Does an actual Asian neighborhood need an Asian-esque “food hall”? Yup, if the nabe is the area around chaotic Canal Street where decent edibles are scarce, beyond the mobbed Excellent Dumpling House around the corner.

The just-opened Canal Street Market (265 Canal St., between Broadway and Lafayette Street) assembles a dozen mostly first-rate food stands under a high ceiling in a 12,000-square-foot, clean-lined, wood-and-brick noshing arena. It’s a refuge of sanity from Canal’s traffic-clogged clash of “spas,” fake Rolexes and sidewalk-crawling crustaceans.

Skip same-old Fresh & Co. and make a beeline for Nom Wah Kuai, a satellite of Doyers Street’s famous Nom Wah Tea Parlor. Here, $11 buys a crispy chicken rice bowl bursting with juicy meat, tea egg, cabbage and pickles — a fully-realized whole meal.

At Korean barbecue stand Oppa (which calls its style “next-level kimchee”), mayonnaise-y “oppa sauce” mellows the killer kick of fiery, stir-fry pork in a soft taco — absurdly satisfying for all of $4. “Black belt” ramen at Kuro-Obi ($13) is a miso- and mushroom-textured brew of velvety chicken soup — not pork broth as at other Ippudos — laden with thin-sliced, marinated chashu pork and ultra-thin “zuzotto” (slurping) noodles.

Unfortunately, you’ll have to slurp fast — there’s no place to sit anywhere in the hall. Tables are stand-up only. But it’s a happy trade-off for clean toilets, a Canal Street novelty as welcome as decent dumplings.