What would be the closest ‘meat product’ to Spam where you live?

Far as I remember, Spam is some kind of ham blend, maybe more basic than bratwurst, let’s say.

honestly you can get something very similar here, ma-ling comes to mind. its phillipino but its shipped all over the world

www.asiamarket.ie/maling-luncheon-meat-340g.html

One thing I miss to hell where I live now is a chain Asian supermarket named “H-Mart.” I’m trying to remember back whether they might have had this…

At the same I see it’s actually a product of Holland?

A lot of Asian markets, at least around me, carry kind of a lot of spam and spam-like products (often called something like “luncheon meat”)

I think a lot of it has to do with the US military having a big presence in Asia during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc. and still having sizable bases in Japan and Korea. They brought spam with them and it made its way into the local diet from there.

It’s big in a lot of Pacific islands for basically that same reason.