Lamb Scorpion (Lamb Spine Hot Pot), a Lu cuisine, the main ingredient is a complete sheep vertebrae with tenderloin and spinal cord, which is commonly known as Lamb Scorpion because of its resemblance to a scorpion.

Sheep scorpion is low in fat, low in cholesterol, high in protein and rich in calcium. Easily absorbed, have nourishing Yin and kidney, beauty and aphrodisiac effect. Often used to make clear soup hot pot, delicious flavor.

Origin of the name

Song Dynasty literati Su Shi was relegated to Huizhou due to political struggles, and the local market was sparse, with a lack of commodities, but a sheep would be killed daily. Because Su Shi was a disgraced and criminal official, he did not dare to compete with local dignitaries for good mutton. So Su Shi privately instructed the person who killed the sheep to leave him the spine bones of the sheep that no one usually wants, and there was also a little bit of mutton between those bones. Take home, Su Shi first sheep spine thoroughly boiled through, and then pour wine on the bones, a little salt, baked with fire, waiting for the bones slightly charred, can be eaten. Su shi all day long in the sheep spine between picking and picking broken meat, claiming to be like eating seafood shrimp and crab feeling and flavor. Su Shi about three, five days to eat a sheep spine, and in the family letter to tease his brother Su Zhe, you have a good life, years of public money to eat and drink, eat a good lamb, the teeth are sunk in, but also can not touch the sheep bones, how can understand this delicious it? At the end of the letter, Su Shi also humorously said, this kind of eating is good, just every time they pick the meat on the bone light, around the side of a few dogs are very unhappy.