She’s no chicken.
A plucky Queens mom of five fought off a bandit who tried to rob the chicken restaurant where she worked — by grabbing a kitchen knife in each hand and telling him to scram, the woman and cops said Tuesday.
Ruby Shehzadi, 39, was cooking French fries at the Chick In restaurant in Queens Village — her first job ever — at 11:45 p.m. Sunday when the bandit whipped out a sharp object and held it to her co-worker’s neck, the worker said.
Holding one in each hand, horror movie-style, she told him to get lost, she said.
“I said, ‘Go, go!’” Shehzadi recalled. “I was crying. My whole body was shaking.”
It scared the thief so much, he bolted empty-handed, she said.
Shehzadi, who immigrated from Pakistan, started working at the restaurant three months ago after her husband had a heart attack, she said.
“She is such a gentle person. She is the last person that you would expect to do that,” said her boss, Rosina Ishaq, 32.
Shehzadi is still stunned by how brave she was in the moment — but said she’s been freaked out ever since.
“I’m so nervous. I haven’t slept since Sunday,” she said.