I don't eat much rice but when I came to Malaysia, I decided to get with the program and got a 10-kg bag of rice, It worked. The neighbors were impressed

But within a few weeks I started getting bugs in the rice. They looked like small grains of rice, only black, and they moved like ants. I thought it was a bad bag of rice and threw it out when the neighbors were not watching. I got a new 5-kg bag instead. Guess what? Same thing again. I keep the rice in its original plastic bag on a shelf, cool and dry - or as dry as the air gets in Penang.

What should I do now? I remember that around Chinese New Year, they sold these wooden tubs for rice but I didn't get one. Do they have special anti-insect properties?