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[stvlti]

From Cat-ch 'Em All Café on AO3

“If you hadn’t appeared, I’d still have been fine.” Tim waved his hand dismissively like he hadn’t almost gotten the crap beaten out of him. “Now, are you here for the new specials on the menu? There’s the all-new Alolan Raichu pancakes, of course, but we also have a discount on the popcorn Torchic and new flavors of Pikabuns—”

“Tim, listen to me,” Jason clamped his hand down on the cafe owner’s shoulder. “Those guys are gonna be trouble, I can smell it. And I can’t be here all—”

“I know.” Tim smiled at him firmly, steel beneath his gaze. “I trust you, Jason.”

The other day I read this JayTim fic where Tim runs a Pokémon-themed cat café, and I just had to draw the lovingly-crafted menu in it.

Also it's the first fic to somehow get me reading a coffee shop AU in this fandom and actually enjoy it too so, that has to count for something.

The menu featured here: i took some liberties with the exact recipes, but if anyone’s interested...

Togepi custard tart - based on Portuguese egg tarts

Clamperl milk tea - blueberry-flavoured bubble tea with original Taiwanese tapioca pearls

Alolan Raichu soufflé pancake - Tim referred to them as “all-new Alolan Raichu pancakes” only, but if it’s new and in a Pokémon-themed restaurant then it’s gotta be something trendy from Japan I reckon 😎 hence soufflé pancakes, which are the next big thing in East Asia right now. they’re thicc and extremely fluffy things and they resemble a chonky Raichu much more than regular pancakes do.

Popcorn Torchic - another item where the authors didn’t specify the type of popcorn chicken they were going for, but the Taiwanese popcorn chicken (鹽酥雞) is my favourite variant of it so consider this my love letter to Taiwanese food :’)

Pika-buns - these are based on the Japanese/Korean mochi bread balls, they’re about the size of a toddler’s fist and they’re crunchy outside with a soft, chewy, mochi-like centre. the Pikachu ears are stuck on after baking with specially-designed toothpicks; the face is painted on with food colouring. in my head, Tim got started on the mochi cheese buns first, then added the sesame variant, and now adds the strawberry variant - hence i added the little “3.0″ at the end there in the food name since there are 3 flavours to this food series, but all of this is entirely my invention since Tim just refers to it as “new flavors of Pikabuns”. wrt to the strawberry centre: normally Japanese/Korean mochi buns don’t really contain fresh ingredients, but the matcha & red bean variant does contain real azuki beans in it so i figured what the hell ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(updated to add the recipes’ specifics on 04 Feb)