NYMS 2025 Winter Banquet will be at New Phoenix Seafood Restaurant (Sunset Park)

The New York Mycological Society will be having its annual wintertime banquet on Sunday, March 16. It will be at New Phoenix Seafood Restaurant (formerly known as Affable Eatery), in Brooklyn’s Chinatown. It’s a large Cantonese restaurant that is well known for its dim sum and seafood dishes.

Our banquet organizer, Dennis Aita, has chosen a mostly mushroom menu with some seafood and plenty of vegetables. Also there is one beef dish with mushrooms, of course. One dish with no mushrooms is our soup. Our soup will have fish maw (the swim bladder of large fish), a Chinese delicacy that is highly regarded in Cantonese cuisine, more for its texture than its taste.

Selected Menu Included with the Ticket:

Seafood

• Crab Meat with Fish Maw Soup
• Fried Squid with Prince Mushroom in XO Sauce
• Crab Meat with Mushrooms and Broccoli

“Vegetarian” (cooked with chicken stock)

• Assorted Mushrooms with Egg Tofu
• Buddhist Delight with Bamboo Fungus
• Chinese Broccoli with Chinese Liquor
• Bamboo Fungus with Special Sauce
• Braised E—Fu Noodle with Chinese Black Mushrooms and Chinese Vegetables

Meat

• Beef with Mushrooms and Bamboo Shoots

And

• Rice
• Chrysanthemum Flower Tea

We will have large round tables that comfortably seat 10 (some tables may even have 9). If your group is on the large size it is imperative that you get there early if you want your group to sit together! Members can bring up to 2 non-member guests ($10 extra fee for each non-member guest), so if you are purchasing tickets for yourself or anyone who is an NYMS member, please select the “Banquet with the Standard Menu (NYMS members)” tickets for $47. For non-member guests, be sure to select “Banquet with the Standard Menu (non-NYMS members)“.

For the vegetarians/vegans and others with special diets:

Chinese restaurants in general use chicken stock in many of their sauces. For the vegetarians and vegans this restaurant will use a Cantonese Vegan “Oyster Flavored” sauce that contains mushrooms. For those who would prefer not to partake in the standard menu (above), the restaurant will set aside tables for vegetarians. At these tables, vegetarians will choose dishes from the menu and pay after the meal separately. Vegetarians eating separately, please select “Food Not Included: purchasing food separately” tickets.

The restaurant only serves Heineken and Corona beer at a cost of $4 each (not included in this ticket, pay separately with cash). We can bring our own wine (no corkage fees) and any spirits that you like! There will be 2 large bottles of free soda and ice on the tables. They only provide large water glasses. So don’t hesitate to bring your own wine glasses, etc. if you want.

Please, please come prepared to pay with cash for drinks (beer) and for meals if you are seated at the vegetarian tables!!

Cancellation Policy: 5 days before the event.

The deadline to purchase tickets for this banquet is Tuesday, March 11th at 11:30PM. Please do not procrastinate.

We look forward to seeing you at the banquet!