Recaps

Heath finished serving customers in Saffron City, closed his food truck early, and set off for Cerulean City with his Pokémon. He learned that the city was entering its beautiful but damp rainy season and planned to prepare for the humidity as he traveled.

• Heath completed the Golden Chicken preparation and planned to share the meal with his Pokémon after closing for the day.
• Heath closed his food truck early in Saffron City and set it to autopilot toward Cerulean City.
• Heath invited Farfetch'd and Zoroark to bring Charizard and the others out to eat the fried chicken and side dishes.
• Heath checked his phone and discovered that Cerulean City was in its rainy season, a peak period for visitors.
• Heath looked forward to Cerulean City's scenery and planned to buy desiccants or find a dehumidifying function for his food truck.

Heath traveled from Saffron City toward Cerulean City, thinking about rainy-season preparations and realizing he had left without telling Mew. He entered Diglett Tunnel and reached a road where Diglett frequently emerged, requiring drivers to slow down.

• Heath planned to buy a Clothes Dryer and a machine for drying customers’ wet shoes to prevent slippery floors in his Food Truck during Cerulean City’s rainy season.
• Zoroark reminded Heath that Mew had not returned, and Heath realized he had left Saffron City without telling it.
• Heath decided to buy Mew a phone in Cerulean City so he could contact it before leaving in the future.
• Heath drove through Diglett Tunnel without encountering congestion, then reached a sign warning drivers about Diglett appearing on the road.
• Heath explained that the League imposed a thirty-kilometer-per-hour speed limit on roads where Diglett frequently emerged.

Heath’s food truck was struck by a Diglett, delaying his journey to Cerulean City. He discovered the Diglett was an Alola Diglett and arrived in the city late at night, with plans to prepare for business the next day.

• Heath’s food truck stopped when a Diglett rammed its chassis, and he called the Pokémon Center for help.
• Heath examined the Diglett and noticed grass-like strands growing from its head.
• The Nurse Joys identified the Diglett as an Alola Diglett and had Chansey lullaby it before capturing it.
• Heath’s truck needed no repairs, but the delay meant he reached Cerulean City at one thirty in the morning.
• Heath saw that it was raining, went to sleep, and planned to buy supplies and apply for a vending permit the next day.

Heath woke to the rainy season’s striking blue light in Cerulean City and admired the view with Ralts and Zoroark. He planned to buy supplies before opening his food truck, considering where he might be able to operate.

• Heath woke late to steady rain and decided to enjoy Cerulean City’s rainy-season scenery.
• Heath woke Zoroark and found Ralts watching the rain through the food truck’s large window.
• Ralts greeted Heath and nestled into his arms as he admired the pale-blue rain clouds and sunlight over the city.
• Zoroark joined Heath and Ralts at the window and was captivated by the scenery.
• Heath decided to visit the supermarket for supplies and considered whether his food truck could get a spot on Cerulean City’s crowded food street.

Heath bought a dehumidifier and a machine that quickly dried wet shoes and trouser legs before processing his vending permit in Cerulean City. At his new vending spot near the Gym, he met Misty, who recognized him and shyly asked if he was Mr. Heath.

• Heath bought a dehumidifier and a fast clothes dryer for his food truck.
• Heath learned that Officer Jenny Ling was absent because she had caught influenza A, then got his vending permit processed by Officer Jenny Moonlight.
• Heath drove to his new vending spot in a shopping district near the Gym.
• Misty approached Heath excitedly and shyly asked if he was Mr. Heath.
• Heath confirmed his identity and asked Misty what he could help her with.

Heath met Misty in Cerulean City, where the acting Gym Leader asked him to get Cynthia’s autograph. Cynthia arrived soon afterward, and the two went into Heath’s Food Truck to escape the rain, where she asked to cook something herself.

• Misty introduced herself to Heath as the acting Gym Leader of Cerulean City’s Water-type Gym and asked him to get Cynthia’s autograph.
• Heath agreed to ask Cynthia first, and Misty left him her contact information before departing happily.
• Cynthia appeared behind Heath as he called her, and she asked whether Misty had wanted her autograph.
• Cynthia told Heath that Misty was kind and that her Pokémon liked her, then asked Heath to take her inside.
• Heath led Cynthia into his Food Truck and explained the equipment that dried their clothes and shoes.
• Cynthia asked Heath if she could cook something herself, and he agreed.

Cynthia cooked Heath a creamy Slowpoke tail soup, and the two discussed their hopes of getting married. Heath then asked why she had returned from Sinnoh, leaving her reason unrevealed.

• Heath watched as Cynthia prepared a Slowpoke tail, surprised that she planned to use it in a cream soup.
• Cynthia served the soup, and Heath found the Slowpoke tail delicious.
• Cynthia asked Heath whether they would get married, and he answered that they would.
• Cynthia was pleased that Heath shared her view that dating should lead to marriage.
• Heath asked Cynthia why she had returned when he thought she was still in Sinnoh.

Cynthia visited Heath, and the two spent the day exploring Cerulean City after Zoroark disguised her with an illusion. The chapter ended with Cynthia calling Heath’s name beneath the stars by the pier.

• Cynthia showed Heath a photo of a gigantic Gengar and explained that it lived in a mansion after the family who had once owned it died of illness.
• Heath chose to take Cynthia sightseeing instead of opening his food truck for business.
• Zoroark disguised Cynthia with an illusion that changed her appearance and fooled her phone camera.
• Heath and Cynthia visited Cerulean City’s attractions, then admired the clear, starry sky near the pier.
• Cynthia called to Heath beneath the stars, and he turned to look at her.

Heath kissed Cynthia on the pier, then spent the night thinking about her. The next morning, he found Cynthia already waiting in his food truck, where she had access to stay.

• Heath took Cynthia's hand and kissed her on the pier, and they returned together.
• Zoroark teased Heath about his progress with Cynthia while Charizard approved of her strength as a Trainer.
• Heath woke refreshed but distracted by thoughts of Cynthia and prepared to visit the vegetable market for Cerulean City's specialty ingredients.
• Heath opened his bedroom door and found Cynthia playing with Ralts on his sofa beside Lugia.
• Heath remembered that he had granted Cynthia full access to his food truck and glared at Zoroark for encouraging him.

Heath prepared hot dogs for Cynthia and his Pokémon, hoping to finish his Cerulean City achievements soon so he could return to Sinnoh with her. After serving breakfast, he asked what Cynthia’s Pokémon liked to drink.

• Cynthia visited Heath in the morning and asked him for a hot dog.
• Heath planned to explore Cerulean City’s vegetable market and specialty ingredients while working toward completing the city achievement.
• Heath made hot dogs with bread, sausage, pickles, lettuce, and Cynthia’s preferred salad dressing, injecting seasoning into the sausage for extra flavor.
• Heath prepared hot dogs and drinks for his Pokémon, though Mew was absent again.
• Heath served Cynthia’s Pokémon their hot dogs and asked what they liked to drink.

Heath shared breakfast with Cynthia and her six Pokémon, impressing her and gradually winning over Garchomp. After breakfast, he took Cynthia grocery shopping in the Qingming drizzle.

• Heath served hot dogs to Cynthia's six Pokémon and ate alongside his own Pokémon, which Cynthia appreciated.
• Cynthia released her Pokémon, and Garchomp's judgment of Heath softened after seeing how thoughtfully he treated them.
• Heath asked the Pokémon what they wanted to drink and used Chef's Eye to identify their preferences.
• Heath explained the challenges of Cerulean City's hot, rainy season and how his food truck protected ingredients from spoilage.
• After breakfast, Cynthia insisted on joining Heath to buy groceries, and they stepped out into the Qingming rain.

Heath and Cynthia visited a market where buyers secretly bid once on unusual goods. When a fossil that could revive into a rare Amaura appeared, Cynthia decided to bid, and Heath searched for the price of a previously sold Amaura fossil to help her choose an offer.

• Heath opened his Wailmer umbrella and entered the market with Cynthia.
• Heath watched a buyer win a Moon Ball made by Master Puro, and Cynthia explained the market’s one-bid system.
• Heath recognized Puro as a Silph Co. employee known for making distinctive Poké Balls and began to leave.
• The host announced an Amaura fossil, prompting Cynthia to place a bid.
• Cynthia hesitated over her offer, so Heath searched for the sale price of another Amaura fossil.

Heath learned that Cerulean City's specialty was poisonous Purple-ringed Octopus, which locals ate raw, and discovered that preparing it required a special license. He left with new information about the octopus but worried that cooking it safely would ruin its flavor and prevent him from completing his task.

• Cynthia won the genuine Amaura fossil at auction after bidding slightly more than the runner-up.
• Heath took Cynthia to Cerulean City's Vegetable Market, where vendors told him that octopus was the city's specialty ingredient.
• Heath learned that locals ate highly venomous Purple-ringed Octopus raw after an experienced chef prepared it.
• Cynthia questioned why people liked eating poisonous foods, and Heath explained that they did so because the foods tasted delicious.
• Heath used his Ingredient Identifier to learn how to remove the octopus's venom, but found that cooking it thoroughly would make its flesh rubbery.

Heath served an elderly former model black sesame tangyuan and let Zoroark chat with her after seeing how much she enjoyed reminiscing. Misty arrived at the food truck, interrupting the quiet morning.

• Heath opened his food truck while Cynthia was away to revive Amaura, and he planned to get her autograph for Misty.
• An elderly woman entered and asked Heath for tangyuan, and he made her black sesame tangyuan.
• Zoroark admired the elderly woman's elegant presence and chatted with her as she ate.
• The elderly woman said she had once been a model and still followed the strict eating and exercise habits she had kept during her career.
• Misty called out to Heath as he checked his phone.

Misty visited Heath’s diner, where she spoke with Grandma Joelle about the challenges of serving as Cerulean City’s acting Gym Leader. Heath gave Misty her Seafood Fried Rice and Cynthia’s autograph, leaving her staring thoughtfully at the words on the signed cover.

• Misty arrived and found Grandma Joelle talking with Zoroark, then told Joelle she had come for an autograph and a meal.
• Heath received the book “On How to Age Gracefully” for serving Joelle and planned to give it to Zoroark.
• Joelle asked Misty about her Gym Leader duties and whether her Pokémon could handle challengers with several Badges.
• Misty admitted she struggled with challengers and still feared Gyarados, though watching Cynthia win the Sinnoh championship had inspired her.
• Heath served Misty Seafood Fried Rice and gave her Cynthia’s autograph on a book cover, and Misty stared at the words on it.

Heath served seafood fried rice to a customer who Zoroark suspected was a food critic, while Misty took encouragement from a postcard she misunderstood as Cynthia’s message. Giovanni then arrived at Heath’s food truck in Cerulean City, leaving Heath curious about his visit.

• Misty read the postcard’s words as encouragement from Cynthia, unaware Heath had chosen it at random.
• Heath prepared a generous serving of seafood fried rice for a well-mannered customer and explained that he had bought gooseneck barnacles to stock for future orders.
• Zoroark spotted manuscripts and a copy of Food in the customer’s briefcase and suspected he was a food critic, but Heath said to serve him normally.
• Giovanni recognized Heath’s food truck and greeted him, and Heath asked whether he was in Cerulean City on business.

Giovanni visited Cerulean City to guide its new Gym Leader, Misty, and Heath served her, gaining a basic affinity for Water-type Pokémon. Giovanni then asked Heath to make him grilled erkuai, leaving Heath to prepare the dish.

• Giovanni explained that Elite Four member Lance had sent him to Cerulean City to guide Misty.
• Misty nervously greeted Giovanni, who reassured her that they could exchange ideas about being Gym Leaders.
• Heath received basic Water-type Pokémon Affinity after serving Misty.
• Giovanni chatted with Granny Joelle, then asked Heath for grilled erkuai.
• Heath agreed to make the dish, noting that he would need time to prepare the erkuai.

Heath made Grilled Erkuai while Mr. Giovanni watched, hoping to learn how it was prepared and recalling a similar dish from his childhood. Mr. Giovanni asked Heath to identify what his mother had cooked, leaving Heath considering the difficult question.

• Mr. Giovanni watched Heath make round pieces of Erkuai and learned how he prepared them.
• After tasting the Grilled Erkuai, Mr. Giovanni realized it was not the dish his mother had made when he was young.
• Misty asked Grandma Joelle why Heath and Mr. Giovanni seemed close, and Grandma Joelle suggested Heath’s cooking and personality helped explain their friendship.
• Mr. Giovanni told Heath about his mother’s mysterious childhood dish and asked what it might have been.
• Heath considered the difficulty of identifying a food from an unclear memory and began to offer a culinary possibility.

Heath used Giovanni’s Memory Fragment and recognized the childhood food Giovanni longed to taste as scorched rice. He tentatively named the dish to Giovanni, who remained unsure because his memories of its appearance and flavor were faint.

• Heath received a specific Memory Fragment after serving Giovanni and went to his Lounge to view it.
• Heath experienced Giovanni’s childhood memory of a woman bringing him a plate of food in a bare, dilapidated home.
• Heath recognized the food’s round shape and crisp, hard texture as scorched rice.
• Heath asked Giovanni about the food, and Giovanni recalled only that it was round and delicious enough to bring him to tears.
• Heath suggested that Giovanni’s remembered dish might have been scorched rice.

Heath served Giovanni crispy rice, helping him recover memories of the food his mother had called Golden Cake during a famine in Kanto. Giovanni savored the childhood flavor, and Heath received an achievement that could sometimes reveal complete recipes from customers’ memories.

• Heath prepared crispy rice for Giovanni to taste while Misty and Grandma Joelle got ready to leave.
• Giovanni tasted the crispy rice and recognized its familiar flavor and texture.
• Giovanni remembered eating his mother’s Golden Cake during a severe famine, when his family struggled to find good food.
• Heath watched Giovanni reminisce and received the achievement Memory Is Also a Seasoning.
• Heath read that his new reward could sometimes give him complete recipes from customers’ fond food memories.

Heath served Mr. Giovanni scorched rice and received a Flavor Purification Potion, then looked into learning how to prepare Purple-ringed Octopus. Zoroark told him about a Cerulean City cooking competition, and its custom-made kitchen utensils caught his interest.

• Heath explained that scorched rice was his best guess for the dish Mr. Giovanni had been craving, and Giovanni said it matched the flavor he remembered.
• Giovanni gave Heath a League-distributed Flavor Purification Potion that could remove saltiness from a dish.
• After Giovanni left, Heath served customers with Farfetch'd and found that online videos skipped the crucial steps for preparing Purple-ringed Octopus.
• Heath concluded that he might need to buy a course or attend a training class to learn how to prepare the octopus.
• Zoroark showed Heath a flyer for a Cerulean City cooking competition offering an Azure Restaurant Badge, five hundred thousand League Coins, and custom-made kitchen utensils; the utensils caught Heath's interest.

Heath tried to persuade Farfetch'd to enter the Cerulean City Food Competition so it could gain confidence and custom cooking utensils, and Zoroark finally convinced it with a threat. The organizing committee approved Farfetch'd’s application and planned to advance it to the round of sixteen to attract attention and pressure the elusive Cooking God of Cerulean City.

• Heath asked Farfetch'd to enter the cooking competition, but Farfetch'd firmly refused despite Heath mentioning the prize money.
• Zoroark threatened Farfetch'd with losing sleep at night, and Farfetch'd agreed to compete.
• Heath thought about sending Little Lugia back, since keeping it with him indefinitely was troubling.
• Anya showed the team leader Farfetch'd’s entry application, and the team leader decided the unusual contestant would draw attention.
• The team leader approved Farfetch'd’s application and told the judges to advance it to the round of sixteen if its cooking was not truly terrible.

Heath entered Farfetch'd in a cooking competition to help it overcome its nerves, while Zoroark hoped for a future contest for servers. As the rain picked up, Mew suddenly returned to Heath's food truck, and Little Lugia told Heath that it missed its parents.

• Heath saw that Farfetch'd's cooking competition entry had been approved and reassured himself that the nervous Pokémon could gain confidence during the early rounds.
• Zoroark asked whether Onion was competing and wondered if it could win the prize money, while Heath explained that he had entered Farfetch'd for its sake.
• Mew flew through the window into Heath's food truck after being caught in the rain, then went to the bathroom.
• Little Lugia told Heath that it missed its parents, and Heath comforted it by rubbing its head.

Heath arranged for Lugia’s parents to take him home and received a large supply of seafood, including Purple-ringed Octopuses. Lugia reunited with his parents while Heath stored the ingredients and considered giving Farfetch'd rotating days off.

• Heath contacted Lugia’s parents, who said they would come soon and agreed to bring him Purple-ringed Octopuses.
• Zoroark lamented Lugia leaving because he was her gaming partner, and Heath suggested they could play online together.
• Lugia’s parents arrived and thanked Heath for caring for their child, who was waiting above the food truck.
• Lugia’s parents left with their child without dining, and Heath opened their gift to find a spatial container full of seafood.
• Heath moved the Purple-ringed Octopuses, bluefin tuna, and other ingredients into his storage room and considered giving Farfetch'd rotating days off.

Heath served Kayako a particularly sweet bowl of rice cake and lotus root starch despite her usual dislike of sweet flavors. Kayako revealed that she wanted it because Shunsuke liked it, while Mieko watched in dismay.

• Heath worried that Farfetch'd worked almost without a break but decided he could not hire a chef for his traveling food truck.
• Kayako asked Heath for rice cake and lotus root starch, which had been hard to find in rainy Cerulean City.
• Heath noticed Kayako's contradictory flavor preferences and made her bowl extra sweet with syrup.
• Zoroark delivered the dish to Kayako, while Mieko asked why she wanted something sweet.
• Kayako said she wanted the dish because Shunsuke liked it, and Mieko concluded that love had overwhelmed her friend.