the food requirement above her head was simply a tasty crab dish.
"How about making that?" Heath rubbed his chin. Sometimes, there wasn't really any need to innovate. After all, customers could still eat a meal without innovation. Take a staple like plain white rice: people accustomed to