午餐肉

午餐 is lunch, and 肉 is meat, so 午餐肉 is lunch meat.

午 is noon and 餐 is meal, so 午餐 lunch is noon meal. Similarly, 早 is early, so 早餐 is early meal, i.e. breakfast.

In Hong Kong, as in places like Hawaii and the Philippines, Spam) (and its generic knockoffs known in English as luncheon meat) became popular after World War II and was integrated into the local cuisine, particularly in cha chaan teng dishes, such as sandwiches, spam fried rice, spam ramen, macaroni and spam...

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茶餐廳

Yale:

ńgh chāan yuhk

Jyutping:

ng5 caan1 juk4