WELCOME!

Hi Everyone!

My name is Caroline and welcome to Pittsburgh Otaku.

The reason why I started this blog was because my best friend Emily has gone to Japan.

She’ll be studying for an entire year at J.F. Oberin University in Machida, Tokyo, Japan.

Needless to say I’m going to miss her dreadfully, going from talking everyday on Skype to about once a week is hard to do.

I wanted to stay part of my best friend’s life, and honestly had a hard time coming up with an idea. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks.  I was asking her how she’d be handling meals while she was in school there, thinking there’d be cafeteria’s  like there are in colleges in the U.S.. She wasn’t all that sure but thought she’d mostly be on her own in the food department. Now I just love to cook…and eat…hey how do you think a plump girl like me gets so fluffy? The idea of my bestie being stuck in Japan without much Japanese cuisine background bothered me; I had to think of something. So I came up with Pittsburgh Otaku.

I figured Emily could learn some simple Japanese food and at the same time I’d be helping out my fellow Pittsburgh Otakus, hey I can’t be the only otaku in Pittsburgh.

Here I’ll post pictures of food I cook along with the recipe and any tweaks that can be done to the meal being shown. Most of them will be Japanese but I will branch out after a while. I’ll explain the ingredients and try my best to describe what they taste like.

So while my bestie is living every otaku’s dream, here we’ll bring some Japan to Pittsburgh J

Things you’ll see at Pittsburgh Otaku:

1.      Recipes: the whole reason why we’re here. Japanese, Korean, American, Brazilian, the list goes on.

2.      Crafts: knitting, crochet, embroidery, I’m a sucker for all of them; I’ll share some of my work and hopefully a pattern or two.

3.      Snack Reviews: Sometimes when I go to the Korean or Japanese grocery stores in my area I can’t help myself. I’ll pick up candy, chips, crackers, drinks, if it’s got a fun looking package I tend to buy it. I’ll post pictures of the snack and let you know what I think, maybe you’ll go try it yourself J

4.      Beauty Products, I won’t lie, I’m a total addict for Shiseido, Tony Moly, and Dr. Jart. Slowly I’ll put up some reviews of products and some tips I find for example the double cleanse.

5.      Weight Loss: Last but definitely not least I’ll be blogging my journey to a thinner otaku. Incorporating Japanese food and increasing my walking will hopefully defluff this super cupcakey otaku. Please feel free to join me on this experiment. We may not live in Japan but we can surely try to mimic some of their healthy lifestyle.

I hope you enjoy your visit at Pittsburgh Otaku.

Please feel free to ask me questions and make requests.

Thank you J

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