Sorbetes ni Manong Jelle, a micro creamery run by Filipino nurse Kamille Rodriguez Bories and her Flemish husband, has brought Pinoy sorbetes-style ice cream from the Philippines to Belgium.
Since July 2020, Kamille and Jelle Bories, a Filipino-Belgian couple, have been serving fellow Filipinos and locals of Sint Niklaas, Belgium the traditional frozen treat locally known as the Pinoy classic “dirty ice cream” sold by the “Manong Sorbetero” in the streets.
On January 17, 2022, co-founder Kamille Rodriguez Bories of Sorbetes ni Manong Jelle told CNN Philippines’ Rico Hizon that the company began in their humble abode in Sint Niklaas.
When Kamille requested some traditional ice cream flavors from home, she and her pastry chef husband Jelle began making sorbetes in their kitchen. The couple decided to turn their ice cream-making hobby into a small business in order to make Pinoy flavors more accessible to a wider audience and other Filipinos living abroad who, like Kamille, crave a taste of home.
Mango, durian, purple yam, also known as ube, and other popular Filipino sorbetes take center stage in Kamille and Jelle’s thriving ice cream business.
Sorbetes ni Manong Jelle also sells a variety of Belgian and Filipino fusion flavors from the couple’s colorful Kariton-inspired ice cream bike. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the company is also selling ice cream door-to-door.
Kamille also shared that they now sell at least 80 tubs of ice cream to customers every week, having grown from a small business that began with three clients.
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