Take a big bite of Slime.
Family Mart to offer 'Slime' meat buns in November
The steamed meat bun "nikuman" shaped like the character "Slime" from the popular videogame Dragon Quest series. The photograph was taken on Sept. 5. (Shu Nomura)
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