Caffeinated tonics festively tinted ube purple, buko pandan hotcakes, Rich Tita breakfast sandwiches, It’s easy to see why the lines are long for weekend brunch at Baby’s Kusina + Market, the modern Filipino restaurant and cafe from married co-owners chef Raquel Villanueva Dang and Tam Dang. Villanueva Dang, 37, a first-generation Filipina American who grew up in North Jersey, came to Philadelphia to study at the University of the Sciences before embarking on a 12-year career in the pharmaceutical industry. She left that job in 2022 to travel in the Philippines for a month to visit family, reconnect with her roots, and focus on a pursuit she was more passionate about: food. She and her husband, Tam, a first-generation Vietnamese American and a firefighter in the Air Force, had already launched a pop-up series called Tita Emmie’s in 2018, named for her mother, Ermelita (also known as Emmie, or Tita Baby). Their quest to open the brick-and-mortar space that became Baby’s Kusina was a t...