"Basta, kita tayo 2pm sa Hoseña!" or Sa "Hoseña lang po"... I am certain that one of you guys used these lines once in your "Carmonian" life... I, myself am guilty of that fact, especially in those times that I am not sure where to meet some of my classmates or friends even today. In some instances, if you are commuting from Biñan city, I am again sure that you used the magic word "Hoseña Lang po" to ask the Jeepney driver to stop at that particular intersection in Brgy 5, or "Real".
I remembered that during my childhood days (perhaps I was 5 YO), my Dad (since it's Father's Day) used to ask me to accompany him to buy "Pan De Sal's" on that old bakery in that distinct crossway every morning before I go to school.
I recollected that the most "cool" or should I say "creepy" thing about Hoseña is that there is a square hole in the facade of the store covered by a wooden window and when the person enclosed in that room open it you will not see anything inside but darkness.. Of course, Hindi ko alam kung ano Yun so I find it "mysterious' and "frightening" at the same time.
My Dad will order a bunch of Hot Pandesals (usually 4am in the morning), then the cashier will then tap the window and then there will emerge a hand from inside that creepy room giving her our pieces of bread.. Now that's Amazing!.. XD
My Dad then told me that inside that room is the "Pugon" (oven) that used to bake those goodies and that the eerie hand belongs to the baker and not from an unearthly creature that is lurking in the shadows. (Just like what I am thinking of)
That is our daily routine..., Since that, I know that my mind is just that "superstitious" and now I am confident enough that the "creature" inside that "pugon" room will not take me, I started to manage to buy those pandesals on my own.
It just stops when we moved from Brgy. 1 to Milagrosa and that the bakery is that far in our home to buy pandesals every morning,... That is also the time that my taste buds missed the taste of that salty bread rolls of "Hoseña"...
FAST FORWARD
It was a rainy afternoon yesterday, yet one of my friend Jaypee Lontoc and I decided to continue our mission to decipher another one of the Icons of Carmona- The Hoseña Bakery in Real. Our journey started to interview the current owner of the bakery and the most melancholy part is knowing that the said bread house itself, the building and the whole property is already not connected to the Hoseñas.
Low Spirited, yet we pursue the mission by traveling back in time with the help of the locals, the barangay officials and the remaining on the bloodlines of Hoseñas itself. In our quest, we found out that the bakery became famous because it is one of the three (and oldest) bread houses in Carmona that time, the bakery is the idea of once a decisive baker named Norberto Hoseña originally from Batangas, and was opened between the years 1964-1969.
The story doesn't stop there, we also found out that the property itself does not belong to the Hoseñas but they're just leasing the whole place for an unbelievable low cost from the former Mayor of Carmona, Cesar Casal (1956–1979 in the office).
It's just then that "Mang" Norberto Hoseña passed away last 2010 and his descendants decided to go back in their hometown in Batangas. One of their daughters married a Carmonian and currently living in Milagrosa but cinched to stop the art of bread making. The property has been sold by the Casals last 2011, the "pugon" was demolished, renovated and completely obliterate... So by doing the math, the regime of Manong Hoseña last for almost 51 Years filling the tummies of Carmonians with his trademark recipe of Pan De Sals.
For Desistance
I can say that I am quite upset about what happened to the upshot of the antiquity of the Hosena Bake House, I know that this is not just part of my retrospection but as well as to the consciousness of each Carmonian that once fed by the bread that has molded by Mang Norberto. But, In the back of my head, I know for myself that "change is the only constant thing in this world" and perhaps there is a good reason for that destiny let it happen.
All I can say now, that Mang Norberto did mold, not just the slices of bread that he's selling but, as well as the history of Carmona, and I am also sure that this place, that particular intersection will perpetually be called "Kanto ng Hoseña".
I remembered that during my childhood days (perhaps I was 5 YO), my Dad (since it's Father's Day) used to ask me to accompany him to buy "Pan De Sal's" on that old bakery in that distinct crossway every morning before I go to school.
I recollected that the most "cool" or should I say "creepy" thing about Hoseña is that there is a square hole in the facade of the store covered by a wooden window and when the person enclosed in that room open it you will not see anything inside but darkness.. Of course, Hindi ko alam kung ano Yun so I find it "mysterious' and "frightening" at the same time.
My Dad will order a bunch of Hot Pandesals (usually 4am in the morning), then the cashier will then tap the window and then there will emerge a hand from inside that creepy room giving her our pieces of bread.. Now that's Amazing!.. XD
My Dad then told me that inside that room is the "Pugon" (oven) that used to bake those goodies and that the eerie hand belongs to the baker and not from an unearthly creature that is lurking in the shadows. (Just like what I am thinking of)
That is our daily routine..., Since that, I know that my mind is just that "superstitious" and now I am confident enough that the "creature" inside that "pugon" room will not take me, I started to manage to buy those pandesals on my own.
It just stops when we moved from Brgy. 1 to Milagrosa and that the bakery is that far in our home to buy pandesals every morning,... That is also the time that my taste buds missed the taste of that salty bread rolls of "Hoseña"...
FAST FORWARD
It was a rainy afternoon yesterday, yet one of my friend Jaypee Lontoc and I decided to continue our mission to decipher another one of the Icons of Carmona- The Hoseña Bakery in Real. Our journey started to interview the current owner of the bakery and the most melancholy part is knowing that the said bread house itself, the building and the whole property is already not connected to the Hoseñas.
Low Spirited, yet we pursue the mission by traveling back in time with the help of the locals, the barangay officials and the remaining on the bloodlines of Hoseñas itself. In our quest, we found out that the bakery became famous because it is one of the three (and oldest) bread houses in Carmona that time, the bakery is the idea of once a decisive baker named Norberto Hoseña originally from Batangas, and was opened between the years 1964-1969.
The story doesn't stop there, we also found out that the property itself does not belong to the Hoseñas but they're just leasing the whole place for an unbelievable low cost from the former Mayor of Carmona, Cesar Casal (1956–1979 in the office).
It's just then that "Mang" Norberto Hoseña passed away last 2010 and his descendants decided to go back in their hometown in Batangas. One of their daughters married a Carmonian and currently living in Milagrosa but cinched to stop the art of bread making. The property has been sold by the Casals last 2011, the "pugon" was demolished, renovated and completely obliterate... So by doing the math, the regime of Manong Hoseña last for almost 51 Years filling the tummies of Carmonians with his trademark recipe of Pan De Sals.
For Desistance
I can say that I am quite upset about what happened to the upshot of the antiquity of the Hosena Bake House, I know that this is not just part of my retrospection but as well as to the consciousness of each Carmonian that once fed by the bread that has molded by Mang Norberto. But, In the back of my head, I know for myself that "change is the only constant thing in this world" and perhaps there is a good reason for that destiny let it happen.
All I can say now, that Mang Norberto did mold, not just the slices of bread that he's selling but, as well as the history of Carmona, and I am also sure that this place, that particular intersection will perpetually be called "Kanto ng Hoseña".
