Sheep scorpion hot pot in old Beijing is a delicious food. Its ingredients include: a scorpion weighing about 4 kg, appropriate amount of onion, ginger, garlic, salt, edible oil, yellow wine, dried yellow sauce in Beijing, fennel, pepper, white pepper, tsaoko, kaempferia kaempferia, cinnamon, dried tangerine peel, licorice, clove and so on. Sheep scorpion hot pot in old Beijing generally has two flavors: spicy and maotai.

The main ingredient of the scorpion is a complete sheep spine with tenderloin and spinal cord. Because it looks like a scorpion, it is called a sheep scorpion. Sheep and scorpions are often used to make broth hotpot, which tastes delicious.

Old Beijing sheep scorpion hot pot usually takes 6-month-old lambs naturally raised in Xilin Gol, Inner Mongolia as raw materials. Coupled with the scientific formula of herbs, it needs to be secretly made through more than a dozen processes such as soaking, picking, burning, simmering and stewing.