Digestive trouble was a troublesome problem, especially if it developed into a chronic stomach condition, which was far from easy to cure completely. Heath had only learned that James had been having digestive trouble lately through the food requirements above his head. His request was an ordinary one: [Because of digestive trouble, wants something light to eat]. That was why Heath planned to make James some medicinal wonton soup. He had already decided which medicinal ingredients to use, too. Chinese yam and lily bulbs were good choices, and since they were ingredients in their own right, using them in a medicinal dish would not be particularly out of place.
The only issue was probably that making medicinal dishes required careful consideration of how the ingredients worked together, as well as their quantities. After all, too many medicinal ingredients could make the medicinal flavor especially strong. An ordinary breakfast food like wontons did not demand a particularly elaborate broth; they were perfectly edible boiled in clear broth with a sprinkling of chopped scallions, shrimp, or the like. But an overpowering medicinal flavor would cause problems.
Fortunately, Heath had experience making medicinal dishes. Although it had been a long time since he last made one, it was not particularly troublesome, and he soon brought James and Meowth their breakfast.
"Those dried fish smell great, meow!" Meowth looked happily at the dried fish before him. He was sitting on a chair, too, and that alone showed that James treated Meowth not as his Pokémon, but as a companion. Although many Trainers said they should treat their Pokémon as companions, many of them still made their Pokémon eat on the floor, just like pet dogs.
"Huh? Are these wontons? They smell wonderful." James was a little surprised, too. There was an odd scent mixed