and Filipino-style sorbetes — colloquially known as "dirty ice cream." This cheeky nickname has little to do with the quality of the ice cream, but rather the original perception of it.

Take sorbetes, for instance ... sorbete is a uniquely Filipino dessert that earned the nickname "dirty ice cream" because it is commonly made by street vendors rather than commercial manufacturers.

The city’s growing ranks of gelato and ice-cream shops are bringing frozen Coke and viral chocolates into the mix.