My mother moved to Hawaii after my parents split, so that’s when SPAM became more of a staple, at least when I was visiting her. She ran a corner shop in Honolulu for 20-something years and fed the neighbourhood their breakfast with her trays upon trays of SPAM musubi—she’d be sold out by 9AM XD

In the US, we had Top Ramen and another brand name that now escapes me, which is probably why she called it ramen rather than by a Korean equivalent.