If you had a dollar for every Pan-Asian dinner you’ve eaten, you could buy the island of Phuket.

If you had a dollar for every Pan-African dinner you’ve eaten, you’d have a dollar.

And that’s only as of today, when Merkato 55 opens.

It’s the latest from Aquavit superchef Marcus Samuelsson, who was born in Ethiopia and grew up in Sweden. Named after the food market in Addis Ababa, the vast, two-story space features African themes (animals, mud huts, colonial maps) and some surprises (proverbs carved into tabletops, poems sculpted into steel).

Samuelsson treats Africa like one big supermarket, picking ingredients from all over and inventing new dishes. Try kidogo (“small bits” in Swahili) like coriander chutney or shrimp chili sambal, followed by merguez with corn pap, oysters with harissa mignonette, or jerk pork belly with radish and mango.

Go ahead, eat with your hands.

You’ve earned it.

Merkato 55, 55 Gansevoort Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets (212-255-8555).