It sounds slightly chaotic, but Wayne Chang’s latest kitchen experiment might have just created a new South African favourite.
Cape Town, South Africa (08 October 2026) – What happens when a South African braai favourite meets one of Asia’s ultimate comfort foods?
Apparently, you get boerewors fried rice, and according to food content creator Wayne Chang, it actually works.
Wayne, who creates food content under the name Munchin Mash and has built a following of more than 100,000 people, has taken two very different food traditions and thrown them into the wok.
The result is exactly what it sounds like: fried rice loaded with boerewors, with a few clever tricks along the way. And no, he didn’t simply chop up some boerewors and chuck it in at the end. Wayne decided to cook the sausage in two different ways, giving the dish two completely different textures.
He started by cooking half of the boerewors intact before removing it from the pan. The other half had its casing removed and went into the pan more like mince, where it was allowed to cook until beautifully browned and crispy.
Once the meat had rendered out all that glorious boerewors fat, diced onions joined the party. Then came spring onions, garlic, white pepper, a little Aromat and Worcestershire sauce And then, of course, the rice.
Wayne recommends using day-old rice, which is one of those fried-rice rules worth remembering if you want the right texture rather than a plate of something slightly resembling rice pudding.
Once the rice was tossed through the crispy boerewors and onions, he brought the other half of the sausage back into the pan, this time sliced into pieces.
A final handful of spring onions went over the top, everything got one last toss and just like that, boerewors fried rice was born.
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He particularly liked the decision to cook the boerewors in two different ways, saying it created two textures and almost two different flavours that came together with the fried rice.
And honestly, that sounds like the kind of experiment South Africans could get behind.
Boerewors and fried rice might not be the combination anyone had on their 2026 food bingo card, but Wayne has made a pretty convincing case for putting them in the same pan.
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