Chapter Summaries

Heath arrived in Pewter City and learned that its science museum would revive a fossil Pokémon in three days. He visited Officer Jenny Jing and offered to cook dinner for the busy officers.

• Heath entered Pewter City after the Diglett traffic jam cleared and saw a notice about the museum’s upcoming fossil revival.
• Heath wondered which fossil Pokémon the museum would revive as Little Red explored the city and enjoyed being petted.
• Heath visited Pewter City’s Officer Jenny Unit, where he learned from Jing that miners and their Pokémon caused the officers trouble.
• Heath offered to make dinner for the busy Officer Jennys, and Jing welcomed him to park in their lot.

Heath shared dinner with the Pewter City Officer Jennys, learned about local dangers and attractions, and asked about the city's special ingredients. He discovered that rare Ore Rock Bugs might be worth investigating for his Gourmet Pokédex.

• Heath cooked dinner for the Pewter City Officer Jennys, and Officer Jenny Jing praised his food and passed along Sister Feng's recommendation.
• Officer Jenny Jing warned Heath about the protective Miners Association, Team Rocket, and the local Squirtle Squad gang.
• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that Pewter City's main attractions were the Pewter Science Museum and Rock Park.
• Heath asked Mr. Maerguy about local ingredients, and Mr. Maerguy identified rare Ore Rock Bugs found in mineral-bearing rock strata.
• Heath wondered whether Ore Rock Bugs could be added to his Gourmet Pokédex.

Heath searched for high-quality ingredients and hoped to find the rare Ore Rock Bug needed for Pewter City's specialty achievement. After a mischievous morning with Mew and a successful market visit, he ran into Miss Jessie and wondered why she was in Pewter City.

• Heath realized that finding an Ore Rock Bug would be difficult and decided to check Pewter City's markets regularly.
• Mew pranked Heath by drawing a lifelike pink Mew on his face, but Heath washed it off the next morning.
• Heath drove to produce shops recommended by Mr. Marugai and bought high-quality ingredients for dishes he planned to serve.
• Heath met Miss Jessie at the market and wondered whether she had come to Pewter City on a Team Rocket mission.

Heath made grilled erkuai for Jessie and his Pokémon in his food truck in Pewter City. Jessie explained that she was there to buy local specialties for the upcoming Blissey Festival, and Heath planned to return to Viridian City for the holiday after serving customers in Pewter City.

• Jessie asked Heath why he had come to Pewter City, and he explained that he was traveling after helping Silph Co. with publicity in Mossdeep City.
• Heath prepared grilled erkuai, a snack from Yun Province, and Jessie enjoyed the unusual breakfast.
• Jessie told Heath her bosses had sent her to Pewter City to buy local specialties for the approaching Blissey Festival.
• Heath decided he would return to Viridian City for the festival, though not yet, and learned Jessie was still traveling without a regular team with James.
• Heath finished breakfast and prepared to open his food truck for the day in Pewter City.

Heath served a customer a rice bowl with assorted balls while teaching Farfetch'd to cook, then welcomed three members of the Miners Association to his food truck. The men asked for cheap food in large, filling portions.

• Heath opened his food truck near Pewter City's Trainer School and served a young woman who recognized him from the Technology Expo news.
• Heath prepared a rice bowl with assorted balls and taught Farfetch'd how to make the different balls.
• Zoroark delivered the meal, and Heath gained another satisfaction point as the woman enjoyed it.
• Three broad-shouldered men from the Miners Association entered Heath's food truck and sat at an out-of-the-way table.
• The bearded man asked Heath for something cheap and filling, and Heath nodded that he had food like that.

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.