Recipe for Yakitori - Skewered grilled chicken

Ingredients for Yakitori - Skewered grilled chicken:
Chicken thighs: without bone and skin
Japanese leek
(negi*), leek, or green onion
Soya sauce
Mirin* or sake*
Sugar

Honey or maple syrup
Small wooden spears

Yakitori - Skewered grilled chicken preparation instruction:
Mix together 4
tablespoons of soya sauce, 3 tablespoons of sugar, a little bit of honey or
maple syrup, a little bit of mirin and water, and heat it up until it's
homogenous.

Cut the chicken thighs into about 3x2x2cm large
pieces.

Put the chicken pieces into the already prepared sauce,
and let it stand for a while.

Cut the leek or green onions in about
3 cm long pieces.
Spear three or four pieces of chicken and some leek
on each wooden stick.

Grill them, or use the oven at 200 degrees
celsius. (You may want to wrap the wooden sticks with aluminium foil;
otherwise, they may burn off.)