Basting Sauce for Yakitori

Each yakitori restaurant in Japan boasts of its own delicious basting sauce, tare. The exact ingredients and preparation methods are kept secret by every chef. But tare is always a mixture of sake (rice wine), mirin (sweet cooking wine), and shoyu (soy sauce). What makes tare so tasty is the way it is treated. During cooking, the grilled chicken on the skewer is dipped into the tare pot. The tare thereby acquires some chicken fl