Divine Inspiration

I'm assuming that most of us are familiar with the plastic spoon that comes with rice cookers and is used to serve the rice. Well, we've just spent two nights on a little island near Hiroshima (Miyajima Is.) and it claims to have invented this spoon. The story is that a monk dreamt the design of the spoon and taught the islanders to make the spoon.

So there you go, next time you're using a rice spoon, thank a late Japanese monk and whichever Deity you care to attribute his inspiration to.

Oh and the Islanders have made the world's biggest rice spoon too
see below.