Jalan Mahsuri is one of the major roads in Bayan Baru, Penang. In fact, it was the road to be laid in Bayan Baru when the townshop was established in the 1970's. The road was named after Mahsuri, a rice hybrid which is a cross between a Kedah strain with a Taiwanese strain of rice. The rice itself was named after Mahsuri, the legendery Langkawi maiden.