Making a Spanish tortilla without all the calories


Coming from a land where

deep-fried Mars bars and donner kebabs are viable dinner choices, and hangovers are washed away with a fry-up from the local greasy spoon, I am more than reasonably well acquainted with high-calorie foods. It may surprise some people to learn that Japan has plenty of waistline exploding dining options (often in common-sense challenging omori extra large size) too, despite its carefully maintained image of being a land of simple, healthy fare.
Our Japanese-language sister site recently compiled a list of the top ten diet-undermining foods and here we will (in no particular order) introduce a selection that dieters may wish to avoid like the plague, and for non-dieters to indulge in life-enhancing/shortening gluttony with.