Kamogawa Food Detectives

This is more a collection of stories about this tavern in Kyoto that is also a food detective agency. Visitors find the agency because they long for special foods they tasted in the past, but all the stories are tales about life more than anything else.

Very in line with other Japanese contemporary novels, the writing is beautifully focused customs and details. You could say this is a uplifting version of "Before the Coffee Gets Cold"

This book was very Japanese: obsessed over the smallest details of recipes - where the potatoes come from or the size of breadcrumbs in millimeters. Each recipe found by the detective brings with it a back story which is heartwarming.