Happy 26th Birthday to our babee @renaissanceroxy ❤️❤️❤️
So proud of all you’ve accomplished in the past year and know there will be many more blessings to come.
So happy we are able to celebrate YOU, all together again as a family. Love you so much!
This Saturday marks something special for us 🌙
It’s our first time at the Queens Night Market as Sampaguita — and the debut of our Silog Bar.
We’re bringing the food we grew up on —
the breakfasts we woke up to, and the merienda we came home to.
🍳 Silog Plates ($6):
Tapsilog
Corned Beef Silog
Shredded Chicken Sisig Silog
Tortang Talong Silog
🥥 Buko Pandan ($5)
Light, creamy, and the perfect way to cool it down
We’ve been putting in the work for this, and we’re really excited to finally share it with you.
📍 Behind the Hall of Science, Queens
🕓 Saturdays | 4PM–12AM starting April 18
Come hungry.
Almusal. Meryenda. Always.
What a night ✨
Grateful to have been part of the Queens Night Market Press Night at the Institute of Culinary Education. Incredible hosts, amazing organizers, and a room full of press, creators, and fellow vendors bringing so much energy.
We got to share our food, connect with so many amazing people, and the feedback has us fired up. Truly overwhelmed by the love and support.
This is just the beginning. We’re coming in strong this Saturday.
📍 Queens Night Market – Flushing Meadows Corona Park
🗓 Opening Night: Saturday, April 8
See you there 💛🔥
#QueensNightMarket #MeryendaNiMyrna #SilogBar #NYCFood #FilipinoFood
The first photo was taken in the 1980s on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59).
But our family’s story in America started earlier.
In the 1970s, like many Filipinos at the time, my father joined the U.S. Navy and came to the United States. My mom followed soon after, and a few years later my grandparents immigrated as well. As seen in the following photos.
Back then, the Navy was one of the few paths Filipinos had to come to America. Thousands applied every year — sometimes over 100,000 applicants for only a few hundred spots — hoping for the chance to build a new life and eventually earn U.S. citizenship.
Leaving the Philippines — the only home they had ever known — and starting over in a completely new country was far from easy.
My parents did their best to raise my brother and me to feel comfortable in the American world outside our doors. But inside our home, being Filipino was always important.
And the biggest way we held onto that was through food.
I grew up waking up to the smell of garlic fried rice, fried eggs, and some kind of ULAM or main dish such as a protein. What I now know as SILOG were just normal morning and afterschool meals for us.
Those simple meals are exactly what inspired the SILOG plates we’re serving today.
Sampaguita – Meryenda ni Myrna is a tribute to my mom’s recipes and to the home my parents and grandparents built here — in a place that must have felt so unfamiliar at first — all so their children could have more opportunities.
And through it all, they made sure we never forgot where we came from.
🌼 Always
Almusal • Meryenda • Family
Another year at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and somehow it gets better every time.
Seeing our Miami loves and proudly representing our Filipino American roots was everything. 🇵🇭✨
Sharing our family takes on regional favorites — San Pablo, Laguna Buko Pie and our Ube Flan Cake — and telling the stories behind the flavors is why we do this.
Grateful to @foodnetwork@sobewff@leeschrager@a21presents and @fiuhospitality for always creating space for us to share, educate, and celebrate Filipino ingredients and desserts.
We’re just getting started for 2026!
Shoot us a DM — and don’t forget, we ship nationwide. 📦💜
#SOBEWFF #FilipinoFood #FilipinoDesserts #Ube #BukoPie
2025, what a roller coaster ride you were. There was a point where I thought we wouldn’t make it to see the end of the year. Lots of different scares. Lots of diverted plans. Lots of uncertainty. Lots of bumps in the road. Lots of frustrations. And a glimpse of almost losing it all.
Then before I realized it, there was healing. There were glimmers of light. Opportunities. New friends. New partnerships. New journeys. Growth. Renewal.
And through it all, there was always family. Family that I am always grateful to blessed with.
Thank you 2025 for reminding me of what’s important and for guiding and preparing me for what’s next.
Happy New Year everyone! Let’s make this year better than last. Love you all!
My birthday week was one for the books. I didn’t do too much to celebrate personally. But my business partners and I did this….
So proud of us!
Come visit us at @mochiandcreamnyc .
As a mom, I am constantly amazed at how my kids grow and flourish in their dreams. As a dreamer and risk taker myself I am often reminded of how challenging the road less followed can be. And sometimes I worry raising my kids the same, but tonight was a reminder and testament of how passion and hard work can bring you to the cusp of it all. This is just the beginning. I am incredibly proud of our @rxnnlm and her team for all the heart, blood, sweat and tears they’ve put into @maartedoc . The first three episodes truly pulled at my heart strings and spoke to me and many in the audience. Being in the room and seeing all the love, support and response for my babee girl, I shed more than a couple tears. So so proud of you babee.
And if you haven’t yet, please support @maartedoc as they continue on to their next 7 episodes and beyond.
My babees. I am so blessed. So grateful that God gave me the honor of being your mommy. 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you for a wonderful day and Happy Mother’s Day to all the mommies out there. Especially my mom. Without you there wouldn’t be me, there wouldn’t be us.
Wow! What an amazing night!!!
Thank you to everyone who came out last night to celebrate my twinsie, Barry and my birthday!!! Thank you to Kalye for hosting us! It was such a blast!!!
With that being said…or what I was going to say during my speech but I started choking up and cut it short…
I’m not a very public person in regard to things I go through. Not many people have known but it has been a very up and down year for me health wise, mentally and business wise. Lots of extreme ups and downs. But I am so grateful to everyone who has been alongside me every step of the way. I am so grateful to those who have come through and really given me grace, and to those who love and support me throughout. I am thankful to my wonderful kids who I love fiercely and are so proud of. You all hold such special place in this Mama Keyks heart. 🫶🫶🫶
You have no idea how much I love you all.
Here’s to another year ahead. One I have faith in and high hopes. ❤️❤️❤️
And a very Happy Birthday again to my twinsie, Barry!!! Love you kambal! 😘😘😘
