When I was a kid, the first term I heard that referred to their race was Oriental. If I was talking to them or around them, I might say East Asian or Chinese. Americans also generalize and say Chinese when referring to Orientals in general. Maybe because other than Oriental, there is no real name for their race in English. Mongol, the original term is also offensive because not all Orientals are Mongolian. Mongolians actually look different than most other Orientals. Mongolia is North of China and Mongolians conquered Central Asia so they are mixed with the original white Central Asians.
Or people can say yellow when talking about Orientals like we say white for us. But no people are literally white or yellow. Literally white means someone with skin like Michael Jackson, UMM HMM. It's not a normal healthy skin color. Out of all the racial colors, brown is the only one that correctly labels the color of the skin people are referring to. Blacks are also really dark brown. White and Orientals are really peach colored, some tanner than the others. Some Orientals actually look brown. I guess it's because they come from an area closer to the Equator. But brown used in place of a race name only correctly refers to the race of the Aborigines and some Indians and other people from islands in the Indian Ocean, as far West as Madagascar.