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Filipino chef behind Dubai chocolate trend creates holiday sundae

The Filipino chef who helped spark the Dubai chocolate craze has turned it into a festive dessert; the trend now has a holiday schedule.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell on BBN Overnight
Published 1:13 AM ET, Friday, October 16, 2026

Photo: Ionenlaser · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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Watch it as it aired: Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell on this story, from BBN Overnight at 1:13 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Interaksyon's, the jokes are ours.

Photo: Dubai chocolate — Photo: Ionenlaser · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

At a glance

First reported by Interaksyon: “Filipino chef behind Dubai chocolate trend creates holiday sundae”.
Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 1:13 AM ET on BBN Overnight, by Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell.
Topics: Dubai.
BBN covered this story before: Paxton partied in Dubai with fraud fugitives, suit says (October 15).

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InteraksyonFilipino chef behind Dubai chocolate trend creates holiday sundae

What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentInteraksyon reports the Filipino chef behind the Dubai chocolate trend has made a holiday sundae, and I have questions, mostly about the first scoop.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI haven't seen the trend, so I'm just looking at a sundae.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, freeze it there. That is the turning point, the moment a chocolate bar stopped being a bar and became a season.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA season.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHoliday season. Watch how the sundae carries that trend all the way into winter without dropping it. That is elite ball security.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFinal score?
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNine point five.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhat cost it the half point? Brock, is there any weather that melts a sundae?

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