5 facts to know about these unusual restaurants and bars

From powdered insects to robot chefs, these are some of the quirkiest restaurant and bar openings around the Singapore Airlines network

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The number of cheeses available at any one time at Pick & Cheese in London, which is the world’s first cheese conveyor belt restaurant. Plates are colour-coded, with prices ranging from £2.95 a pop for cheddar and stilton to £5.25 for Lancashire cheese.

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The amount of protein per 100g offered by mopane worms – one of the grubs served up at The Insect Experience, a pop-up restaurant in Cape Town based around entomophagy. Here, the worms are ground into flour for polenta fries, which are served with tomato-chilli chutney.

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The number of robot chefs at the recently opened Hawkee, Singapore’s very first robotic restaurant. The machines dish up beloved hawker favourites such as chicken rice and Hokkien mee (stir-fried noodles braised in dark soy sauce).

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The number of rakia (Balkan fruit brandy) varieties available at Le Lee, a new Macedonian restaurant in Melbourne. Pair them with mains such as selsko meso, a traditional pork and mushroom dish served in a clay pot.

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The number of seltzers – not beers – available on tap at San Juan Seltzery in Seattle, in flavours such as Fuji apple and huckleberry. Hard seltzers are currently having a moment in the United States, with the New York Times dubbing it “the drink of summer 2019”.