An Asian supermarket in Queens sold a winning Powerball ticket worth a staggering $256 million on Saturday — a revelation that led the store manager who peddled the golden ticket to say, “I have a lucky hand!”
The new multimillionaire — who hit the lottery at Hua Lian Supermarket on Parsons Boulevard in Flushing, the New York Lottery said — still hasn’t come forward to claim the big haul.
But Jenny Fang, the 40-year-old worker who sold the ticket, was incredulous that she’s the one who handed it over.
“I’ve never sold a winning ticket that big,” she told The Post on Monday. “I have a lucky hand! It’s amazing … it was a total surprise.”
The win marks the first in the state since 2020.
But even though word spread on WeChat — the messaging and social media app popular in China — the lucky buyer is still unknown.
“I don’t know who bought the ticket. They haven’t come in to claim it,” Fang said. “Ninety percent of the people in this neighborhood are Asian, so an Asian person bought it, I think.”
Whoever that is, they’re in for a pleasant surprise — they’ll pick between a life-changing $256 million in payments over 30 years or a lump sum of $123.5 million, before taxes.
It’s good news for the supermarket, too — other gamblers are already flocking in, hoping for a taste of Hua Lian’s extraordinary luck.
“I heard the news that they sold the winning ticket, so I looked up the address and came from the Bronx to buy a Powerball and Mega (Millions) ticket,” Ruben Vasquez, 73, said.
Vasquez could use some luck, having purchased losing lotto tickets for years.
Still, he grabbed two more Monday — a Powerball and a Mega Millions — but only after he rubbed a hanging, red-and-gold decoration with the Chinese character for “good fortune” printed on it.
“You never know where your luck is going to be,” Vasquez said. “You just have to hope you find it one day. I want to find out if my luck is over here too.”
“I’m hoping I can be one of the lucky ones. You never know.”
