Carcar is a nice sized Philippines town, about two hours out
of Cebu City via the south coastal highway. We live on
Mactan and went shopping there for hand made Philippine
furniture, and I believe we found a good furniture maker if
anyone is interested. But before talking furniture business
we ate at the Acacia Grill down the road on the way into Carcar. The restaurant shares a large
parking lot with a whole bunch of outdoor shoe shops.
Carcar has several good shoe makers.
The grill is open air, beneath a huge canopy, next to a
lagoon, with some poor folks living across the way on a hill
in shacks surprisingly clean by Philippines standards,
probably because of the restaurant. Anyway we lunched on
delicious pancit canton noodles, mixed vegetables guisado,
some of the best thin sliced grilled tanguige fish I've
tasted in the Philippines, better even than in Boracay, and
of course garlic rice. We sat next to the railing
verlooking the water. With the refreshing breeze blowing in
from the nearby sea across the lagoon, and an ice cold San
Miguel Pilsen chasing down good grilled fresh fish, I
mentioned to my wife, yeah, this is what the Philippines is
all about for the moment. We paid probably 30% less for
similar food in Cebu City. Go check it out in Carcar, it's
magic to me.
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