だし: stronger than udon dashi but less than tempura dashi.
500ml water, two bags dashi, sake 1 tbsp, sugar 4 tsp, salt 4 tsp, soy sauce 2 rounds. Check flavor. Cool down before soak fried eggplant.
なすび: 6 for 150yen from 道の駅. Normal small long ones. Cut vertically to quarter and fry with thin tempura paste, just enough to cover the eggplant. Soak into sauce soup after fried.
* small round ones are preferred, cut to half only, looks better with half white and half purple color, this time has too much white color.
* fresh eggplants skin keep nice purple color after cooked. Old ones skin color turns black after cooked.
Topping: 茗荷みょうが cut to half vertically and then thin slice. Add to eggplant after soak into sauce soup. And leave it fridge.

Topping 2: green shiso cut to thin string, spring onion cut to 3mm, add to dish before serving. Shiso color will get black if leave it in sauce or fridge for too long.