Recaps

Heath served breakfast to Morty and began a busy day at his food truck in the Indigo League. After spotting a strange yellow ear near a sewer, he heard from Officer Jenny Jing that Feng was worried about him.

• Heath noticed Morty's Squirtle boxers were showing and woke him by bringing him his breakfast.
• A Raticate ran through an alley with a Meowth chasing it, and Heath spotted a strange yellow ear poking out of a sewer.
• Heath served Jianbing Guozi and milk tea to the growing morning crowd.
• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that Feng had been worried and asked for a Jianbing Guozi with extra leek.

Heath sold out of Jianbing Guozi in the bustling Indigo League before Ho-Oh tracked him down and challenged him to cook with a rare Giant Purple Crab. He identified it as an ingredient prized for its roe and began preparing crab roe soup dumplings, though Ho-Oh’s taste preferences did not appear above her head.

• Heath noticed his Chef's Eye Mission progress had reached eighty-eight after brisk sales in the Indigo League.
• Ho-Oh found Heath and threatened not to visit his food truck again if he wandered off.
• Ho-Oh presented Heath with a lively purple crab and challenged him to cook with it.
• Heath used the Ingredient Identifier to learn that the Giant Purple Crab was edible, rare, and best eaten for its roe.
• Heath began making crab roe soup dumplings while Farfetch'd watched, but no taste-preference pop-ups appeared above Ho-Oh.

Heath improvised crab roe soup dumplings using the roe from a large purple crab and pork belly infused with Oran Berry juice, then served them to Ho-Oh. Ho-Oh loved the dumplings, while Heath was left wondering about the reward he received.

• Heath steamed the large purple crab and prepared diced pork belly with Oran Berry juice and honey to replace the crabmeat he lacked.
• Heath made chicken broth aspic with help from Charmander and Snow Snorlax, then mixed it with the crab roe and wrapped the filling in dumpling wrappers.
• Heath finished steaming the dumplings while Ho-Oh waited and complained, and he served her twelve dumplings across four plates.
• Ho-Oh tasted the crab roe soup dumplings and delighted in their rich broth and subtle sweet-and-sour flavor.
• Heath reacted oddly to the reward he received.

Heath received the Gourmet Pokédex after serving Ho-Oh Giant Purple Crab roe soup dumplings, and learned that rare ingredients could be exchanged for Customer Satisfaction points. Farfetch'd’s new training task required him to make the dumplings independently, while Ho-Oh gave Heath a Giant Purple Crab to cook.

• Heath inspected the Gourmet Pokédex and found the Giant Purple Crab entry, which cost 500 Customer Satisfaction points to exchange for.
• Heath deduced that his serving rewards and customer satisfaction counted only when he prepared food for a customer as part of a transaction.
• Heath received a task to teach Farfetch'd to make Giant Purple Crab roe soup dumplings independently, and decided to have him practice with ordinary crabs first.
• Ho-Oh paid Heath with a Giant Purple Crab and warned him to kill it quickly before it escaped.
• Heath had Farfetch'd watch as he prepared the crab roe soup dumplings, and Ho-Oh left after the crab had been steamed.

Heath tasted the Giant Purple Crab roe soup dumplings with his Pokémon and settled on a price of eight thousand League Coins each. He advertised the seven remaining dumplings as a limited sale, drawing attention to his Food Truck as their rich aroma spread.

• Heath worried about how to price the Giant Purple Crab roe soup dumplings and sampled one before deciding.
• Heath shared dumplings with Farfetch'd, Charmander, Zorua, and Snow Snorlax, and discovered the crab roe was exceptionally delicious.
• Heath explained that Giant Purple Crab was rare and cost five hundred satisfaction points to obtain.
• Heath priced each dumpling at eight thousand League Coins and marked the seven remaining ones as limited.
• Heath displayed the blackboard, attracting curious onlookers whose interest grew when the dumplings' aroma reached them.

Heath sold his rare Giant Purple Crab roe soup dumplings for eight thousand League Coins each and quickly sold out after a wealthy woman bought six. He then served the growing lunchtime crowd with Farfetch'd's help, while the crab's next appearance remained uncertain.

• Heath kept the dumplings priced at eight thousand League Coins because Giant Purple Crabs were rare and costly to obtain.
• A wealthy woman bought one dumpling, tasted it, and praised its flavor.
• The woman bought the remaining six dumplings for forty-eight thousand League Coins, paying by card through a reader that emerged from Heath's Food Truck.
• Heath erased the sold-out dumplings from his blackboard and noted that he could not say when he would have more.
• As lunchtime customers arrived, Heath called Farfetch'd over to help him serve them.

Heath packed up his food truck and set out to buy crabs after Charmander claimed he had seen eyes in a sewer. His trip was interrupted by a street shoot for The New Crossbat, whose strange superhero backstory Heath looked up while speaking with Officer Jenny Jing.

• Heath planned to restock ingredients and buy crabs so Farfetch'd could try making Crab Roe Soup Dumplings.
• Charmander spotted what he described as a pair of eyes in a sewer, but Heath suspected it was probably a Grimer.
• Heath drove toward the market and found the road blocked by a crowd gathered around a street shoot.
• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that the crowd had gathered for filming The New Crossbat.
• Heath searched online and discovered that Crossbat was an alien hero who grew stronger in sunlight and gained super-speed in an explosion.

Heath learned edible quartz was a common mineral whose lost preparation method made it valuable, then hired a plumber who looked just like James to fix a broken pipe. Zorua revealed the plumber had secretly left a tiny object inside the pipe, but she did not know what it was.

• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that edible quartz could be bought cheaply at the supermarket, and Heath realized Old Officer Jenny had conned him.
• Heath returned to the kitchen and raised Zorua's weekly pay to two hundred League Coins after she demanded a raise.
• When a cafeteria pipe broke, Heath called for a plumber, and Yongjian arrived looking remarkably like James.
• Heath watched Yongjian repair the pipe, paid him, and decided he had likely mistaken him for James.
• Zorua demanded four hundred League Coins to reveal what Yongjian had done, then said he had left a tiny object inside the pipe.

Heath discovered that James had planted a listening device in the pipe, then learned that Old Officer Jenny could use her Alakazam to remove the toxic components from the quartz. After returning to his food truck, Heath comforted Snorlax, who had been frightened by something he saw outside the window.

• Heath found a listening device in the pipe and reported it to the Officer Jenny on duty, who took it away.
• Old Officer Jenny admitted she had tricked Heath about the quartz, then used Alakazam to wring toxic liquid from the two pieces.
• Heath served dinner to the Officer Jennys and took the quartz back to his food truck, deciding to check it for safety the next day.
• Heath found Snorlax upset after he claimed to have seen something frightening outside the window, while Zorua scolded him.
• Heath checked the brightly lit parking lot, saw nothing, and reassured Snorlax.

Heath tried to find a role for Snow Snorlax by teaching it to make frozen treats, but its uncontrollable roar knocked out a Pikachu outside the food truck. The Pikachu revealed itself as a rare Mimikyu and escaped into a drainpipe, leaving Heath wondering why it was in the Officer Jennys’ parking lot.

• Heath decided Snow Snorlax could help by making ice pops and showed it how to prepare ice cream.
• Snow Snorlax let out a tremendous roar in the enclosed parking lot, hurting Heath’s ears and apparently knocking out a Pikachu.
• Heath ran to help the Pikachu, but it sprang up and fled, tearing its own skin as a strange power made Heath feel dizzy.
• Heath illuminated the parking lot with an Ampharos Lantern and recognized the fleeing Pokémon as Mimikyu.
• Heath suspected Mimikyu had been the frightening figure Snow Snorlax saw outside the window, then returned to comfort Snorlax and added frozen-treat lessons to its schedule.

Heath learned that a group of Exploud and Loudred had settled on a mountain near the Indigo League, and the Exploud leader would only agree to move after a mountain folk song contest. Heath asked Snorlax whether it would help the League, and Snorlax agreed.

• Officer Jenny Jing checked on Heath after Snorlax’s roar was mistaken for a destructive sound wave.
• Officer Jenny Jing explained that the League could not resolve the Exploud and Loudred dispute by force and was negotiating a tunnel to Johto.
• Officer Jenny Jing said the Exploud leader demanded a mountain folk song contest and offered Heath a certificate of merit and a Pokédex if he helped.
• Heath asked Snorlax whether it would enter the contest, and Snorlax agreed.

Heath fell asleep while Zorua held Darkrai’s Nightmare Crystal, drawing Darkrai to his nightmare in the Indigo League. After mistaking Zorua’s dream for the source of the aura, Darkrai entered Heath’s nightmare and found itself trapped in a classroom with an intimidating teacher.

• Heath went to bed early, unaware that Zorua was holding a black crystal.
• Darkrai sensed Heath’s nightmare aura and entered Zorua’s dream by mistake, finding a luxurious castle that seemed to excite the little fox.
• Cresselia confronted Darkrai, and Darkrai denied giving Heath the Nightmare Crystal.
• Darkrai entered Heath’s nightmare while Cresselia waited to give Heath a pleasant dream afterward.
• A stern-faced teacher forced Darkrai to stay in class and study, leaving it unable to escape.

Heath discovered that Darkrai and Cresselia had left him saliva that prevented nightmares and sweet dreams, then realized Zorua had taken a Nightmare Crystal and caused his nightmare. After Snorlax’s thunderous singing knocked Zorua unconscious, Heath prepared to buy ingredients and considered Snorlax’s voice an advantage against Exploud.

• Heath read the descriptions of Darkrai’s Saliva and Cresselia’s Saliva and used the Ingredient Identifier to learn more about Cresselia’s sample.
• Heath found Zorua clutching the Nightmare Crystal and realized it had caused his nightmare.
• Heath sent Snorlax into the bedroom to sing loudly, and Snorlax’s voice knocked Zorua unconscious.
• Heath woke Zorua, who described seeing her dead great-grandfather in a dark world, then told her to get ready to buy ingredients.
• Heath thought Snorlax’s powerful voice could help him defeat Exploud.

Heath bought roe-bearing crabs at the Indigo League market and taught Farfetch'd to prepare them for crab roe soup dumplings. Zorua asked whether the crabs felt pain, while Farfetch'd made progress but still needed help with the filling and wrappers.

• Heath took Farfetch'd to the market and bought ten kilograms of crabs with roe for soup dumplings.
• Zorua asked Heath whether preparing the crabs hurt them, and he recalled a woman who had once protested at his food cart before being hospitalized and sent to a psychiatric hospital.
• Heath told Zorua that the crabs felt pain but continued the lesson, and Zorua confirmed she still planned to eat the dumplings.
• Heath watched Farfetch'd prepare the crab roe filling and pointed out problems with its mixing and seasonings, while Farfetch'd still struggled with the wrappers.

Heath tasted Farfetch'd’s oddly shaped crab roe soup dumplings, then opened his food truck with new dishes on the menu. Morty became the first customer and learned that Heath’s eight-thousand-League-Coin bun from the previous day had used expensive Giant Purple Crab roe.

• Farfetch'd proudly presented crab roe soup dumplings pinched into stars and hearts, and Heath praised their taste while advising him to use more crab roe.
• Zorua finished breakfast and went back to sleep, while Snorlax trained with mountain-song recordings and Heath planned to teach Charmander to grill.
• Heath added crab roe soup dumplings and grilled skewers to the food truck’s menu before dawn.
• Morty arrived, ordered crab roe soup dumplings and milk tea, and asked Heath about a news post criticizing his eight-thousand-coin bun.
• Heath confirmed the shop was his and explained that Giant Purple Crab roe justified the price, causing Morty to choke on his food.

Heath accepted a prepaid order for twenty-seven meals from Morty's department and set up a merchant account with Big Mouth Delivery. Jessie then unexpectedly visited Heath in the Indigo League, and he began preparing sushi for her.

• Morty asked whether Heath could take delivery orders, and Heath agreed to deliver meals if customers paid the fee themselves.
• Morty ordered twenty-seven meals for his department and paid Heath in advance.
• Heath downloaded the Big Mouth Delivery merchant app after Morty left.
• Jessie arrived in the Indigo League on a company business trip and reunited with Heath.
• Jessie asked for sushi, and Heath searched his available ingredients for something suitable.

Heath made warm crabmeat sushi for Jessie, who reflected on her past before leaving. During the morning rush, a popular streamer’s explanation of Giant Purple Crab eased some customers’ doubts about Heath’s prices and introduced him to a rare ingredient, Lava Eel.

• Heath used crabmeat and crab roe to make sushi for Jessie, who said she had been sent on another business trip by Team Rocket’s bosses.
• Jessie ate the sushi, paid Heath, and left with her Pikachu-shaped suitcase after daylight arrived.
• Heath’s food truck drew customers who mocked the eight-thousand-League-Coin Giant Purple Crab Soup Dumplings, and he drove away those who kept pestering him.
• A customer showed Heath a video by the streamer Infinite Delphox explaining that Giant Purple Crab was rare and difficult to catch, making its price seem more reasonable.
• Heath watched the video and learned about the rare Lava Eel, which lived in underwater volcanoes.

Heath served an elderly customer a sweet-and-sour Jianbing Guozi and discovered that the man’s preferred and disliked flavors changed. A new quest then tasked Heath with satisfying the next customer for a Lava Eel, and a lab-coated man arrived as the likely target.

• Heath remembered the elderly customer’s changing flavor preferences and prepared him a sweet-and-sour Jianbing Guozi.
• The old man left satisfied, and Heath saw that spicy had appeared among his disliked flavors.
• Heath triggered the Toriko quest, which promised one Lava Eel for satisfying his next customer with a dish.
• A lab-coated man arrived, and Heath eagerly asked what he wanted to eat.
• Zorua showed Farfetch'd a mysterious purple flyer and teased him about taking him to the place pictured on it.

Heath encountered a customer with no flavor preferences because a taste bud disorder left him unable to taste food or feel chili's heat. Determined to make the man enjoy his Egg Fried Rice by another approach, Heath began planning how to prepare it.

• Heath noticed that the customer's preference and disliked-flavor boxes were blank, triggering a temporary quest.
• Heath asked the customer about his tastes, and the man said he had no preferences or foods he avoided.
• Heath used Persuasion Gum to ask again, and the customer explained that a taste bud disorder had left him unable to taste food.
• Heath learned that the customer felt no reaction to chili peppers, either, and realized flavor alone could not make the meal satisfying.
• Heath set aside his concern about the reward and decided to try a different approach to the Egg Fried Rice.

Heath served Dàkōng Egg Fried Rice enhanced with Yellow-Braised Chicken sauce, spices, and colorful ingredients so its aroma and appearance could make up for his lack of taste. Dàkōng enjoyed the dish, completing Heath’s quest and earning him a Lava Eel, which Heath began researching after learning it rapidly heats up after death.

• Heath prepared a richly colored, fragrant Egg Fried Rice with Yellow-Braised Chicken sauce for Dàkōng.
• Dàkōng ate the rice and found that its aroma gave him a sense of flavor despite his inability to taste.
• Heath completed the temporary Toriko quest, received a Lava Eel, and learned Dàkōng preferred lingering aromas and vivid colors.
• Heath messaged Endless Delphox to ask about the Lava Eel and learned that it heats to 120 degrees within a minute of dying, destroying its body.

Heath considered how to prepare a Lava Eel and agreed to take Farfetch'd to a bar that evening. After lunch, an elderly customer arrived, and Heath recognized the distinctive smell of Chinese herbal medicine on him.

• Heath hesitated over whether he was skilled enough to remove the Lava Eel's bones for his Gourmet Pokédex.
• Farfetch'd gave Heath a flyer for a bar, and Zorua explained that Farfetch'd wanted to go there; Heath agreed to take him that night.
• Heath served the busy lunch rush, sold out of Yellow-Braised Chicken, and saw that he was a little over a hundred Customer Satisfaction short of five hundred.
• An elderly man arrived after Heath was about to close, and Heath offered to make him Jianbing Guozi.
• Heath asked whether the elderly man practiced traditional Chinese medicine, and the man confirmed that he had brewed medicine that morning.

Heath received a high-tech Compendium of Materia Medica after serving Luo Feng, then struggled to figure out how to prepare edible quartz. He planned to practice deboning ordinary eels before trying to make eel rice with the Lava Eel.

• Heath served Luo Feng a Jianbing Guozi, and Luo Feng accidentally took his pulse and remarked that he was healthy.
• Heath received a copy of the Compendium of Materia Medica, whose pages displayed projected text and plant models, including an entry for Rooting Grass.
• Heath returned to the Officer Jennys' Dormitory Area and tried boiling, deep-frying, and grilling edible quartz, but none of the methods changed it.
• Heath put the edible quartz away and decided to practice deboning ordinary eels before attempting eel rice with the Lava Eel.

Heath followed a fashionable stranger to the Dicky Twister bar after struggling to find it in the Indigo League. Inside, he discovered it was a flamboyant bar full of men in bunny girl outfits and realized something was seriously wrong with the place.

• Heath took Zorua and the others out into the lively Indigo League at night and spotted an Alolan Exeggutor selling egg fried rice.
• Heath searched for Dicky Twister, checked Farfetch'd's flyer, and accepted directions from a fashionable man who claimed to be a longtime regular.
• The man led Heath to a discreet building, where two burly doormen greeted him and playfully slapped his butt.
• Heath entered the bar with Zorua and noticed the man lying flushed in someone's arms among crowds of people and burly bunny girl waiters.
• A waiter in a bunny girl outfit welcomed Heath to the Big Bird Twirl-Twirl Bar, and Heath realized the bar was not what he had expected.

Heath punished Zorua for accidentally bringing him to a bizarre bar, then returned to the food truck and noticed Charmander’s growing muscles. The next morning, he discovered Zorua, Farfetch'd, and Charmander trying to make him breakfast, which ended with a burnt egg landing on Charmander’s face.

• Heath ordered juice at the bar after Zorua led him there, and Zorua panicked at the Pokémon-only services on the menu.
• Heath left the bar with Zorua and docked a little over a week’s wages from her pay.
• Back at the food truck, Heath excused Farfetch'd and noticed Charmander’s muscles were developing as he exercised.
• Heath went to bed, then woke to find Zorua, Farfetch'd, and Charmander missing from the room.
• Heath found Zorua attempting to fry an egg while Farfetch'd watched and Charmander exercised, and the burnt egg landed on Charmander’s face.

Heath practiced deboning eels and prepared kabayaki for eel rice, then served a regular customer an unusually sour Jianbing Guozi. The old man’s preferences changed again, and Heath was surprised when his Customer Satisfaction increased by a second point from the same customer.

• Heath reassured Zorua after her attempt to fry an egg went badly and made breakfast for his Pokémon.
• Heath bought eels and practiced deboning them, improving his speed but still taking more than a minute on his second attempt.
• Heath prepared the eel as kabayaki and set it aside to make eel rice when a customer ordered it.
• The old man asked Heath for a Jianbing Guozi that was as sour as possible, despite sourness not matching his listed preferences.
• Heath noticed the old man’s preferences had changed and discovered that his Customer Satisfaction had risen by another point.