Comments on: The Old Houses of Carcar, Cebu https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jesma cujardo https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-191094 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:59:34 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-191094 hmm…it so beautiful in here..
i love living here..

]]> By: virginia alcorcon bloomfield https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-158213 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:11:48 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-158213 i been away from carcar for almost 20 years cause i married to an american guy,theres no place like carcar,i remember our mother used to tell us story about our town,our great,great great,great grandfather was a cabisa de mayor during spanish time ,he was one of those people to help kill leon kilat,so our town saved by spanish bombardment,the house in the corner that goes to church ,i couldn’t remember what our mother say the original owner of the house.she said whoever visit the family the maid always wipe off there path.i never get a chance to inside in that house but tell the terrace behind the house was kind of unique to me.im not sure how its look as of today,we must preserved the past without the history,carcar couldn’nt be like today as we are proud of our heritage,no matter what how we explore from another places ,we always love carcar

]]> By: ESTELLA E. https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-153439 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:15:52 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-153439 iam from cebu my brohers live there and i want to go back want to buy a house there if there is a good deal.

]]> By: Mark https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-148798 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:49:41 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-148798 It is really nice to see the beautiful houses of carcar. I hope that the government will do something to preserve these icons.

]]> By: Roxy https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-147734 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:23:29 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-147734 Car car is where my mom grew up and she told me about those old houses that they have,I never thought that it looks so beautiful,I’ve never been there,hope to visit when I am back in Pinas soon.

]]> By: John & Chrisna https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-141018 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:27:22 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-141018 Well, i can say Carcar is the nice place to stay… especially now its a city. I am sure you will miss the chicharon, ampaos and bucharillos…. The lechon is very delicious…. Not only the foods as people mention above the old houses are still exist…
Carcaranonsss

]]> By: raffec https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-136558 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:15:10 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-136558 WOW! carcar is one of a nice place in cebu, especially those ancestral houses that depict the historical backdrop of all houses.

]]> By: Daniel Pancho https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-110726 Fri, 30 May 2008 09:29:40 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-110726 I know Vigan, Ilocos Sur is very popular when it comes to awesome old colonial houses. Well because Pinoys have yet to discover Carcar, Cebu. I remember pigging out on chicharons and looking at the tukos in my grandma’s house having spent 3 years of my high school life in Cebu City (San Carlos – Boys High). When Manilenoes think of Cebu, they think about the city or the beaches of Mactan and Bohol. Some even think that the latter is a part of Cebu itself. Cebu has alot to offer, its time to explore.

]]> By: jerome cabansag https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-101726 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:43:20 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-101726 thanks for the inspiration—this is the sort of place every local tourists must see especially this summer vacation.

]]> By: rey https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-80714 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:38:51 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-old-houses-of-carcar-cebu#comment-80714 i have not been home to Carcar for more than 20 years now. the last time i went inside the old church was when we had requiem mass for my great grandfather.

i miss st catherine school. i never was inside again after kindergarten. the well manicured garden and the lovely grotto. above all the strict discipline that the sisters taught us.

the dispensary was where i had almost all my tooth extracted ( decayed from too much chocolates and sweets). i must say, having the procedure done all at the same time gave me even set of teeth right now. no need for those braces (and unnecessary expense hehehe)and if i remember it right behind the old dispensary is a swimming pool (i never saw it filled with water though).

our old house in Dapdap, once a big structure fronting the municipal cemetery was torn down by a super typhoon in the mid 80’s. what was left is the concrete staircase. that house has made me what i am today- an animal lover. we had chicken free ranging and roosting in the chico trees surrounding the house, a carabao that my grandfather checks every now and then in the middle of the night seeing to it she is not harmed (by snakes)or worst stolen, pigs tied under the trees fattened up for the fiesta.

my fondness for reptiles started when my great grandfather gave me a turtle to take care of. he taught me how to feed it. and everyday, i had to wash the turtle and the jar to which was his home for so many years. dogs were practically everywhere.

looking at the photographs posted above and reading through the comments left by fellow caracaranons made me feel nostalgic. i miss the bocarillo, chicharon, takoy, chico, ampao. above all i miss my childhood days…

i just hope that when i will have the chance to visit Carcar again, it remain as it is as i remembered it. i am carcaron by heart and by birth (i was born on the feast of christ the king and the fiesta of carcar) but i know i am complete stranger to my relatives there.

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