Recaps

Heath recognized that the three miners wanted an affordable, filling meal and made them traditional knife-cut noodles, drawing on his experience from his previous life. As Betty carried the bowls to the table, Zoroark had become curious about the miners’ lives after overhearing their conversation.

• Heath decided to make knife-cut noodles for the three miners, remembering how construction workers in his previous life had valued his generous, inexpensive portions.
• Heath kneaded the dough himself and shaved the noodles into the pot while Farfetch'd watched and wondered how he made them land so precisely.
• Zoroark overheard the miners discuss their pay, savings, and family plans, and grew curious about their stories.
• Heath served the noodles with a dish of garlic and called Betty to carry the tray to the miners.

Heath served a woman who craved intense sour and spicy food a bowl of beef noodles made with shuanshuan chili. She relished the extreme heat, leaving Heath wondering whether she enjoyed pain.

• Heath gave Zoroark an Agility Candy and considered Charmeleon's approaching evolution and his own fear of flying.
• A sultry woman arrived at Heath's stall in Pewter City and ordered beef noodles.
• Heath saw that the woman preferred strong sour and spicy flavors and disliked sweet food.
• Heath decided to add the exceptionally hot shuanshuan chili he had found near Pallet Town to her noodles, warning Zoroark to handle the bowl carefully.
• The woman ate a bite, trembled and sweated from the heat, then showed Heath how much she enjoyed it.

Heath served Team Aqua Admin Hemi, who enjoyed his spicy food and gave him a powerful item that turned battle pain into stat boosts. After Hemi left, Deoxys arrived at Heath’s food truck.

• Heath received Turn This Pain into Power from Hemi and realized she was a Team Aqua admin.
• The three Miners Association men enjoyed their meal, exchanged contact details with Heath, and left.
• Hemi finished her noodles and departed after Heath considered anonymously reporting her to Officer Jenny.
• Zoroark teased Heath about Hemi and briefly transformed to show ears and a tail.
• Deoxys arrived at Heath’s food truck, and Heath recognized him as a Legendary Pokémon in human form.

Deoxys visited Heath’s food truck and asked him to prepare a bizarre creature found in a meteorite, but Heath identified it as deadly poisonous and inedible. After Deoxys left, Heath watched nearby vendors attract the lunchtime crowd and decided to try a new tactic to bring customers to his food truck.

• Heath greeted Deoxys, while Farfetch'd and Little Red reacted to the visitor.
• Deoxys produced a tiger-headed, tentacled creature from a meteorite and asked Heath to prepare it.
• Heath used his Ingredient Identifier and learned the creature, called a Cosmic Octopus, was fatally poisonous and could not be cooked.
• Deoxys took the Cosmic Octopus away, said he would keep it as a pet, and left without eating.
• Heath noticed nearby vendors drawing more lunchtime customers than his food truck and decided to use a new marketing tactic the next day.

Heath designed collectible Three Kingdoms cards to attract students to his food truck and arranged for Holo Card Game Company to produce them. He launched the card-pack promotion with a limited-edition curry meal, and Brock arrived to try it.

• Heath decided to pair healthy food with collectible cards to appeal to parents and children.
• He contacted Brock for advice, then hired Holo Card Game Company to produce his Three Kingdoms cards and paid for the service.
• Heath prepared card packs and advertised a limited-edition chicken cutlet curry rice meal with fries as a snack combo.
• Brock unexpectedly visited Heath's food truck and ordered the limited-edition meal and fries.
• Heath served Brock the food with two card packs and waited nearby for his feedback.

Heath tested the appeal of his collectible Pokémon cards with Brock, who liked them despite poor luck with the rarities. After Brock left, Heath closed his food truck and took Zoroark, Farfetch'd, and Charmeleon out to explore Pewter City, where he spotted someone familiar.

• Brock opened card packs and asked Heath whether the rarity odds were set correctly, but Heath blamed his bad luck.
• Brock said he might collect the cards because they looked appealing, and Heath hoped they would sell well.
• Brock told Heath he had met Ash at the Gym and praised the boy's love for Pokémon.
• Heath closed his food truck after Brock left, then agreed to take Zoroark to a bookstore and explore the city with Farfetch'd and Charmeleon.
• Heath noticed a sign prohibiting overweight Pokémon from walking on the street and then recognized someone familiar passing by.

Heath visited a Pewter City bookstore with Zoroark and unexpectedly ran into Kailunya, whom he suspected was hiding a Gengar in her shadow. Kailunya showed him her Trainer card, revealing that she also had a Banette, leaving Heath shocked by her unusual Pokémon roster.

• Heath dismissed a man who resembled Giovanni as someone with a similar appearance and went to Ore Bookstore with Zoroark.
• Heath browsed a book about Ore Rock Bugs and decided to buy it.
• Heath recognized Kailunya in the bookstore and told her he wanted nothing to do with her.
• Kailunya said the old Kailunya had died at the Indigo League, and Heath noticed her shadow twist as she spoke.
• Kailunya offered to show Heath her Pokémon and revealed a Trainer card listing Gengar and Banette.

Heath spoke with Kailunya and learned that she had caught a Banette and planned to become a Trainer like her idol, Agatha. After leaving with Zoroark, Heath saw news about Lance and took Farfetch'd into a shop to try a Zangoose-brand kitchen knife.

• Heath asked Kailunya whether she planned to become a Trainer, and Kailunya said she admired Agatha of the Elite Four.
• Heath left Kailunya, who watched him go and reflected that she knew an Officer Jenny had been following her.
• Heath and Zoroark walked through Pewter City with books Zoroark had chosen, including several bizarre titles.
• Heath read a report that Lance had sent a legal notice to the Pokémon Journeys Company over false claims about him.
• Farfetch'd pointed out a Zangoose-brand kitchen knife, and Heath took Farfetch'd into the shop to try it.

Heath told Officer Jenny Jing about a suspicious customer he had served in Pewter City, drawing her attention to the Team Aqua executive Hemi. Later, Mew unexpectedly visited Heath's food truck at night and vanished with a manga.

• Farfetch'd bought the kitchen knife, while Charmeleon decided not to buy exercise equipment and let Heath save its money.
• Heath tried a stone-grilled meat skewer in Pewter City, then returned to the Officer Jennys' dormitory and cooked dinner.
• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that Sister Feng planned to visit Pewter City with colleagues from Viridian City.
• Heath casually described a vigilant, spicy-food-loving girl with a wrist tattoo, then gave Officer Jenny Jing the name Hemi from her work badge.
• Officer Jenny Jing left to follow up on Heath's information, and Heath returned to his food truck to spend time with Little Red.
• Heath found Mew reading a manga in his bedroom; Mew vanished with the book after showing it to him.

Heath learned that Hemi managed an online lending company, which explained her suspicious behavior but gave the Officer Jennys no grounds to arrest her. He left to shop at Pewter City’s mine-tunnel vegetable market, still hoping to find Ore Rock Bugs and prepare his limited-edition Three Kingdoms offering.

• Heath woke, found Zoroark already reading, and watched Mew skip rope beside Charmeleon before starting the morning routine with his Pokémon.
• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that Hemi managed Jiuxin Financial Lending Company, an online lender that operated within the League’s current legal limits.
• Heath recalled his past experience with predatory online lenders and concluded that he could not accuse Hemi of being in Team Aqua without evidence.
• Heath finished breakfast and drove his food truck to Pewter City’s vegetable market inside an abandoned mine.
• Heath found no Ore Rock Bugs at the market and wondered whether his upcoming limited-edition Three Kingdoms offering would earn back its costs.

Heath waited anxiously to see whether his food truck would attract customers near a school, while considering Silph Co. and the League’s future role in Team Rocket’s takeover. A mother whose daughter Helen disliked the school cafeteria came back to inspect Heath’s kitchen and ask about his student meals.

• Heath decided Farfetch'd would not work as a pastry chef that day because wearing gloves made him too awkward to cook.
• Heath wondered whether the League might have its own motives for allowing Team Rocket to occupy Silph Co. in the future.
• Mew asked Heath what it had eaten for breakfast, and Heath reminded it that he had made Hot Dry Noodles.
• Helen told her mother that the school cafeteria food had become unpleasant, and her mother resolved to ask other parents about the meals.
• After dropping Helen off at school, the woman returned to Heath’s food truck, inspected his clean kitchen, and asked what student meals he offered.

Heath used official nutrition certification to persuade Ailuo to try his chicken cutlet curry rice, and her approval brought more customers to his food truck. After serving her, he received a pair of glasses that revealed hygiene problems, while Heath wondered whether he could give them to someone else.

• Heath showed Ailuo his nutrition certification, and she verified it with a friend before agreeing to order curry rice for her child to try.
• Ailuo watched Heath cook in his clean, open kitchen, enjoyed the meal, and praised its taste and nutritional value.
• Heath received Hygiene Intuition glasses after serving Ailuo and learned that prolonged use could cause an obsession with cleanliness.
• Ailuo left satisfied, and Heath anticipated that her approval would influence other parents and their children.
• More customers arrived, checked Heath's certification, ordered curry rice, and left satisfied.

Jessie returned to Heath’s restaurant and said Saya had encouraged her to try the Pokémon Medical Care certification exam again. As Jessie ate Quartz Boil, an ardent suitor arrived and declared his love for her.

• Jessie visited Heath and told him she was studying for the Pokémon Medical Care certification exam after Saya encouraged her.
• Jessie said Saya planned to come to Pewter City to challenge its Rock-type Gym.
• Jessie ordered Quartz Boil, and Heath prepared and served it with dipping sauce.
• A man in a white suit arrived with roses, knelt before Jessie, and declared her his beloved.

Jessie was mistaken for Rumika by an obsessive admirer, while Heath tried unsuccessfully to set him straight. Later, Heath served curry rice and collectible cards to students, and one girl pulled a rare legendary card.

• A man pursued Jessie, mistook her for Rumika, and refused to believe her when she corrected him.
• Heath told the man that Jessie was really Jessie, but the man accused him of wanting Rumika for himself.
• Jessie stormed off, and Zoroark remarked that the admirer sounded like a character from a novel.
• Heath served curry rice and Three Kingdoms cards to students, and one girl pulled the legendary Diao Chan card.
• The children enjoyed Heath's curry chicken cutlet rice and lined up to order more.

Heath served a busy lunch crowd and completed the Chef's Eye (Advanced) quest, discovering that the upgraded skill revealed food allergies. After a customer with egg and rice allergies ordered Jianbing Guozi and fried milk, Heath learned the man's family farm near Pewter City produced exceptionally good Miltank milk and considered buying it.

• Heath sold chicken katsu curry rice and card packs to the children, then completed the Chef's Eye (Advanced) quest.
• Heath discovered his advanced Chef's Eye could identify food allergies when he saw that a customer was allergic to eggs and rice.
• The customer ordered egg-free Jianbing Guozi and asked Heath to prepare fried milk from a bottle he had brought.
• Heath tasted the rich, smooth Miltank milk and served the customer his meal.
• The customer revealed that his family ran a farm near Pewter City and asked whether Heath would buy their milk.

Heath verified the quality of Sanji’s Miltank milk and agreed to buy from the former convict despite his suspicious past. Sanji’s wife turned the first delivery into a conspicuous publicity stunt, leaving Heath to worry that the association might make it harder to attract customers.

• Heath questioned Sanji about why he was selling high-quality milk door to door and checked his safety certificate with Officer Jenny Jing.
• Officer Jenny Jing confirmed the certificate was genuine and told Heath about Sanji’s criminal past and family.
• Heath tasted the milk, decided it was safe, and signed a supply agreement after learning Sanji could deliver across Kanto.
• Heath bought ten kilograms of milk, and Sanji flew back on a Skarmory with a banner announcing Heath’s Little Kitchen as Sanji Ranch’s first long-term customer.
• Heath saw the crowd’s reaction and worried that customers in Pewter City might be reluctant to eat at his restaurant.

Heath arranged free Miltank milk from Sanji and welcomed a food safety inspector who sampled it for testing. Officer Jenny Feng, Officer Jenny Ling, and Officer Jenny Aya then arrived at Heath’s food truck, where Feng confronted him for skipping Viridian City.

• Sanji told Heath that his family would waive the milk charges for the length of their contract, subject to a limit of one hundred kilograms per month, and they signed a supplementary agreement.
• A Pewter City food safety inspector collected a milk sample for testing after someone paid the fee and requested that the results be made public with Heath’s permission.
• Heath realized Sanji’s wife had likely arranged both the free advertising and the inspection to build trust in the farm’s milk.
• Officer Jenny Feng, Officer Jenny Ling, and Officer Jenny Aya visited Heath’s food truck, and Aya tried to hug him before Feng pulled her away.
• Officer Jenny Feng scolded Heath for traveling from Pallet Town to Pewter City without stopping in Viridian City.

Heath received the inheritance papers for his family’s house in Lavender Town and discovered that his parents had researched Celebi. Sister Feng also warned him that Team Rocket planned to interfere with the Pewter City Science Museum’s fossil revival exhibition.

• Sister Feng gave Heath the papers for his inherited Lavender Town house and told him that his parents had been researchers who studied strange things.
• Heath cooked curry rice and double-skin milk pudding for Sister Feng and Officer Jenny Aya, and confirmed that Zoroark was working as his waitress.
• Heath found a drawing of Celebi and research notes among the documents, leaving him curious about his parents’ secrets.
• Sister Feng warned Heath that Team Rocket intended to make a move at the fossil Pokémon revival exhibition in Pewter City.

Heath learned that Giovanni and Agatha would help secure the Fossil Revival Conference in Pewter City, even though he knew Giovanni secretly led Team Rocket. After Officer Jenny Feng and the others left, Heath served students and their parents, reassuring them about Sanji Ranch’s milk and promoting its dairy products.

• Heath warned Officer Jenny Feng to be careful on her missions because Giovanni was powerful and secretly led Team Rocket.
• Officer Jenny Feng said the League had arranged backup for the conference, including Giovanni and Agatha of the Elite Four.
• Heath chatted with Officer Jenny Feng, Sister Ling, and Officer Jenny Aya about Viridian City and heard that people missed his food.
• Officer Jenny Feng dragged Officer Jenny Aya away after Aya suggested staying in Heath’s food truck.
• Heath served students and parents after school, offered double-skin milk pudding, and promised independent testing for every Sanji Ranch delivery.
• Heath sold a Three Kingdoms combo to an excited boy.

Heath found a wary Nidoran♀ waiting in his food truck and suspected its Trainer had abandoned it. After waiting more than two hours with no one returning, he called Officer Jenny Jing, and Officer Jenny Lei arrived to investigate.

• Heath discovered Nidoran♀ hiding beneath the tables and learned through Zoroark that its Trainer had told it to wait and then left.
• Heath waited for more than two hours, but Nidoran♀'s Trainer never returned.
• Heath called Officer Jenny Jing and explained the situation in a text.
• Officer Jenny Lei arrived, and Heath led her inside to see Nidoran♀.

Officer Jenny Lei discovered that the abandoned Nidoran♀ had severe Pokémon fever, and Nurse Joy found that she had missed the window for treatment. Heath watched as the Pokémon was prepared for cremation, left troubled by her death.

• Officer Jenny Lei used Jigglypuff’s song to put the aggressive Nidoran♀ to sleep and examined her.
• Officer Jenny Lei determined that Nidoran♀ had severe Pokémon fever and had been given adrenaline, suggesting she had been abandoned while sick.
• Heath followed Officer Jenny Lei as she rushed Nidoran♀ to Nurse Joy for treatment.
• Nurse Joy said Nidoran♀ had been sick for at least five days and could not be saved.
• Officer Jenny Lei explained that she handled abandoned Pokémon, and Nurse Joy placed Nidoran♀ in a white bag for cremation.

After Nidoran♀ died from Pokémon fever, Heath struggled with the Pokémon’s abandonment and tried to calm himself by visiting Sister Feng and the Pokémon Center. He then headed to Pewter City’s Ghost Market after hearing that Ore Rock Bugs were for sale.

• Heath wondered why Nidoran♀'s Trainer had left the Pokémon in his food truck, but his Magic Conch failed to reveal who they were.
• Heath visited Sister Feng, found her writing a report, and left after Sister Ling offered him lemonade.
• Heath wandered into the Pokémon Center and felt calmer as he watched Trainers bring in their injured Pokémon.
• Heath went to Pewter City's Ghost Market and heard that Ore Rock Bugs were being sold there.

Heath went looking for the Ore Rock Bug but got caught up at a stall selling unusually cheap old oil, which he recognized as used cooking oil. By the time he found the Ore Rock Bug vendor, it had sold, so Heath bought a photograph and finally saw what it looked like.

• Heath followed a crowd to a stall, expecting to find Ore Rock Bugs, but discovered that the vendor was selling cheap oil.
• Heath smelled the oil, identified it as old oil, and learned from the vendor that it was cheap because it had already been used for cooking.
• Heath left the stall as customers bought the old oil and continued searching for the Ore Rock Bug.
• Heath found the Ore Rock Bug vendor after the bug had sold, then bought a photograph for one League Coin.
• Heath saw that the Ore Rock Bug resembled a huge centipede with a body wider than an adult man's thumb and many legs.

Heath prepared to sell food near the Pewter Science Museum during its ancient Pokémon revival event. After arriving too late to find a good spot, he accepted Mr. Giovanni’s offer of a prime location by the museum exit.

• Heath considered spending 75,000 League Coins on an Ore Rock Bug to complete his achievement quest and joked with Zoroark before going to sleep.
• Heath dreamed that he joined a cooking championship, met Mr. Giovanni, and battled him while Giovanni was controlled by an insect resembling an Ore Rock Bug.
• Heath woke to find Mew sleeping on Snorlax’s belly, then planned to stock up on ingredients for the museum event.
• Heath bought a large supply of groceries and went to the Pewter Science Museum, where crowds and vendors had already filled the area.
• Mr. Giovanni saved Heath a spot near the museum exit, and Heath thanked him and set up his food truck there.

Heath prepared to sell food outside the Pewter City Science Museum and met Ailuo, who was pleased with his meal-card promotion. He later spoke with Officer Jenny Feng, who warned him to watch for pickpockets and keep an eye on Farfetch'd.

• Heath paid Zoroark to work outside but took his Pokémon to see the museum’s revival demonstration before it opened.
• Heath greeted Ailuo and Helen, and Ailuo returned the meal cards Helen had earned by buying several set meals.
• Ailuo saw Heath’s free-card promotion as a possible marketing idea for her company and decided she was not angry with Helen for spending her allowance.
• Heath greeted Sister Feng and Old Wind outside the museum, and Sister Feng warned him about pickpockets and told him to watch Farfetch'd.