Chapter Summaries

Heath served Yellow-Braised Chicken and milk tea to a busy lunchtime crowd, while remembering his late golden retriever, Loli. After selling out of ingredients, he checked his messages and learned he had completed the beginner Chef's Eye quest.

• Heath spoke with a girl who owned a golden retriever named Loli and recalled his own dog, who had died after more than ten years.
• Heath prepared the girl Yellow-Braised Chicken with rice and served her Burmese milk tea, while declining to pet her dog.
• Heath gave the first customer a complimentary cup of milk tea, which the man enjoyed and which increased Heath's satisfied customer count.
• Heath served a growing crowd as customers bought his food and milk tea, while Zorua stayed in the break room reading novels.
• Heath sold out of his chicken and other ingredients, then checked his messages and received the Chef's Eye (beginner) quest reward.

Heath used the chef’s eye reward and discovered that it revealed customers’ preferred and disliked flavors. After a failed attempt to satisfy a customer with salty milk tea, Nurse Joy Saya arrived and ordered Egg Fried Rice, leaving Heath puzzled by her contradictory taste preferences.

• Heath received the chef’s eye as eye drops, applied them, and gained the ability to see customers’ preferred and disliked flavors.
• Heath made a customer milk tea with added salt, but she showed no clear satisfaction and the intermediate chef’s eye task made no progress.
• Heath realized the milk tea’s condensed milk had kept it sweet despite the salt.
• Nurse Joy Saya visited Heath’s food truck and ordered Egg Fried Rice.
• Heath saw that Saya both preferred and disliked bitterness and considered how to prepare her meal.

Heath made bitter melon Egg Fried Rice to suit Saya's taste, and Saya enjoyed it. She then revealed her plan to challenge the Pewter City Gym and earn her first Badge.

• Heath prepared Egg Fried Rice with tiny pieces of blanched bitter melon for Saya.
• Saya praised the dish, and Heath's quest progress increased by one customer.
• Heath asked Saya about her trip to Victory Road, and she explained that she needed Badges to go farther.
• Saya announced that she would travel to Pewter City in a few days and challenge its Gym Leader for her first Badge.

Heath closed his Food Truck and went to the Officer Jennys' apartments to prepare dinner, with Zorua reminding him that she wanted her weekly wages for novels. While cooking, Heath put Charmander's fire-control talent to work grilling skewers and asked it to cook them evenly without burning them.

• After Saya left, Heath began tidying his Food Truck and agreed to take Zorua to the bookstore after making dinner for the Officer Jennys.
• Heath drove to the Officer Jennys' apartments and explained that his Chef's Eye showed preferences only for customers likely to buy from him.
• Heath released Farfetch'd, Snow Snorlax, and Charmander to help prepare dinner, while Zorua stayed in the lounge sulking.
• Heath asked Charmander to grill meat skewers with evenly controlled flames, crisping the outside while keeping the inside tender.

Heath helped Charmander grill meat before serving dinner to the Officer Jennys, and his cooking impressed them. He learned that Aili’s intense stare came from her eagerness to date, though her powerful Bridge Throw kept potential suitors away.

• Heath watched Charmander grill meat and encouraged him to improve his flame control without charring the skewers.
• Heath served the Officer Jennys dinner, and they praised how delicious his cooking was compared with Old Officer Jenny’s.
• An Officer Jenny explained that Aili was nervous around Heath, then Old Officer Jenny said Aili was eager to date but scared people off by using a Bridge Throw when anxious.
• Heath served himself a generous meal and reflected that the Officer Jennys ate large portions because of their demanding work.

Heath settled into his food truck, then took Zorua out for a walk through the bustling Indigo League so they could buy novels. After encountering two Rainbow Goth girls at a retro sticker photo booth, Heath continued toward the bookstore while wondering whether Zorua was right that they had been trying to attract him.

• Heath returned to his food truck after the Officer Jennys finished eating and prepared to sleep there using the parking space Old Officer Jenny had reserved for him.
• Heath teased Zorua about buying novels, and Zorua reluctantly climbed onto his head so they could go together.
• Heath walked through the brightly lit Indigo League and found a sticker photo booth that reminded him of his childhood.
• Two Rainbow Goth girls offered Heath their style, and he recognized them as this world's equivalent of shamate.
• Zorua suggested the girls had been interested in Heath, and Heath considered whether their flashy appearance was meant to attract a mate.

Heath watched Zorua try a costly ring toss game for a Treasure Pirate King manga collection, but the stall owner’s Ursaring made her lose and left her with only a packet of tissues. Heath then noticed the signed rules required the owner to pay a hundred times a prize’s value if a ring landed on it, and prepared to challenge him.

• Zorua spotted the ring toss stall and eagerly chose the Treasure Pirate King collection as her target.
• Heath warned Zorua that the game likely had a catch, but she insisted on spending her hundred League Coins on one try.
• The stall owner made Zorua sign a waiver, then brought out Ursaring to participate in the ring toss.
• Ursaring took a couple of weak steps and fell onto a packet of tissues, so the owner gave Zorua the tissues as her consolation prize.
• Heath saw that the rules required the owner to pay a hundred times a prize’s value if a ring landed on it, and fixed the man with an unfriendly look.

Heath used Persuasion Gum to get Ursaring to win a set of Treasure Pirate King manga from a crooked stallholder, then learned the books were pirated and the computer prize was a fake. After the stallholder offered to refund Heath and give him genuine volumes, Heath used the gum to uncover his real scheme.

• Heath used Persuasion Gum to get Ursaring to ring a set of Treasure Pirate King manga and won it from the stallholder.
• The stallholder revealed that the manga was pirated and that the Dragonite Computer was a fake that only played games.
• Heath questioned the stallholder about selling counterfeit goods, and the man offered a refund and genuine manga if Heath gave up his second ring.
• Heath used the gum to make the stallholder whisper his true plan, then realized he had nearly fallen for another of the man's schemes.

Heath failed to win the Dragonite Notebook at the ring toss stall, but he bought the manga set and returned to his food truck. The next morning, he shopped for ingredients and decided to develop fried chicken bites as a portable snack for his menu.

• Heath's ring toss landed on tissues, and Shabby Uncle began packing up instead of hearing his pitch.
• Heath learned that only the Dragonite Notebook Computer at Shabby Uncle's stall was genuine, then took the manga set back to the food truck for Zorua.
• Heath woke to find Zorua sleeping on his blanket and got her and his Pokémon ready for the day.
• Heath bought chicken and supplies for Yellow-Braised Chicken and milk tea at the market.
• Heath decided to make fried chicken bites as a convenient snack and bought more ingredients to try the recipe.

Heath opened his food truck near the Indigo League and served breakfast to an elderly man whose food preferences seemed to change as he walked away. A sleep-deprived software engineer named Morty arrived with an old trainer card, ordered breakfast, and fell asleep at a table.

• Heath prepared food at his truck and served an elderly man a Jianbing Guozi with chili sauce and jam.
• Heath noticed the elderly man's preferred and disliked flavors changed after he turned to leave.
• Morty, a programmer who had bought Heath's Yellow-Braised Chicken the previous day, asked what breakfast was available.
• Morty ordered a Jianbing Guozi and milk tea, and Heath returned the trainer card Morty had accidentally handed him.
• Morty apologized for working overtime, sat at a table, and quickly fell asleep.

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.